17. What made many people move to California from the Great Plains?

18. How did the Great Depression affect Mexican-Americans?

19. What were Hoovervilles?

17. they hoped to start a new life after the dust bowl years that the weather destroyed all the crops and farms.

18. Along with job crisis and food shortages Mexican - Americans faced deportation.

19. Hoovervilles were shantytown that were made by homeless after the government failed to provide relief after the Great Depression.