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here is the answer, Because the owners are losing money on tenant farmers. If I am wrong comment down below
In chapter 5 for The Grapes Of Wrath, the owners of the land suggest the tenant farmers to move to California.
Work the land to pay the rent.
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They do that because they would divide their land among their sons and after several generations the average farmer would have about an acre of land. So with a little bit of money they had no choice but to sell their land to aristocrats and become tenant farmers.
In chapter 5 for The Grapes Of Wrath, the owners of the land suggest the tenant farmers to move to California.
here is the answer, Because the owners are losing money on tenant farmers. If I am wrong comment down below
That the farmers must leave
In chapter 5 for The Grapes Of Wrath, the owners of the land suggest the tenant farmers to move to California.
Work the land to pay the rent.
Work the land to pay the rent.
The landowners want the tenant farmers to leave in "The Grapes of Wrath" because they want to increase profits by using modern agricultural methods that require fewer workers. They see the tenant farmers as obstacles to progress and are driven by greed and a desire for efficiency. The farmers are viewed as expendable in the face of mechanization and economic interests.
A serf farms land that belongs to another, is able to retain some of his crop, and is legally bound to the land. He cannot leave for a better piece of land or a better job. A tenant farmer farms land that belongs to another under a rental or lease arrangement. He pays the land owner for the right to farm, usually with a portion of the crop. In theory he has the right to leave and farm elsewhere, or take a job in town. In practice, tenant farmers were sometime do deeply in debt to their land owners that they could not leave because the local law considered leaving as the same as running out on the debt. Then a tenant farmer was not much different from a serf.
rented the land they farmed
Tenant Farmers
Because it cost them too much money to work on the land. But they still needed jobs, so they became tenant farmers.
Tenant Farmers