Hoover Vs. Roosevelt

Hoover and Roosevelt had very different ideas on how the Depression should be handled. Hoover was a Republican and  Roosevelt was a Democrat. Hoover was brought up in a poor family, and worked almost his entire life. Roosevelt had been born into a very rich family; He grew up with education at Harvard, had his own pony and sailboat, and had everything basically taken care of for him in his childhood by his mother. Roosevelt won because he promised lower taxes and argued that this would give the American people more spending money which would help to economy improve.