Chapter Nineteen Flashcards
What does Chapter Nineteen recount?
The growth of the farming industry.
How were the Americans able to seize California from the Mexican’s?
Due to their hunger for land.
At what point are farmers alienated from the harmonious connection to the land?
As the American squatters expanded their land and labour was brought in from overseas they become abusive and alienated.
What cycle occurs regarding land hunger?
Those who were once hungry themselves become wealthier, crueler and complacent.
How are the laws shown to be harmful yet have no real purpose?
Some men try to farm fallow land slyly however are arrested for trespassing.
Why does the government burn and raid Hoovervilles?
On the grounds that they are a threat to public health, displacing more ‘Okies’ westwards.
How are the least fortunate still seen as the most compassionate in Chapter Nineteen?
A child dies of Pellagra - a disease caused by malnutrition - the family receives donations from other families in the Hooverville.
