VISUAL ACTIVITYHoover Campaign Poster This poster effectively illustrates Herbert Hoover’s 1928 campaign message: Republican administrations in the 1920s had produced middle-class prosperity, complete with a house in the suburbs and the latest automobile.READING THE IMAGE: What in the poster reminds voters that Hoover as secretary of commerce had helped create prosperity by promoting industry?CONNECTIONS: How does the spirit of the poster compare with the actual campaign against the Democrat (and Catholic) Al Smith?

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