INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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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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effect of geography on people’s lives
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-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: -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.