the 20s, money was difficult to come by and the cost of living was constantly rising. In 1929, America’s big banks suffered the Wall Street Crash, losing billions of dollars of people’s money. Businesses and families lost everything they had saved. Unemployment was at an all time high, with a third of the population out of work. People living in cities flocked to the countryside to find work on farms and ranches. Those fortunate enough to find work clung on to it with all they had, sometimes…
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