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week 7 ecological impact of the introduction of intensive agriculture to…
week 7 ecological impact of the introduction of intensive agriculture to the Great Plains, and how that social effects of that impact rippled into other parts of the West, especially California.
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ecological :evergreen_tree: relating to or concerned with the relation of living organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
great plains area 625000 sq mil and 400 mil acres, cattlemens paradise. country without rivers and without rain.
last frontier, plowman came to the plains
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homestead act, farmland for sale
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The Migrant Experience
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veryday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.
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seven-year drought began in
1931, followed by the coming of dust storms in 1932, many of the
farms literally dried up and blew away creating what became
known as the "Dust Bowl."
Driven by the Great Depression,
drought, and dust storms, thousands of farmers packed up their
families and made the difficult journey to California where they
hoped to find work
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As World War II wore on, the state of the economy, both in
California and across the nation, improved dramatically as the
defense industry geared up to meet the needs of the war effort.
Many of the migrants went off to fight in the war.
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Dust Bowl Migrations
Sunday, April 14,
1935, is still remembered as “Black Sunday.”
Roadside
camps proliferated,
In Los
Angeles, the chief of police authorized policemen to
act as “bouncers” at the state border
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Documentary Chronology of Selected Events in the Development of the American Conservation Movement 1847-1871
1847George Perkins Marshcalling attention to the
destructive impact of human activity on the land, Vermont
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How possible is it to understand the history of the West without prioritizing environmental factors?
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