The Great Migration

Question 1

How did the settlers of the Great Plains increase the vulnerability of the land? Check all of the boxes that apply.

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Farmers over-cultivated the land with plows.; Ranchers allowed their herds to overgraze.; Farmers planted shallow-rooted crops like wheat, which could not hold in the soil when high winds came.

Question 2

What caused dust storms to become even larger and more destructive in the 1930s?

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Severe droughts hit the Midwest, making the soil dry and more vulnerable to winds.

Question 3

Which development in the early 1900s made the land in the Great Plains even more vulnerable to erosion?

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People settled the region in greater numbers, increasing the amount of land being plowed and grazed.

Question 4

How did droughts and dust storms add to the problems farmers faced in the 1930s? Check all of the boxes that apply.

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Droughts deprived crops of the water they needed to grow.; Dust storms carried away fertile topsoil that crops needed to survive.; Droughts and dust storms deprived farmers of their primary source of income.

Question 5

Why did farmers move west during the 1930s? Check all of the boxes that apply.

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The Dust Bowl destroyed many farmers’ crops and land on the Plains.; Farmers believed that California would have better jobs.; Many farmers were forced to abandon their farms after going into debt.; Farmers did not want to work as tenants for commercial farms.

Question 6

The leaders of the US, USSR, and Great Britain said they wanted to cooperate, so why were negotiations at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences so difficult?

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Each country had its own agenda about the post-war world.

Question 7

Which of the following statements about the United States and the USSR are true?

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The nations had different systems of government and different economic systems.

Question 8

What was the “Iron Curtain” that Winston Churchill referred to?

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An imaginary line that separated communist countries from free countries in Europe

Question 9

Did you consider any of these reasons in your answer? Check all of the boxes that apply.

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the condition of the land in the Midwest; the challenges of making the journey west; the opportunities for new jobs in California; the problems migrants could face in California

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