THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Question
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What name was given to the families that took Route 66 to California
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speculators
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transient
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okies
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hoboes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -They called it the Main Street of America.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because they arrived impoverished and because wages were low, many lived in filth and squalor in tents and shantytowns along the irrigation ditches. Consequently, they were despised as “Okies, ” a term of disdain, even hate, pinned on economically degraded farm laborers no matter their state of origin.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl era, large numbers of farmers fleeing ecological disaster and the Great Depression migrated from the Great Plains and Southwest regions to California mostly along historic U.S. Route 66.
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