What was President Herbert Hoover's approach to public sentiment during the early Depression years?

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

In ohio in 1872, the cleveland massacre was a)a violent labor dispute at standard oil refineries in cleveland. b)a takeover by standard oil of the refineries in cleveland. c)an attempt to stop standard oil from becoming a monopoly. d)a failed attempt by standard oil to take over other refineries.

Why was the sixteenth amendment important to woodrow wilson’s efforts to regulate the economy? a) the sixteenth amendment lowered interest rates charged by banks. b) the sixteenth amendment allowed congress to levy an income tax c) the sixteenth amendment lowered tariffs on imported goods d) the sixteenth amendment allowed congress to break up monopolies