Oklahoma was hit particularly hard by the Great Depression due to a combination of factors, including its reliance on agriculture, which was devastated by drought and the Dust Bowl phenomenon. The state's economy, heavily dependent on farming, faced plummeting prices and widespread crop failures, leading to severe unemployment and poverty. Additionally, the lack of diversified industries left many residents without alternative job opportunities, exacerbating the economic crisis. The combination of environmental disaster and economic vulnerability made Oklahoma one of the hardest-hit states during this period.
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The states in the Dust Bowl that suffered the least seem to be northeast New Mexico and parts of the east slops of the Rockies to the Mississippi. The states that were hit hard was Texas and Oklahoma.
The states in the Dust Bowl that suffered the least seem to be northeast New Mexico and parts of the east slops of the Rockies to the Mississippi. The states that were hit hard was Texas and Oklahoma.
Ireland was hit particularly hard by the Great Depression. Employment in the mining and industrial areas were at 70 percent. Millions lost their jobs and had to depend on the government dole to survive. One reason it hit so hard was because the United Kingdom had not fully recovered from World War I.
The US was better off than any of the European nations, Germany was especally hard hit.
The rural south was hit hard by the Great Depression, and this story takes place shortly after that event.
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The farmers in Kansas.
It happened most in the 1720s.
The Midwestern state of Oklahoma was mostly acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase but its panhandle region was not acquired until the end of the Mexican-American War. The state was hit hard by the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Its capital city was also the site of a home-grown terrorist bombing in 1995 by Timothy McVeigh.
because he was, in essence, the horse that saved the nation. Australia was hit hard by the great depression, and he gave people who were really struggling hope.