In the 1920’s mass production had become inevitable to supply the American people when they embraced the automobile, over ‘60 percent’1 of American households owned at least one motor vehicle. Farmers too were encouraged to buy new machinery and to purchase more land to supply demand. The American dream had become based upon the ability to purchase and borrow. Overproduction and the Wall Street Crash 1929 caused the then prospering America that President Hoover had inherited in 1928 to plummet into The Great Depression and Hoover soon saw his vision of free enterprise collapse due to the aftermath of the above events. However he persisted to carrying on for three longs years insisting that the ‘American economy was sound while it was actually collapsing’2 even though people lost their homes, jobs and food had become scarce for many. Amongst the hardest hit were agricultural workers and farmers who had borrowed money to buy more land only to find that land prices were falling. This and the drought played an important factor in the down fall of the Agricultural Industry. Therefore as a result of the above contributory factors and of the complacency of Hoover who had neglected to realise the greatness of devastation
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