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Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

SOCIOLOGY

ON "THE MICE AND MAN"
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WHAT WAS THE DUST BOWL?

Escalating jobless and severe drought greatly affected the Great Plains with insufficient rain to produce wheat and cotton to their expectations.

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WHAT WERE ITS NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON WORKERS?

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As people were growing desperate for a job or food; migrants started working for way less than they deserved and farm owners where taking advantage of their desperate situation.

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WHAT ABOUT ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE?

The dust bowl produced an ecological disaster by creating wind driven dust storms that affected a broad swath of countries in Western Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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WHY DID WORKERS CAME TO CALIFORNIA IN 1930'S?

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They were hoping for a better life in the west as the Dust Bowl didn't left to them as it produced droughts that took over farms.

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They were pushed by the dust bowl which left them with no crops to sell and to bankrupt; they lost their lands and had to move.

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