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What was life like for families that migrated to California during the dust bowl?
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∙ 14y ago
Life for California farmers during the dust bowl was horrible, the farmers would go plant their crops and when the dust bowl come their crops would be black and start to rot because they became not any good anymore.
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Where is the common place to migrate for people?
In the 1930's (during the dust bowl) people migrated to California.
Who were the Okies?
Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmers who migrated to California to find work.
What events occurred during the Dust Bowl?
Families were forced to leave their homes. 350 houses had to be torn down. Over 86,000 people migrated to California. By 1940 over two million people moved out of the Plains state.
Victims of the Dust Bowl migrated from the Midwestern US to where?
California
How many people migrated to California due to the dust bowl?
500,000
When did many people from Oklahoma migrate?
No, people did not migrate to Oklahoma, a lot of people migrated from Oklahoma.During the dust bowl people from Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado migrated to California.
What did families do during the dust bowl in 1934 and 1935?
they went through trouble
How many people move to California during the Dust Bowl?
Due to the Dust Bowl conditions, about 200,000 people had moved to California by 1940.
What states experienced devastation during the Dust bowl?
california.
How did people affected by the Dust Bowl respond?
They left for California in hopes of starting a new life.
The term Okie was used to describe people who migrated away from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. This migration was famously depicted in which of the following books?
'The Grapes of Wrath'
How did environmental changes in the great plains lead to changes in America?
The "Dust Bowl" was the loss of farmland to drought and erosion in the 1930s. Many farmers left the Great Plains during the height of the Great Depression (1934-1936) and migrated to other areas, especially California, where some found work as migrant laborers.
