It was well into the Great Depression that Hoover realized that the depression was not going away on its own. He was going to have to think of some ways that he could try to help the depression disintegrate. In a speech that was given by Hoover not long after he realized this he said, "Our people deeply troubled, not only by the turbulent world around us, but all our internal problems which haunt our days and nights." Hoover gave this speech to Americans when he let it be known that he knew that the depression was getting out of hand and that he, as the country's president, was going to do something in way of helping Americans get through the depression. He knew that Americans had become deeply troubled about what would happen as the depression worsened and that worry caused Americans to have social problems and become very stressed out. The depression caused many families to have family problems that started with the loss of jobs and the lack of money. In this quote he is saying that the worries that people faced from the depression caused emotions to haunt people and bring turmoil into their lives day and night (Presidential Library Association 3).
At the beginning of his term he opposed any relief efforts to try and help the people suffering from the depression. As the depression kept getting worse he decided to start a few farm assistance programs to help farmers out with the situation of extremely low crop prices that they were facing. These assistance programs consisted of mainly making it easier for the farmers to obtain loans to keep their crops going even though they were not making money off of it. By the time that he had introduced the new ideas to farmers to keep their farms up and running the farmers had become to dependent of the financial aid being handed out to them by the federal government. Hoover then started federal work projects such as the Coulee Dam and the Hoover Dam, which provided many jobs for people, but the Great Depression was much bigger than a few extra job openings could fix (The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 5-24).