2007-03-12 11:38:48 · 5 answers · asked by DeeZee 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Farmers couldn't sell crops because of overproduction and noone could buy the crops. Also, the dustbowl, left drought everywhere and made the land unfarmable. Basically, it ruined it and made life unbearable, which is why many people moved out to California.
2007-03-12 11:42:45 · answer #1 · answered by Roadkill 4 lunch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Great Depression hit urban and rural life. Some worse than others.
The Dust Bowl of Oklahoma, for instance, came at a time incidental to the general hard times blowing-away the topsoil and rendering the land useless for farming. It was like a kick in the head while they - the farmers - were down.
Wouldst that such times never happen again.
2007-03-12 12:01:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People were desperately poor, couldn't make a living in the rural areas, moved to the cities. Wasn't any better there for them either.
2007-03-12 11:46:39 · answer #3 · answered by Mary G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad said they'd ship a load of hogs to market and the trucking would cost more than they received for the pigs. They actually owed money after they sold their goods.
2007-03-12 11:50:28 · answer #4 · answered by slippped 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't study the whole effect, but from what I've heard for food and some money my grandfather and a lot of others spent it building the brick wall for the huge cemetery in the town where I grew up.
Not sure what my dad did, (he was born a year after my grandfather)
2007-03-12 11:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by Mystee_Rain 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋