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Doctors thought they were "shocking" patients out of their illness These treatments didn't generally cure their mental illness

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In 1930’s it was very common for black people to be lynched because the Ku Klux Klan still had a lot of power.

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People that went to California because of the dust bowl were called okies because 20 percent who were from Oklahoma. The migrants represented in Voices from the Dust Bowl came primarily from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri.

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People that migrated to California had the same conservative religious and political beliefs and were ethnocentric in their attitude toward other ethnic/cultural groups, with whom they had little contact prior to their arrival in California

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The “Okies” were treated badly such attitudes sometimes led to the use of derogatory language and negative stereotyping of cultural outsiders. California farmers' attitudes toward both Mexican and "Okie" workers, and discriminatory attitudes toward migrant workers in general.

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At the beginning of the century most waged work for women was found in trades associated with female skills or proclivities, particularly where these were also casual and low paid.

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Black people were paid less than their white counterparts and they had to work harder than everyone else, often given the more 'dirty work’.

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Black people wanted to change the way they were treated but it was very difficult for them to do this as a result of the Jim Crow Laws, these were a number of laws in America enforced between 1876 and 1965 that provided a legal basis for segregating and discriminating against African-Americans.

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nearly all women were reliant on their husbands for a source of money, many women did live in miserable marriages.

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If married, most women stayed at home to look after the children while their husband worked and brought in a weekly wage.

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Steinbeck dropped out of college and worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer.

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Free photo Building California Palo Alto Stanford University - Max Pixel

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Building California Palo Alto Stanford University photo, resolution 4728×3152 pixel, Image type JPEG, free download and free for commercial use.

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The Grapes of Wrath was so popular, partly because it struck a chord with Americans at the time, that it sold 10,000 copies a week at its peak sales.

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John Steinbeck worked as a caretaker in Lake Tahoe and used his spare time to write his first novel titled Cup of Gold, which was published in 1929.

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Doctors tried many treatments on humans that they had acquired information from testing and evaluating the results of monkeys.

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There were also a few different types of shock therapy like Insulin
All of the therapies induced seizures in patients

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The Social Security Act was a federal safety net for elderly, unemployed and disadvantaged Americans

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Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the stock market crash began

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The WPA- which in 1939 was renamed the Work Projects Administration- employed mostly unskilled men to carry out public works infrastructure projects