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Why Didn't Everyone Benefit From the Economic Boom? (New Inmigrants (A…
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- Half of the Americans lived on farms making money selling machines or providing services to farmers
- Machines made farming efficient but at the same time produced more food than what was needed
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- mostly labourers or sharecroppers
- USA competed with the Canadien markets who supplied grain to world market
- three quarters of a million black farm workers lost their jobs during the 1920's
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- Price of grain collapsed and caused farmers to earn less than $1000 a year
- they faced discrimination
- 25 percent of black people were livingin the northern cities searching for wrok opportunities
- Farmers could no keep up their mortgage payments
- Some were evicted and some sold their land to clear debts
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- sixty percent of black woman worked as low paid domestic cervants in white households
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