Sugar Shakedown

Early in the 20th century, a way of life for most of America’s farmers came to an end. Industrialization was reaching the countryside, dramatically increasing farm productivity and putting downward pressure on prices. Against that backdrop, dramatically declining exports after World War I and during the Great Depression pushed American farms into bankruptcy by the thousands, a tale grippingly told in John Steinbeck’sThe Grapes of Wrath.[1]

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