pittance, because a pittance was better than nothing.
Bad farming, combined with severe weather conditions resulted in much of the fertile farming land being destroyed. Those workers, who had already struggled to find work when leaving the city, were forced to uproot again and leave the so-called ‘Dustbowl Plains’ of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas in favour of California – the golden state.
The American Dream – the US government, to try and combat the Depression of the 1930s created a ‘New Deal’ for…
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