Dust Bowl, 1929 Crash and the Joads' Journey
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Dust Bowl, 1929 Crash and the Joads' Journey
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2. There was an economic crisis known as the stock market crash of 1929.
3. There was less business activity, high unemployment, and many people also committed suicide.
4. They traveled westward, seeking jobs in California.
5. Some people lived in boxes, and others in cars or tents.
6. President Hoover.
7. The southwestern states. It received its name because the land became dry as powder and it was not raining.
8. Related to agriculture.
9. The money that was supposed to help migrant families went into the pockets of local officials.
10. They did not find good jobs or good pay.
11. They were settlers.
13. The pastor. He wants to visit the father of Tom Joad.
14. He was in jail because he killed a man in a fight.
15. He is released with a number of conditions.
16. No one was there in the house of his uncle John because they were raising money to buy a car to go west.
17. He says that there is a good life.
18. Muley was a neighbor and friend of the Joad family. His family is in California.
19. Muley was a neighbor and friend of the Joad family. Their family is in California.
20. Because Willy came, the sheriff.
21. In a cave that Tom had excavated several years ago.
23. That the lands were being impoverished. Those banks only wanted profits and could not wait for next year's crop.
24. She suffered a stomach ache but would not tell her husband or go to the doctor; he gave her some pills for the pain, and the next morning she was found dead with appendicitis.
25. Rosasharn is Tom's sister. She is married to Connie Rivers, and now she is expecting a child.
28. They killed the last pig that was left.
29. The grandfather stayed because he would not leave the country.
30. He said he felt ill after having coffee; the coffee had a medicine that made him sleepy, so he boarded a bus.
31. Some travelers who were in a passenger area camped; they were married and went to seek work as vegetable pickers in California. Both helped the Joads. Wilson helped with the burial of the grandfather, and Al's brother Tom helped with the arrangement of the car.
32. He was sick and got off the truck; they laid him in a shop, and that night he died. The grandfather buried him, and they could not afford to pay $40.