In addition, the Midwest suffered from one of the droughts in the history of the nation. Beginning in 1930, a large area stretching north from Texas into the Dakotas came to be known as the Bowl.” “Dust This area experienced a steady decline in rainfall with an accompanying increase in heat. The drought continued for a decade. In Kansas, one of the worst hit regions, soils went three feet deep without moisture. Swarms of grasshoppers moved from region to region devouring what few crops farmers could raise. dust storms, called blizzards’ swept across the “black Plains, blotting out the sun and suffocating livestock as well as people who were caught outside. As a result, hundreds of thousands of families from the Dust Bowl, nicknamed traveled to California and others states “Okies” to find work. Unfortunately, these areas were also hard hit and competition to pick crops meant starvation wages. Makeshift shack and shantytowns, nicknamed “Hoovervilles” sprang up across the land. Throughout the nation, problems of malnutrition and homelessness grew at an alarming rate African Americans and the As the Depression began, over half of all black Americans still Depression lived in the South Prices for cotton and other staple crops collapsed, leaving some with no income. Many left the land altogether choice or force –by
In addition, the Midwest suffered from one of the droughts in the history of the nation. Beginning in 1930, a large area stretching north from Texas into the Dakotas came to be known as the “Dust Bowl.” This area experienced a steady decline in rainfall with an accompanying increase in heat. The drought continued for a decade. In Kansas, one of the worst hit regions, soils went three feet deep without moisture. Swarms of grasshoppers moved from region to region devouring what few crops farmers could raise. dust storms, called “black blizzards’ swept across the Plains, blotting out the sun and suffocating livestock as well as people who were caught outside. As a result, hundreds of thousands of families from the Dust Bowl, nicknamed “Okies” traveled to California and others states to find work. Unfortunately, these areas were also hard hit and competition to pick crops meant starvation wages. Makeshift shack and shantytowns, nicknamed “Hoovervilles” sprang up across the land. Throughout the nation, problems of malnutrition and homelessness grew at an alarming rate African Americans and the Depression As the Depression began, over half of all black Americans still lived in the South Prices for cotton and other staple crops collapsed, leaving some with no income. Many left the land altogether –by choice or force
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