INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Question
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There was no unemployment on the West Coast
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California was experiencing a gold rush
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The Dust Bowl pushed farmers out of the Great Plains
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The Stock Market crash led farmers to lose their homes on the Great Plains
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Dust Bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the Great Depression and drove many farming families on a desperate migration in search of work and better living conditions.
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Almost one-quarter of the population was forced out when they lost their farms and ranches in bank foreclosures. The need to feed their children and raise them in more healthful surroundings drove many families to pack everything they owned in cars and trucks and head west. California became a popular destination.
Detailed explanation-4: -The severe drought and dust storms had left many homeless; others had their mortgages foreclosed by banks, or felt they had no choice but to abandon their farms in search of work. Many Americans migrated west looking for work.
Detailed explanation-5: -Causes of the Dust Bowl A number of poor land management practices in the Great Plains region increased the vulnerability of the area before the 1930s drought. Some of the land use patterns and methods of cultivation in the region can be traced back to the settlement of the Great Plains nearly 100 years earlier.