Why did creditors foreclose on so many farms during the Great Depression?

During the Great Depression, many farmers faced foreclosure because they had taken on large amounts of debt and mortgages to finance their operations. As prices continually fell after World War I, farmers found it harder and harder to pay their debts, and many were foreclosed on and evicted.

Explanation:

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook