Dust Bowl Research Paper

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If the weather is poor and you are without precipitation for a few weeks or months you are considered in a short-term drought, but if this weather continues for six months or longer you are now considered to be in a long-term drought. Farmers during the Dust Bowl had this exact problem with their land. Drylands caused farmers to leave their homes in search of jobs, which required them to move frequently and made their lives difficult. For instance, lands in the Midwest start to dry up, causing the farmers to move. The farmers could no longer farm their land, which made up 14 of the population, pack up and move west to California. This would give them new land that would possibly be fertile and grow crops better and faster. According to “Mass Exodus From the Plains” “In the rural area outside Boise City, Oklahoma, the …show more content…
Moving to California didn’t stop the farmers from traveling. In fact, their lives revolve around moving. They moved because of the way crops grew throughout the state. Where ever a certain crop, grapes, cotton, potatoes, ect. were ready to harvest, these migrants had to move there and work to harvest the crops. Robin A. Fanslow: All of these things added on top of each other had to make migrant farmers' lives tough to continue. In addition to the migrants getting to California and getting their jobs, their life conditions were another important factor in the Great Depression. It didn’t matter what amount of work migrants did or how many people in your family worked, the low wages made everything unaffordable. The camps they lived in were rough, violent, and very unsanitary, causing lots of health problems. (Rabin A. Fanslow) All of these problems came about at one time, making farmers depressed, sad, and hard to pick the good out in life. All the migrants wanted to do was work and multiple things continued to get in the way, making life for migrant workers horrible. Workers with children had the