Section 1 - Question 5
Which of the following BEST explains the migration westward from the Great Plains of Amenca in the 1930s?

A. People living in the Great Plains of America during the 1930s heard of gold in California and headed west to stake their claims

B. People who had been sharecroppers and tenant farmers migrated to California to find work after over farming practices.

C:People were lured westward from the Great Plains by an award of an acre of land and a mule being given to anyone who would homestead land in California and promise to stay
on the land for at least a year

D. People of the Great Plains migrated westward in the 1930s because banks created a program to extend new loans to farmers if they would migrate to California to begin a new life and promise to homestead on a farm for two years

B - Those affected by the dust bowl that hit the great plain (which comprised of mostly farmers and sharecroppers) had to migrate to California as well as other States of the United States in search for work and other opportunities after suffering the effect of their over farming practices which culminated in the Dust Bowl.

Explanation:

The Dust Bowl of 1930s was an era when dust storm, erosion, and drought destroyed the topsoil and devastated the ecology and agricultural practices in the great plain as a result of over-farming practices of farmers ad sharecroppers. This period witnessed the highest migration from the great plain to California as farmers and sharecroppers whose farms and agricultural products had been destroyed by the Dust Bowl had to migrate for greener pastures.

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