The hoover adminisration initially responded to the onset of the great depression by

Mostly doing very little thinking that it would pass.

Eventually, the Hoover Administration raised taxes and import taxes, neither of which helped the country recover.

In short, the Hoover Administration didn't use the power of government to help bring the country out of the recession.

according to howard zinn, the history presents the encounter between columbus and the arawaks as a heroic adventure of descovery but leaves in the shades the cruel slavery and bloodshed columbus led in order to pay back to his investors. he sent the indians back to his nation as a payment, slaved them to find gold in the land and punished them when they didn't find any. history presents columbus as a heroe and even celebrates his day, when in reality he led a genocide. zinn describes the story of the colonization from the arawaks point of view.