I believe the answer is the great depression and the president at the time was Franklin Roosevelt
The answer to the following question is Bland-Allison Act
Freed slaves or the enslaved negroes/black farmers migrated to western territories because the west was new and the United States Agrarian Reform had promised them a free land which is forty (40) acres and a mule under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Limited resources mean that the person does not have a lot of resources, that there are very limited.