THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Question
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Many families moving from Dust Bowl areas settled in the San Joachin Valley and became migrant farmers.
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Nearly 350 dust storms carried away the topsoil, and land and homes were covered with dust.
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The Dust Bowl caused families to move west in search of jobs and new homes.
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Farming methods and cattle had harmed the land, and then a severe drought hit the region in the mid-1930s.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A combination of aggressive and poor farming techniques, coupled with drought conditions in the region and high winds created massive dust storms that drove thousands from their homes and created a large migrant population of poor, rural Americans during the 1930s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Farmers and ranchers destroyed the grasses that held the soil in place. Farmers plowed up more and more land, while ranchers overstocked the land with cattle. As the grasses disappeared, the land became more vulnerable to wind erosion.
Detailed explanation-3: -Crops began to fail with the onset of drought in 1931, exposing the bare, over-plowed farmland. Without deep-rooted prairie grasses to hold the soil in place, it began to blow away. Eroding soil led to massive dust storms and economic devastation-especially in the Southern Plains.
Detailed explanation-4: -The land became almost uninhabitable, and over two million people left their homes throughout the course of the dust bowl in search of a new life elsewhere. Many ended up nearly starved to death and homeless. Some of the states severely affected were Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado.