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Why did US farmers from the great plains left their farms and migrated to California in the 1930's?
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because all crops have decreased the price of it by about 66 percent .
in those days some romars were being told about mining gold in California and the dream to be millian dollar man so they left their farm and left searching for gold
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What name was given to the plains farmers and others who migrated west during the 1930s?
They were called Sodbusters. In the open Plains they lacked trees so they used sod to build their homes
What name was given to the plains farmers who migrated west during the 1930s?
I've mostly heard them called "Okies" or "Dust Bowlers." You may want to double check on that though.
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.
Dust Bowl?
Severe drought ruined crops in the Great Plains and created this term to describe the region during the 1930s because it was named after the dust that constantly flew around and smothered everything. As the horrid conditions continued coupled with poor farming practices, 350,000 farmers whose crops had been ruined migrated to California. These ex-farmers became known as Okies.
Which book describes how the Dust Bowl of the 1930s affected farmers of the Great Plains?
The Grapes of Wrath
What was the result of drought and erosion in the Great Plains in the 1930s?
Many farmers left the great plain because the dust bowl caused droughts and that was really bad for agriculture or farming
Which of these economic effects did the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s have on America?
The farmers in the great plains crops failed and they went banked rupt
Why did many farmers leave the Great Plains during the 1930s?
Many farmers left the great plain because the dust bowl caused droughts and that was really bad for agriculture or farming
What was the name given to the area of the southern great plains severely damaged by droughtsdust stroms and misuse of the landby farmers during the 1930s?
That was the Dust Bowl.
In the late 1930s what combination of events and promises prompted many farmers in the plains states to travel westward?
In the late 1930s the combination of events and promises that prompted many farmers in the plains states to travel westward is that food produce became cheap, and the west was said to have gold mines.
What human activity contributed to the dust storms in the great plains in the 1930s?
Dry land farming and overgrazing contributed to the dust storms in the Great Plains in the 1930s.
During the 1930s people migrated from the Midwest westward because of?
a severe drought
