Question

In the early 1930s, why did so many farmers lose their land?

Answer 1

The Dust Bowl

Explanation:

In the Thirties, farmers had known more than ten years of failure since the crisis in farming started in the twenties as they had fed Europe during WWI and increased their crops, and once the war was over they had no markets in Europe left.

In the thirties difficulties heaped just like the Dust Bowl, one of the worst ecological disasters in American History. It ruined crops and therefore led a great number of farmers to bankruptcy. Banks seized the lands as they were were unable to pay back their loans.

The Grapes of Wrath , both the novel and the movie well feature the plight of farmers during the Great Depression by depicting the hardships of an Oklahoma family.