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To forget the sadness they went through because of the dust bowl, the men would create songs about what they were going through

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Once they arrived to places in the West most jobs were taken and they didn't have any where to stay so they had to stay in community homes for workers.

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The Black Blizzards cause much devastation yet families had to provided for their kids and find jobs as laborers and other things after they moved

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1930 to 1940 | Steinbeck in the Schools | San Jose State University

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A brief essay discussing the 1930s as they connect to the works of John Steinbeck.

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Many people were not in living conditions where the Dust Bowl had hit so they were forced to migrate and many people moved West.

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The press called them Dust Bowl refugees, although actually few came from the area devastated by dust storms. Instead they came from a broad area encompassing four southern plains states: Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri. More than half a million left the region in the 1930s, mostly heading for California.

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The areas that where greatly impacted were Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas

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The Dustbowl started in the middle of the US and toward the south , it was a great storm that affected agriculture badly.

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The Modern American Poetry Site is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern and contemporary American poetry. MAPS welcomes submissions of original essays and teaching materials related to MAPS poets and the Anthology of Modern American Poetry. We are also happy to take questions and suggestions for future materials.

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The Dust Bowl ruined much of the rural land which wasn't good for the people would made profit from farming and left them jobless.