What is the purpose of this passage? to explain the new technologies farmers used in the 1800s to connect a period of Russian history with the history of sugar to explain to readers how enslaved Africans differed from Russian serfs to give background information about the origins of cane sugar

The great depression, which lasted throughout the 1930s in the united states, affected many people, and it had a devastating impact on an entire subset of the u.s. population. modernist writer john steinbeck wrote about the toll the depression took on these families, many of whom were forced to leave their farms and find other sources of income.