With Russian blockades contributing to a growing European economic depression, America’s wheat production in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and the Dakotas were booming in response to worldwide demand, and harvesters were desperately needed.

In 1915, Theodore Roosevelt stated tht many imgrant Americans were loyal only to their mother countries and therefore untrustworthy, especially in a time of war.”….Wilson’s attitude encouraged carte blanche for discrimination and violence against minorities, and xenophobia began to permeate the American atmosphere.