Question

Which of the following BEST explains the migration westward from the Great Plains of America in the

1930s?
People living in the Great Plains of America during the 1930s heard of gold in California and headed
west to stake their claims.
O People who had been sharecroppers and tenant farmers migrated to California to find work after poor
farming practices and a ten-year drought caused the farmland of the Great Plains to become barren.
O People were lured westward from the Great Plains by an award of an acre of land and a mule being
given to anyone who would homestead land in California and promise to stay on the land for at least a
year. 
People of the Great Plains migrated westward in the 1930s because banks created a program to extend
new loans to farmers if they would migrate to California to begin a new life and promise to homestead
on a farm for two years.

Answer 1

Answer: B - People who had been sharecroppers and tenant farmers migrated to California to find work after poor

farming practices and a ten-year drought caused the farmland of the Great Plains to become barren.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was an era when dust storms, erosion, and drought destroyed the topsoil and devastated the ecology and agricultural practices in the great plain as a result of the over-farming practices of farmers ad sharecroppers. This period witnessed the highest migration from the great plain to California as farmers and sharecroppers whose farms and agricultural products had been destroyed by the Dust Bowl had to migrate for greener pastures.