Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
... And then the (migrants) were drawn west - from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas families, tribes,
dusted out, tractored out (to California). (They went by the ) carloads, [in] caravans, (they were) homeless and hungry; [in huge
numbers...) twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the
mountains, hungry and restless-restless as ants, scurrying to find work - to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut - anything, any [work
they could find), for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land [for
the land they had lost]
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The movement of the people described in this passage was primarily the result of the
O construction of the interstate highway system.
dust bowl conditions on the Great Plains.
o overpopulation of the Midwest caused by the Homestead Act
low cost of the machinery needed to maintain family farms.
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