... unbearable, packed up and headed out to California, where they were looked down upon. One such fictional family, the Joads, is told of in John Steinbeck's epic novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Mr. Donner, who had moved out to Dubuque, began laboring for the WPA, a program enacted to create jobs and complete public ... a lot to remain together. Men were usually very proud, and it upset them that they were unable to provide for their families. Women and children understood this, and traditional American values shown through unspeakable hardship. The board game Monopoly was invented in 1933, and...

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... and extreme winds developed into "black blizzards", where a wall of dust and smoke turns midday into night. Life turned into a struggle for almost all families located in the southern Great Plains, especially farmers (Bonnifield np). Children began to wear facemasks to serve as protection from the pungent smoke and women strung wet sheets over windows to stop the dust and dirt. A mass ... migration of families began, "Okies and Arkies" traveled west to California with their families, desperately searching for work. Farmers tried desperately to plant, but without water and nutritious soi...

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