Which of the following would be considered the major reason that an American Farmer did not prosper in 1920's?

Question

Options.
A) Crop surpluses
B) Coolidge's dislike of farmers
C) Severe droughts
D) Lack of tariffs on farm products

Answer 1

The answer is A. During WWI the government asked American farmers to produce more food because we had to feed Europe. So farmers started taking out loans to buy more land and more crops. For a few years farmers made a lot of money. Then the war ended and American farmers started having some problems. Europe started feeding themselves and American farmers started making less money because we had so much food here. Then the banks started taking farms because the farmers weren't able to make their loan payments. When the banks had foreclosed on too many properties they ended up closing and that is the start of the Great Depression.

Answer 2

C. Severe Droughts.
With this element in place, the farms went under and then the banks foreclosed on all the homesteads for the famer was unable to produce crops and thus not able to keep up payments of their farms. This was what caused the "dust bowl flight" to California during this drought and subquesent depression that lasted well into the late 1930's.

Answer 3

C. causing part of the country to be named the Dust Bowl

Answer 4

C severe droughts