HIST 3057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sharecropping, Bonus Army, Industrial Unionism
28 Aug 2015
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The great depression 02. 25. 15: farm crisis of the 1920s, golden age of agriculture (1914-1920) After ww1 when war torn europe desperately hungry-times were good for american farmers- demand for american cotton and grain-farmers both more land and tractors, machines: science & technology (tractors & fertilizers & hybrid seeds) New scientific and technological advances tractors became crucial but it wasn"t until after. Rapid increase in use of synthetic fertilizers, applied commercial fertilizers, fertilizer production more than tripled. 1930s farmer increasingly turn not only to fertilizers but hybrid seeds- industrializing agriculture: surplus problem & the farm crisis, increasing production, falling prices. New technology- increase surplus problem of american agriculture during ww1 all that. Lost their land through forcloser: rural-to-urban migration (los angeles) Farm crises had 2 major impact 1. they just gave up on farming and moved to cities. City of los angeles expanded dramatically in 1920s one reason was that many mid-western farmers moved to la.
