and control of the House of Representatives. This resulted in Hoover beginning a mass-intervention strategy.
             It wasn't until 1932 that Hoover started giving certain groups within America support. To help food prices the board brought farm produce to steady prices, but little help was obtained. Government schemes like the Hoover Dam were set up to provide jobs to the mass-unemployed, but still not enough jobs were made. When the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was set up in 1932, loans totaling $1500 million were provided to small business to help them get back on their feet. This may have helped some businesses but it still was not enough to get more people employed. Once again the main factors that influenced Hoover to begin the intervention were those of the constant rise in unemployment and to help the millions of Americans that were suffering from the result of the depression.
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