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The Dust Bowl Migration: Route 66 and the Okies

Agriculture, Overproduction, and the Dust Bowl Disaster

6th Grade·Social Studies·US-NJ-SS

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Trace the mass westward migration of displaced farm families along Route 66 to California and analyze the economic and social obstacles they encountered.

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Agriculture, Overproduction, and the Dust Bowl Disaster

6th Grade · Social Studies · US-NJ-SS

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Examine how industrial farming techniques, agricultural overproduction, and severe drought created the Dust Bowl and worsened the Great Depression.

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6.1.12.GeoHE.9.aNew Jersey Social Studies Standards · 6th Grade

Determine how agricultural practices, overproduction, and the Dust Bowl intensified the worsening economic situation during the Great Depression.