The Canterbury Tales was a popular book of the period because it c) was written in easy-to-understand language. This was because it was written in Vernacular English language, at a time where most tales were written in Latin, French or Italian. Chaucer at his time was part of the time of this trend where English-language stories were taking off.
The 1920’s was marked by drastic events in the U.S economy.
After a decade of very high economic growth and boom in manufacturing (the
Roaring Twenties), the Wall Street stock market began to slide down on October
24, 1929, and by November stock prices lost as much as 40% of its value. The
drop was caused by overproduction of agricultural produce. The resulting
oversupply caused farmer’s incomes to drop. People also purchased stocks using
borrowed money,which contributed further to the slide.
Ah cool!
This would be referring to the Homestead Act! They would give the land to anyone who was willing to work on or improve the land.
The land was given almost free of cost and all the new owner of the land was required to do, was work the land until it was ready for farming/crops, and then they had to build a house for themselves (and possibly their family).
