WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -Driven by the depression, drought, and the Dust Bowl, thousands upon thousands left their homes in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri. Over 300, 000 of them came to California. They looked to California as a land of promise. Not since the Gold Rush had so many people traveled in such large numbers to the state.

Detailed explanation-3: -As families realized that the drought and dust storms would not end, some sold what they could not take and began to drive west on Route 66. Many hoped to become hired hands on California farms, learning how to grow fruits and vegetables while living on the farms where they worked.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although it technically refers to the western third of Kansas, southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico, the Dust Bowl has come to symbolize the hardships of the entire nation during the 1930s.