... and prices dropped throughout the 1930's, making it difficult for the unemployed and small businessmen to buy the goods needed to help them get through their daily lives. Therefore, tens of thousands of people were dependent on government relief, charity and food handouts for daily survival. However, the people that did not qualify for relief ended up starving. As the Great Depression ... and dry winds caused the complete downfall to the prairies during the Great Depression. To make matters worse, plagues of locusts came upon the prairies in 1932. The insects swept across the prairies i...

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