THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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People who migrated away from Oklahoma because they lost their homes to banks during the Great Depression.
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People who migrated to Oklahoma during the 1920s in order to profit from the farming revolution after World War I.
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Native Americans who were forced into reservation in Oklahoma and continued to live there into the Great Depression.
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People who migrated away from Oklahoma due to the Dust Bowl and sought land and food in other places like California.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The classic story of “Okie” migration involves those who settled in the San Joaquin Valley. From 1935 to 1940 more than seventy thousand southwesterners migrated to this fertile inland region, hoping for a small plot of their own.
Detailed explanation-2: -"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-3: -Dust Bowl migrants had little food, shelter, or comfort. Some growers allowed workers to stay rent-free in labor camps. Others provided cabins or one-room shacks. Still others offered only a patch of muddy ground to place a tent.
Detailed explanation-4: -And even though they were American-born, the Dust Bowl migrants still were viewed as intruders by many in California, who saw them as competing with longtime residents for work, which was hard to come by during the Great Depression. Others considered them parasites who would depend on government relief.