Chapter Twenty-Seven Flashcards
1
Q
What can be seen everywhere?
A
Handbills advertising cotton-picking jobs.
2
Q
If migrants cannot bring their own bags to carry the cotton with what are they forced to do?
A
They are forced to pay for the bags on credit.
3
Q
What is the migrants having to buy bags another example of?
A
Another way farm owners take advantage of the poor.
4
Q
What are unscrupulous plantation owners known to do?
A
Use crooked scales to weigh the cotton.
5
Q
How do workers counterbalance the crooked scales?
A
By putting clumps of earth in their bags.
6
Q
What does cotton picking often do?
A
Forces the Okies to compete against each other, harming the community and reducing their pay.
