The Dust Bowl was the name given to the great plains region that was devastated by the drought in the 1930s depression ridden America. By the year 1940, more than 2.5 million people had fled from the regions affected by the dust bowl. The dust bowl to the artist John Steinbeck signified the final destruction of the old Jeffersonian ideal of agrarian harmony with nature.
The answer choice 2) is correct.
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