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a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression
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raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression.
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As the economic depression deepened in the early 30s, and as farmers had less and less money to spend in town, banks began to fail at alarming rates.
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an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice
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