THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
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Unemployment decreased gradually.
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Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
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Hoover was re-elected as president.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dust Bowl conditions fomented an exodus of the displaced from the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma Panhandle, and the surrounding Great Plains to adjacent regions. More than 500, 000 Americans were left homeless. More than 350 houses had to be torn down after one storm alone.
Detailed explanation-2: -Drought in the Dust Bowl Years The resulting agricultural depression contributed to the Great Depression’s bank closures, business losses, increased unemployment, and other physical and emotional hardships.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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-5: -Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion all contributed to making the Dust Bowl. The seeds of the Dust Bowl may have been sowed during the early 1920s.