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The Great Depression of the 1930s affected America. America changed from being prosperous in the '20s to being pitiful in the '30s. When the stock market crashed, farmers, African Americans, children, men, and women lost their money, jobs, possessions, and ways of life. The Great Depression caused panic, devastation, and fear among many American citizens. The Southwestern farmers especially experienced the most hardships during the Great Depression because they had no money to grow or sell their crops, so they had no way to support themselves, and the Dust Bowl made it impossible for the farmers' soil to stay nice and rich for the crops. The Southwestern farmers started to be hit hard about a decade before the Depression. Most of them were black and not treated equally in terms of their salary and land. As Gail B. Stewart saw the situation: "Even before the Great Depression was a thought, the Southwestern farmers could barely scrape by on three hundred dollars a year. Four out of every five of them didn't even own land." (26). Stewart felt that the farmers were already poor in the twenties, and shouldn't have had to suffer through the Great Depression:The Southwestern farmers had the bare necessities in the twenties an
They ended up losing more money than they made and had to have theirfarms and land mortgaged. Therefore, they had to keep themselves and their families alive without work and Schankman 2money. The Southern farmers experienced the most hardships during the Great Depression with no money to grow or sell crops and with the Dust Bowl turning farmlands to dust. In a time of economic crisis, Americans have often chosen to give up their houses before their automobiles and that's what the Southwestern farmers did. Okrent mentions that the farmers knew that California had money and land, so they: "hauled everything they owned into battered junkers and drove off to the promised land. Daniel Okrent understands the reason why: "Automobiles soon became the only thing farmers had left. So after all the work the farmers did to stay alive during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, they ended up dying after the Depression because they had nowhere to live. Even the farms and lands, which were mortgaged before, became completely demolished by the winds. Their crop prices stayed low, so their income was also low. Southern farmers basically weren't farmers during the Depression. The President of the National Farmers Union of Agriculture even said that unless something was done to help the American farmer, there would be a revolution in the country in less than a year. The one thing that the farmers were able to keep was their automobile.
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