THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S
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they were unable to farm the land.
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they wanted to go find gold.
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they wanted to be movie stars in California.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nineteen states in the heartland of the United States became a vast dust bowl. With no chance of making a living, farm families abandoned their homes and land, fleeing westward to become migrant laborers.
Detailed explanation-2: -During World War I, farmers worked hard to produce record crops and livestock. When prices fell they tried to produce even more to pay their debts, taxes and living expenses. In the early 1930s prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the rural area outside Boise City, Oklahoma, the population dropped 40% with 1, 642 small farmers and their families pulling up stakes. The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200, 000 moved to California.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.