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Stock Market Crash, start of the Great Depression
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In the presidential election, Hoover did not stand a chance at re-election and Roosevelt won by a landslide.
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The unemployment rate reached an all-time high for this time period
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New Deal Programs such as the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and WPA (Works Progress Administration) attempted to help curb unemployment by hiring people for various projects.
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From 1929 to 1933, many California farmhands were laid off and their wages dropped from $3.50 to $1.90 a day.
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50 strikes break out on California farms as farmhands tell landowners ,"You can pick your own crops for $1.75 a day!" Many of these strikes were carried out by Unions such as the CAWIU (Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union).
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Massive drought in the mddle of the cuntry devistated farms. The cotton and hay industry decreased. This drought caused the Dust Bowl
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Of Mice and Men was published by John Steinbeck. It was very during the Great Depression Era.
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George is upset with Lennie for causing them to lose their job in Weed, because employment is increasingly dificult to find.
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George and Lennie arrive at the ranch in Soledad
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By 1938, half the nation's grain was harvested by mechanical combines that enabled five men to do the work that had previously required 350
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The rain and replenished the farms that were weakened by the many years of drought. The agricultural industry restrengthened.
