According to the text, what did many workers do after
the Great Depression hit?
✓ They came to South Florida to find seasonal work
on farms.
They left Florida to find work in other parts of the
United States
At the beginning of the 1930s, twenty-six percent of
Florida's population was dependent on some form of
public relief.
The Great Depression brought with it skyrocketing
unemployment and the dislocation of millions of workers
from all walks of life. Migrant workers-often entire
families-went in search of jobs wherever they could be
found, adding their numbers to the thousands of seasonal
workers recruited by large agricultural companies in
South Florida each year during harvest time.
-Florida Memory and the State Library and Archives of
Florida
They lost farming jobs and looked for work in
factories instead.
They settled permanently in Florida to work at
banks and other businesses.