The displaced farmers became the migrants described in John Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath. Families from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas, packed what they could in cars and trucks and headed west. Most were aiming for California where they would become a class of migrant farmers, following the crops during the harvesting season.
The dustbowl is a nickname for the Midwest during the great depression. I is one factor that causes the great depression because of the shortage of food.
The Great Depression
Migrant farm workers who left the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression to seek work elsewhere were known as Okies, a term generally used to represent people from Oklahoma. During the Great Depression, the term was used to refer to people from neighboring states of Oklahoma in an offensive way. The farmers and their families traveled to California, where they were hired as migrant workers for 20 to 25-cents per hour to pick crops.
The Dust Bowl and the Great Depression were interconnected events during the 1930s, both exacerbating the hardships faced by many Americans. The Dust Bowl, caused by severe drought and poor agricultural practices, led to massive soil erosion and crop failures, displacing thousands of farmers and worsening economic conditions. As rural communities struggled, the Great Depression deepened, resulting in widespread unemployment and poverty. Together, these crises highlighted the vulnerabilities of both the agricultural sector and the economy as a whole.
People left the Great Plains during the Great Depression due to severe droughts and dust storms leading to crop failures and economic hardship. This period, known as the Dust Bowl, pushed many farmers to abandon their land in search of better opportunities elsewhere.
The "Dust Bowl"
During the Great Depression years, in the Dust Bowl states, located in the Great Plains, dust and dirt 'devoured' many crops leaving farmers without adequate earnings and crop yields.
The Grapes of Wrath is about a family of farmers during The Great Depression who are forced to survive through the Dust Bowl as economic hardships mount for them.
The Dust Bowl.
Because the Great Depression happened to coincide with the "Dust Bowl" and drought which lasted for several years causing consecutive year crop failures and bankruptcy for many farmers.
The dustbowl is a nickname for the Midwest during the great depression. I is one factor that causes the great depression because of the shortage of food.
beacuse during great depression they blamed him for it so great
The "Okies and Arkies" were migrant farmers moving from Oklahoma (Okie), Arkansas (Arkie), and Texas to California during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
The great depression.
the dust bowl and they were not able to purchase their share in americas output.
You are describing the Dust Bowl, a decade of severe drought in the west and southwest that ruined countless farmers.
The Dust Bowl swept the farmers plants causing people to suffer with great money loss because many farmers couldn't pay for their debts when they borrowed money.