Social Studies Weekly - Week 24 Why Do People Move?

When there is not enough rain there may be a _________

• drought

• religious

• famine

• overpopulation

When people are not allowed to worship the way they choose they may experience ___________

• blight

• Grapes of Wrath

• scarcity

• religious persecution

__________ is when there is not enough of something

• drought

• scarcity

• famine

• Dust Bowl

The dry area in the plains in the 1930s and 1940s had the nickname of the _______

• overpopulation

• Grapes of Wrath

• Dust Bowl

• blight

when food is so scarce that people are staving

• blight

• famine

• drought

• scarcity

migrants to a new country are looking for a better ____________

• life

• drought

• blight

• religious persecution

when there are too many people living in the same area it is called

• Grapes of Wrath

• population

• overpopulation

• persecution

the book written about the hard times of people moving to California from the plains in the '30s and '40s was called the "___________"

• blight

• Grapes of Wrath

• Dust Bowl

• drought

a plant disease

• life

• drought

• blight

• famine

The worst famine in this country's history happened in 1884 and 1885 was called __________.

• Irish Potato Famine

• Potato Shortage

• Tomato Famine of 1800s