Value: 3
Match the items to describe what life was like in urban and rural America.
a. Families doubled up in housing to try to survive, but they often had to seperate and send their kids to live with extended family
members.
b. Families struggled to breathe and could not keep their homes clean.
c. Empty factories cause men to have to leave their families to find work elsewhere.
d. Many families lost their incomes and food sources and became dependent on charity, lost their homes, and/or moved to find
opportunities in migrant fields in California and elsewhere.
e. Dried out farmlands and drought create massive dust storms that cover large areas, bury property, kill livestock, and make
people sick.
1. Urban Workers
2. Rural Dust Storms
3. Urban Families
4. Rural Families
5. Both Urban and Rural
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