But the grass in that region had never been farm land before so when you combined the drought, the heat and the wind it made for a very bad situation. ... Because you had many people who came to this region hoping to escape the great depression that had ravaged the cities on the eastern seaboard and the people who came to the region thought they were coming into a great opportunity and would be able to better provide for themselves and for their families. ... I do think that President Roosevelt did try and make a good attempt in helping the victims of the dust storms by starting the Farm Secur...

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Adults during this time are trying to find jobs, and when they found a job they most likely have to travel, causing them to leave their family and feel some type of loneliness. ... In the novella Of Mice and Men Curley's Wife was the only woman on the farm and was quite lonely. Curley's wife gets treated very differently from the other people on the farm. ... Many of the men on the farm think that Curley's wife is a whore so they leave her alone anyways. ... During the Great Depression many people became lonely because they had to leave their family to find jobs, especially migr...

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By the mid-1930s, the drought had crippled countless farm families, and America had fallen into the Great Depression. Unable to earn money they like many other farm families they traveled to California with hopes of finding work. But the farm country of California quickly became overcrowded with people in the same situation. ... The men on the farm call her names like "tramp and "looloo". ... They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ...

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My grandma's mother and father owned a farm with one thousand nine hundred acres. ... When she got older she had to help do other chores around the farm, like milk the cows and feed all the animals. ... She did remember that her parents helped out the neighboring families that were not as fortunate as they were. ... It was unusual for a farm lady to work outside the house in those days. ... I am finishing this paper with a new found pride in my family history. ...

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"Agricultural prices declined between 1919 and 1920 lead by grain which plummeted 53.3 percent and farm debt burdens increased dramatically as farm prices and income fell but debt remained fixed. The 1920's witnessed a continuing series of farm foreclosures and prices for farmland continued to decline." 8 As the farmers struggled through these times, no one seemed to care, even President Coolidge (a farmer himself) who proclaimed "The business of government is business" and ignored the farm crisis even as "farm income remained static and farm land values decreased from $80 billion to ...

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George and Lenny spend their time traveling from farm to farm, working and saving their income, because they want to purchase their own farm. ... Although he does not do much work on the ranch, he can do small odd jobs around the farm. ... All of the men on the farm spread rumors about her, and all conversations about her are negative. ... Sadly, she never received any letters, and blamed it all on her family, and then left home. ... The farm that the two were planning to purchase-yet never reach-has a unique quality. ...

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The factories and farms still continued to produce at the same rate, but demand for their products was decreasing. ... Because prices were falling farmers were not producing enough money to sustain their farms and had to risk foreclosure. ... Farmer could not make enough money to pay their loans and many lost their farms and homes. The working class, 1 in 4 lost their job and with no way to make money many lost their home and struggled to get food for their families. ... As mentioned before, families were left with no money, no food, and some without homes. ...

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Workers and Farmers were unable to pay mortgage payments and lost their homes and farms. ... The AAA's purpose was to help farmers by reducing the production of staple crops so that it would raise farm prices. Farmers were paid to limit their crop production with funds raised through a tax on processors of Farm products. While this did increase farm income, people believed it was wrong for farmers to produce less at a time when more was needed. ... The needy were also being helped by many of the acts that were passed, Such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, which put young men of needy f...

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The novel, The Grapes of Wrath, concerns a group of people labeled "Okies" in the nineteen-thirties who were driven from their farms and from their land during the Dust Bowl (a period of severe drought). ... This novel is about two lower class farm hands that travel from town to town attempting to find a steady job. ... A quote from Chapter Seventeen in The Grapes of Wrath provides another example of how Steinbeck alluded to Bible stories: "The families learned what rights must be observed - the right of privacy in the tent; the right to keep the past black hidden in the heart; the right to ...

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived under. ... the Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ... Times were rough for the Joad family as well as many other families. ... This turtle is like the Joad family because they are also faced with many obstacles while trying to tra...

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived under. ... the Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ... Times were rough for the Joad family as well as many other families. ... This turtle is like the Joad family because they are also faced with many obstacles while trying to tra...

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The problem with this was that in order to receive funding from the AAA, one needed to own their farm because of this sharecroppers and tenant farmers did not directly see any income from the AAA. ... No person would be allowed to have a personal net worth of more than three hundred times the average family fortune. ... The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) provided low interest mortgages that enable more American families to be able to purchase their own homes and become homeowners for the first time. ...

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Among her other teachers were a succession of "loveable old hacks", including one wandering tramp who knocked on families doors showing his wares and offering to take the families picture. ... Shocked by the number of homeless people in search of work during the Great Depression, she decided to take pictures of people in the street to draw attention to their plight. # In 1935, Lange joined the Farm Security Administration, where she caught on film the hardships of migrant farm families escaping the dust bowl. ...

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He was born into a middle class family and was the third of four children being the only boy (Hamilton 26). ... The book is about two laborers during the depression who have a dream of saving money to start up a rabbit farm. ... The book is about how a family is forced from their farm during the dustbowl depression era and they migrate west to California for a better and more sustainable life. ... He's known most for his writing about families and relating it to problems he's faced in his life and has lived through. ... Steinbeck had a lot of influences from his family, for example h...

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Along with these business problems was the farm crisis in the west. ... The government implemented laws, which banned more than two people from the same family to be on the government payroll. ... Many men also abandoned their families because they were ashamed of themselves (Wiegand, 248). ... One of the events that occurred during the depression was the farm crisis. Many farmers lost their farms because there were droughts, which caused dust to accumulate. ...

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During World War I the federal government had subsidized farms, and paid really high prices for wheat and other grains. The federal government had told farmers to buy more land, to modernize their methods with the latest in farm technology, and to produce more food. ... The second-tier in Maycomb is shown by the Cunningham family, who are struggling but they did their best and were proud. ... She has worked for the Finch family for all her life. ... It came down to the word of the "poor-white trash" Ewell family against an upstanding black citizen. ...

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The Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act suspended mortgage foreclosures for three years, and moved farmers with small amounts of poor land to better areas. ... Poverty levels soared, especially in the mid-west, where many families lost their farms due to falling prices of crops and a drought that had lasted for years. ...

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Wholesale and retail food dropped forty percent, and farm prices dropped over sixty percent. About four million families were left unemployed. ... The farm area were affected as well as the urban cities. ... Miniature golf became another favorite form of entertaining which provided fun for the whole family. ...

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This photo undoubtedly epitomizes not only the Great Depression or documentary photography but of the struggles of a mother and families that were gravely affected by the sudden deterioration of the economy. ... After her father abandoned her family when she was approximately 12 years old, Lange developed polio. ... Working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) between 1935 and 1942, Lange pushed aside older, less engaged approaches and directed to farmworkers and other mi- grants a form of humanistic, socially oriented documentary photography.... It is...

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The Joads, as well as thousands of other families, were forced to leave the homes they lived in and the lands they farmed on for many generations (Hinton 1). ... Young family members often times took to the roads and the rails on their own fearing that they were a burden to be taken care of for their families. ... Steinbeck makes it a point to show how the Joads are only one of many families enduring these hardships as it was apparent that friends and other families were taking the same journey. The loss of family members such as when Grandpa dies on the trip was not an uncommon occurrence...

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The use of labor saving machinery in factories and on farms enabled workers to produce more goods faster and less expensively. ... Low-income families could afford to buy an inexpensive Model T, which Henry Ford developed in 1908. ... Droughts and dust storms caused by poor tillage practices devastated farms and ranches of the Great Plains; therefore, causing a great exodus of its inhabitants to other, more fertile, lands. ... A large number of the travelers settled down in this area and built farms and ranches. ...

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Many people starved, lost their homes and family and started a life on the tracks to find work. ... "25 percent of all workers and 37 percent of all non-farm workers were completely out of work" (Smiley). ... "There were although monthly relief rates for family of five or more varying from 60 dollars in Calgary to 19 dollars in Halifax.... For all the unemployed there was a relief program for families and all unemployed single men were sent packing by relief officers by boxcar to British Columbia. ... It was said by the Federal Department of Labor that a family needed between $1,20...

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They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs [and] their hopes" (Brokaw XIX). ... They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. ... I kept focused on what I wanted to do, which was make money, provide for my family"( Brokaw 200). ...

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As a result, some farmers, lost so much money that they could not pay the mortgage on their farm. ... When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own. ... These desperate migrant families, upon their arrival, frightened the established citizens of California and were labeled "Okies," a derogatory term referring to any outcast from the Southwest or northern plain states. ...

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Only one farm in 50 had electricity and half its population of 2.5 million people was living below the poverty line. ... By 1943, for example, 80 % of the valley farms had converted from kerosene lamps to electricity and farmers were doing better than they had ever done before. ...

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