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Great Depression Dbq

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In the 1930‟s and years to follow, a lot of people in the U.S felt the hardships that had been caused by the “Great Depression”. Families in the Plains, a term used to refer to the areas near Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska, and Kansas, were hit hard by the Dust Bowl, to make matters even worse, Dozens of “dust storms” obliterated people's crops , for some the only source of money. Millions upon millions of acres of land became full of dust that the soil was not suitable for the growth of food anymore. This made life even more difficult for the people in this region because their homes, the only places they have ever known, had become ruined and torn down due to the sheer amounts of dust. This setback had caused a lot of people to pack

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