History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1247 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Who Missed the Boom
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The idea
Farmers' bankruptcy rates, already severe, skyrocketed in the nineteen twenties, the Yawp says, amid what Digital History calls a post-war depression in agriculture.
In practice
Foreclosure notices in farm towns while city stock prices climbed.
Where people slip
The Yawp says that for farmers, racial minorities and unionised workers, the booming economy had always been a fiction.
Your place on the trail
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