Farmers and the Dust Bowl
- 1920s farmers were in debt due to large bank loans and low agricultural prices
- It got much worse during the 1930s
- Depression drought grasshoppers bank failures and dust storms hurt farmers
- Over 1 million families lost farms between 1930-1940
The Dust Bowl
● Man made ecological disaster caused by over productions of agricultural products
●Farm land literally blowing away in huge dust storms(Some even reached the sea)
Okies
- A name given to Dust Bowl migrants who left the Great Plains in search of employment.
- Most headed to California-the Promised Land