In 1929 the wall street crash caused a great depression across the whole world. In america the stocks crashed and as everyone was selling them they became worth less and less. As it hit america, they started to demand repayment from Germany as they had loned money from the Dawes and the Young plan. This spread the depression further around the world. It links to ‘to kill a mockingbird’ because the book is set after the event. We know the farmers around had been hit the hardest out of everyone- as Atticus stated. Also the Ewell’s instead of paying in money instead with what they had (in Woodstock).