What is NOT true below about the Bonus March?

Question

World War I veterans took their grievenced to Washington DC to get the attention of President Hoover

Congress decided not to give them their special pay allottment early

Congress & Hoover gave into the public pressure and did give the vets their money

Hoover sent General MacArthur and tanks to get the camp (squatters) of resisting vets out of Washington DC and send them back home

Answer 1

Congress and Hoover gave into public pressure and did give the vets their money

Answer 2

Not true: Congress & Hoover did not give into the public pressure.

Basics:

The Bonus Army massed at the United States Capitol on June 17 as the U.S. Senate voted on the Patman Bonus Bill, which would have moved forward the date when World War I veterans received a cash bonus. Most of the Bonus Army camped in a Hooverville on the Anacostia Flats, then a swampy, muddy area across the Anacostia River from the federal core of Washington. The protesters had hoped that they could convince Congress to make payments that had been granted to veterans immediately, which would have provided relief for the marchers who were unemployed due to the Depression. The bill had passed the House of Representatives on June 15 but was blocked in the Senate.

After the defeat of the bill, Congress appropriated funds to pay for the marchers' return home, which some marchers accepted. On July 28, Washington police attempted to remove some remaining Bonus Army protesters from a federal construction site. After police fatally shot two veterans, the protesters assaulted the police with blunt weapons, wounding several of them. After the police retreated, the District of Columbia commissioners informed President Herbert Hoover that they could no longer maintain the peace, whereupon Hoover ordered federal troops to remove the marchers from the general area.

The marchers were cleared and their camps were destroyed by the 12th Infantry Regiment from Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment under the command of MAJ. George S. Patton from Fort Myer, Virginia, under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur.

Reports of U.S. soldiers marching against their peers did not help Hoover's re-election efforts; neither did his open opposition to the Bonus Bill due to financial concerns. After the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, some of the Bonus Army regrouped in Washington to restate its claims to the new President.

Answer 3

Congress & Hoover gave into the public pressure and did give the vets their money

NOT TRUE

All these years later, vets are still treated poorly. :-(

Answer 4

do they go by letter or number?