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They took up the work of Mexican migrant workers, 120,000. They were paid by the quantity of fruit and cotton picked with earnings ranging from seventy-five cents to $1.25 a day.

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About 125 officers were sent to the border of California to turn away the people because they had already to many people.

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2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states. About 200,000 of them moved to California.

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The fall of 1939, rain began to fall. The drought that lasted almost ten years and costs millions of dollars was over.

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Crops would not grow and livestock were often choked to death by the dust. Living in the Dust Bowl became hard

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Poor farmers who moved from the Dust Bowl to California were called "Okies." Many farmers and their families moved out to California because they heard of opportunities.

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The farmers were tired of always trying to keep the dust out of their homes. So they started moving out out the prairies.

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The dust storms were caused by the dry lands, the lands were dry because of the lack of rain since that year there was climate change.

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The bigger dust storms were called black blizzards. The biggest dust storm is called black Sunday it occurred on a Sunday in April.