Friday, January 23, 2009

1930's-The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl

To live in the 1930's was very hard. The decade began with the Great Depression(Wall Street crashed on October 29, 1929). The Dust Bowl, caused by a very dry windy drought in the Midwest. If you had money you were probably going to make it out of the depression. However if you lived in the Midwest chances are you had very little money and you farmed. Many people traveled to the west coast in search of work. One of those men was Woody Guthrie one of America's greatest folk artisits.

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