AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Dust Bowl, Sharecropping

• School: University of Florida
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMH 2020
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The lives of ordinary people were affected in various ways during the great depression and were only heightened by the struggles that they faced prior to the financial crisis. When the depression hit, many of the farmers didn"t have the means to stay on their land and faced foreclosures in the early 1930"s. In the midwest, not only did they have to deal with the devastation of the great depression but they also encountered the one of most catastrophic droughts in american history. In document 22. 5 it is a diary entry of a lady and her account of what she faced during the dust bowl. Conversely, many people in the south had to resort to sharecropping in order to survive the depression. As explained in document 22. 6 the life of white sharecropper and his family faced many challenged especially when winter came.