Matthew's US History Blog: The 1930s

Hoover said it would be over in 60 days, when it lasted for years
Hoover didn't think the government should offer help to the poverty stricken
People associated all the success in the 20s as earned, so they did the same with all the failure in the 30s as earned too
This was invalid, it the Depression was caused by the stock market crash, something that had to do with the extreme imbalance of the extremely wealthy and the lower class

I would have feared for my life, it seemed like every person's story was life threatening
During the storm I would be wondering if I would even come out alive
After the storm I would question if I needed to move my family to a safer, more suitable place to live our lives

The western third of Kansas, Southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico were affected by the drought
Improper farming techniques my so many of the settlers loosened up the top soil, and when the wind blew, the soil went with it
Yes, America was out of balance, America went from the Roaring 20s, to the Great Depression in the matter of a day. The whole country was out of balance

By 1940 2.5 million people had moved out of the plains
It was the largest migration in US history
Californians did not give the people coming into California a warm welcome
Police were set up at borders telling all the "undesirables" they couldn't come in
Many of the farmers that tried to farm in California, were put onto big, corporate farms that were unfamiliar to them
They made very little money, so that way they could buy overpriced groceries and rent a little shack with no water, plumbing, or electricity

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