Chapter 8: The Great Depression and Postwar Years

A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources
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Chapter 8 The Great Depression and Postwar Years
Mass Deportations of MexicanWorkers
The Bracero Program
The Zoot Suit Riots
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Abstract

As the Great Depression set in for the United States and the rest of the world in the 1930s, many Americans found themselves hit with harsh economic and social struggles. America's once-booming economy essentially collapsed upon the ruins of post-World War I Europe. For many Mexicans living in the United States, likewise, the Great Depression was a period of great angst and anxiety.

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