History of the United States II / Unit 10 USH2 1376 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hunger
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The idea
At least twenty starvation deaths were documented in nineteen thirty-one, and one hundred ten in nineteen thirty-four, the anchor says.
In practice
More than sixty percent of rural households and eighty-two percent of farm families counted as impoverished by nineteen thirty-nine.
Where people slip
The richest agricultural nation in the world recorded Americans starving to death.
Your place on the trail
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