The colonists in New England specialized by using lumber for shipbuilding. The climate and land were not suitable for agriculture, but the forests provided large amounts of lumber. ... The New England colonies did not have very good farmland because of the rocky soil.
More than 40, 000 civilians were killed.
A military dictator.
Shoguns were very ruthless and you had to obey or else commit suicide/die ont he spot.
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there is no ideological "message" in this novel. Steinbeck describes Zeitgeist of the 1930s, spirit of time immediately after the Great Depression. At the same time we can see one of the crucial characteristic of American cultures - strong and still persistent characteristic of migration within the country (in the case of Oklahoma to California) which is something not so strong in other big countries (Russia, China, Brazil). The same feature of America is present in a beatnik writer, Jack Kerouak.
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