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"Many of the refugees pinned their hopes for a better life on California".

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A complex set of interacting forces both economic and ecological brought the migrant workers to California.
In 1929 the stock market crashed which only served to worsen this already fragile economic situation.
Great Depression drought and dust storms.
The states mild climate gave hope to the farmers.

California was not the promise land  the migrants' dreamed of.
The "ditchbanks" camps fostered poor sanitary conditions and created a public health problem. People where getting sick while trying to make there lives better.
Even with an entire family working, migrants could not support themselves on these low wages.

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The lost of their farms and the Great Depression caused thousands of farmers to journey to California to find jobs.

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California had a huge influx of immigrants and they reached the carrying capacity so California had a very unbalanced population because people were only living where the work was.

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In order to maintain a steady income, workers had to follow the harvest around the sate (California).

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Thousand of farmers packed up their families and made the difficult journey to California where they hoped to find work.

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Refugees went to California in search of a better life.

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There wasn't a lot of work for people so they started moving westward to find it.

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They wanted money and land

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Workers migrated to find a better life due to the stock market crash of 1929. Crops were worth less so they moved to find better land where the season was longer, and the climate was warmer.

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In the text it states that, "Many independent farmers lost their farms when banks came...Driven by the Great Depression thousands of farmers packed up their families and made the difficult journey to California where they hoped to find work."

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Refugees wanted to go to California because, the states mild climate season can make crops grow a diversity.

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People migrated to California only to realize that life wasn't any better over there.

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California was kind of in bad shape at the time so people were getting turned away at the border because it couldn't take anymore people than it already had.

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When migrants were not working/ looking for work they engaged in recreational activities such as singing and making music. The majority took an inspiration from our music as well (such as gospel or our popular music back then)

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People without jobs in California spent their time singing and making music.

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California was not the promised land of the migrants' dream.

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Following World War I, a recession led to a drop in the market price of farm crops and caused Great Plains farmers to increase their productivity through mechanization and the development of more land.

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Conditions were very bad in the fact that people were living in ditch-bank camps which harbored poor sanitary conditions and created a big public health issue.

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principle applied to harvesting cotton, lemons oranges, peas, and other crops. For this reason, migrant population were most dense in agricultural centers.

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Workers had to follow the harvest around the state.

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In the end of the third paragraph it says "These "Ditchbank" camps fostered poor sanitary conditions and created a public health problem." This evidence shows that the camps became very unsanitary over time and created dangerous diseases and illnesses for the public living in them.

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Low wages because surplus of people westward.

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California had became very over populated with immigrants and it had turned into a sort of slum with the lack of work available  " Those who did cross into California found that the available labor pool was disproportionate to the number of job openings"

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"O.K. Someday--we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and-----"
"An' live off the fatta the lan' " Lennie shouted.

This connects to the Migrant Land article because George and Lennie want to reach a more full and richer life by living and working on a ranch and living with animals and crops and etc. like how the migrants traveled to California to plant more crops and work for what they want/need. George and Lennie are traveling to find a place where they can live the "American Dream"

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"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're pounding their tail on some other ranch." This quote relates to the Migrant Worker Article because everyone was trying to find work and when that work was done, they got up and went somewhere else to work.

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"i could eat any place i want, hotel or any place, and order any damn thing i could think of." He thinks he could live by himself but many migrant workers couldn't support themselves even with the whole family working.

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""He took on an elaborate manner of little girls when they are mimicking one another. "Jus' wanted to feel that girl's dress-just wanted to pet it like a mouse.""

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"Well, we ain't got any," George exploded. "Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want."

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Mice and Men quote and connection to Migrant Worker.

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Mice and Men quote and connection to Migrant Worker.

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The quote on pg 8 "George lay where he was and whistled to himself." connects to the Migrant Worker article because when the people migrated to California and grew bored, they would make up songs and sing in their free time. During this part of Mice and Men, George is trying to relax and whistle to himself to waste some time.

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"An' whatta I got," George went on furiously. "I got you! You can't keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get. Jus' keep me shovin' all over the country all the time. " Pg. 11