Migrant/Travelling Workers Jeopardy (Of Mice and Men)

questions

200

This weather condition, combined with previous farming practices that overworked the land, was a primary cause of the soil blowing away in massive storms.

a severe drought (or lack of rain)

400

Over 250,000 migrants from the Southwest moved to this West Coast state between 1935 and 1940, significantly impacting its agricultural valleys.

California

600

People were often enticed westward by these printed materials, which advertised jobs picking crops, though the reality often involved labor far exceeding the available work.

Flyers

800

This famous photograph, taken by Dorothea Lange during the Dust Bowl, captures the struggle and despair of a migrant mother and her children.

"Migrant Mother"

1000

DOUBLE JEOPARDY (worth 2,000 points!): This four-letter pejorative term was used to describe all poverty-stricken migrants heading west, regardless of their actual state of origin, which often included Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas.

an "Okie"