INFORMATION FOR THE ACADEMIC DECATHLON TEAM CHAPTER 25

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Chapter 25, page 346 of the authorized text:

1. This chapter shows the crop cycle from spring through harvest.
2. Produce prices drop; small farmers cannot afford to hire workers for the harvest.
3. Commercial farmers diversify and will survive.
4. The Roosevelt Administration orders the destruction of crops. There is a mass slaughter of pigs and their burial follows. All this as people go hungry.
5. People try to collect potatoes dumped in rivers, but are stopped by the government.


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