In the rural areas, the price of crops went way down because of overproduction by farmers. Many people couldn't support their families by farming anymore, and lost their houses due to forcloser. 400,000 farms were lost due to this. As a result, people do tenant farming; the red cross helped support farmers and their families. Farmers hadn't learned about crop rotation, which kept nutrients in the soil better. The soil was nearly destroyed because of this.
The Dust Bowl happened from 1935 to 1940. It affected states such as Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and more. This occured partly because of farmers not correctly farming. The dust had spread from the middle of the U.S. to the Atlantic Ocean. In order to prevent this from happening again, the government set up classes to teach farmers about good irrigation and crop rotation. This added another great problem during the Great Depression.
Many people believed that women should give their jobs to the men back then. Education wasn't very well distributed during the depression. People either couldn't afford to go to school or schools were closed. Kids hadn't been eating very well, had run away and become box car kids, and died from either tresspassing or starvation.
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