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over purduction of crops made them go in to debt so ppl couldnt support their familes 400000 thousands fram where lost in that era they had tenet farms so they did lose there farms farmers lost there houses cuz the couldnt pay the bank for their loans but they had the advantage of growing and canning there own food women had to learn differnt techniques to help their familes

 

crop rotaion beans one year corn the next and visversa keeps nutrients in the ground by 1932 it happend in the great plains dust stroms where bad and if you were out side you would suffacate pretty much and ppl wouldnt even go out side cuz ppl were scared it was a counisidence it happend in the 1930

 

men on the street

they would wonder so they could find jobs and and hard to keep a stead job you would do whatever to do for that day to get food on the table looked for odd jobs if you had kept your job with same pay and hours you were pretty good

 

women had to find ways to save money they made closed canned food and did odd jobs and she would try to find a job as well most ppl thought guys should give up there jobs for men guys were the bread winner women were to proud and would rather eat a craker a day rather than stead in bread lines

 

children suffer hard ships they kids would miss alot of schools and there tearms were short and teachers rushed through things and alot of schools shut down they suffered in the dust bowl cuz babies in haled to much dust  kids stared kids ran away and went to the trains and they were only on the streets for  3 to six months alot of kids got rickets for kids cuz lack of nutrition

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