Farmers

• People who did not benefit from the boom - farmers

  struggled against Canadian wheat production

  Europe imported less food from USA after WW1

  Overproduction - led to prices plummeting

  Most farm prices fell by 50 percent

  Famers lost their land due to debt
• People who did not benefit from the boom - African-Americans

  As farms closed, more jobs were lost

  Struggled to find work in the cities as most places had an all white policy
• People who did not benefit from the boom - Native Americans

  42 percent of Americans lived below the poverty line