THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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they packed up their belongings and headed west in search of jobs in California
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farmers moved their families to Oregon where the climate was colder and wetter
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Most farmers stayed on their farmers and waited for the drought to end
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, even with government help, many farmers could not maintain their operations and were forced to leave their land. Some voluntarily deeded their farms to creditors, others faced foreclosure by banks, and still others had to leave temporarily to search for work to provide for their families.
Detailed explanation-2: -Driven by the depression, drought, and the Dust Bowl, thousands upon thousands left their homes in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri. Over 300, 000 of them came to California. They looked to California as a land of promise. Not since the Gold Rush had so many people traveled in such large numbers to the state.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a drought in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
Detailed explanation-4: -Like the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, some 40 percent of migrant farmers wound up in the San Joaquin Valley, picking grapes and cotton. They took up the work of Mexican migrant workers, 120, 000 of whom were repatriated during the 1930s. Life for migrant workers was hard.