Which of the following best describes hoovervilles?
a. breadlines set up during the great depression
b. shanty towns that began to pop up during the great depression
c. the financial district on wall street in new york city
d. areas of support for herbert hoover during the great depression

Option (B)

Explanation:

Hooverville is the name of a town is a town that was constructed by the unemployed people in the year 1930 during the time of the Great Depression. This Great Depression refers to that great economic downfall of the industrial world that has taken place from the year 1929 to 1939. It raised soon after the crashing of the stock market in October 1929, removing millions of investors.

The people living in this town were extremely poor and they had neither money nor jobs.

Thus, the correct answer is option (B).

many women had to remain at home while husbands found work.

explanation:

barrio is a spanish word meaning neighborhood. in spain, several latin american countries and the philippines, the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality while a ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. the term may have originally been used in venice to describe the part of the city to which jews were restricted and segregated.