History of the United States II / Unit 10 USH2 1383 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Leaving the Plains
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The idea
Families from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas who were baked out, blown out and broke headed west to California, the Yawp says.
In practice
States including California setting up border blockades against poor migrants in the winter of nineteen thirty-five.
Where people slip
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath made their story famous. It appeared in nineteen thirty-nine.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
Unlocks
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