The American people were generally extremely dissatisfied with the crumbling economy, mass unemployment, declining wages and profits and especially Herbert Hoover's policies such as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act and the Revenue Act of 1932.
美國人民對於破碎的經濟、大量失業、薪水與收益減少感到極端不滿，尤其是諸如斯姆特-霍利關稅法與1932年的稅收法案等胡佛的政策。