THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Question
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Farmers who moved from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables were called what?
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migrant workers
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sharecroppers
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nomads
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A migrant farmworker is a seasonal farmworker who has to travel to do the farm work and is unable to return to his or her permanent residence within the same day.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “migrant farmworker” includes people working temporarily or seasonally in farm fields, orchards, canneries, plant nurseries, fish/seafood packing plants, and more. Guest workers who temporarily live in the US through the federal H2A program to work on farms are also migrant farmworkers.
Detailed explanation-3: -In fact, when the Dust Bowl families arrived in California looking for work, the majority of migrant farm laborers were either Latino or Asian, particularly of Mexican and Filipino descent.
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