THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S
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effect of geography on people’s lives.
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success of government farm subsidies.
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limitation of civil liberties during times of crisis.
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result of the Indian Removal Act.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Oklahoma alone lost 440, 000 people to migration. Many of them, poverty-stricken, traveled west looking for work. From 1935 to 1940, roughly 250, 000 Oklahoma migrants moved to California. A third settled in the state’s agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley.
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: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The strong winds that accompanied the drought of the 1930s blew away 480 tons of topsoil per acre, removing an average of five inches of topsoil from more than 10 million acres. The dust and sand storms degraded soil productivity, harmed human health, and damaged air quality.