THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE DUST BOWL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Letters from Friends
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Yellow papers asking for pickers
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Ocean
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Government asking for workers
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Detailed explanation-1: -New immigration laws forcibly deported thousands of Mexican workers. Their absence created a need for farm workers. This attracted the Dust Bowl migrants to settle in California’s farm valleys.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why were Midwestern and Great Plains citizens migrating out to the West Coast? The Dust Storms and the Dust Bowl were affecting their way of life, causing illness and famine.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Okies, ” as Californians labeled them, were refugee farm families from the Southern Plains who migrated to California in the 1930s to escape the ruin of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Detailed explanation-4: -When the drought and dust storms showed no signs of letting up, many people abandoned their land. Others would have stayed but were forced out when they lost their land in bank foreclosures.