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30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

Migrant Mother - Dorothea Lange

Civilian Conservation Corps workers constructing road in 1933. Over 3 million unemployed young men were taken out of the cities and placed into over 2,600 work camps managed by the CCC.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

14. Alternatively, You May Have Moved to Alaska

Many, many families lost their farms during the Great Depression. Recognizing the importance of agriculture and seeing how much fertile land was available in the territory of Alaska, part of FDR’s New Deal allowed hundreds of families to relocate to Alaska, where they could begin new farms.

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