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Culture and

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She was an American writer, most famous for her inclusion in the "Lost Generation" movement following World War I, and for her "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."

This 20th century American writer is best known for his 1925 work "The Great Gatsby" which told of the wealth and opulence of the Jazz Age.

He was an American author whose works included "," "," and "The Sun Also Rises."

This is a nickname given to a group of American artists and authors who lived in after World War I.

This Alabama woman was a prolific artist and writer wife of the author of "The Great Gatsby."

This 1926 by told of Americans traveling to Europe and was the first to popularize the term "Lost Generation."

This 1925 American novel told of one man's life of excess while pursuing the "American Dream" during the Jazz Age.

Known for its angular and "broken" images, this style of art was popularized by and in the early 20th century.

He was a Spanish artist who, in the early 20th century, pioneered the Cubist style of painting.

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The Dust Bowl hit the middle of the United States and Canada from roughly, 1930 to 1936. For some 6 years, some or most of Kansas, , Texas,

New Mexico, and Colorado were decimated by the Dust Bowl. It was a disaster caused by a combination of man-made and made circumstances.

During the first decades of the 1900s, farmers in the mid-west were producing crops at a staggering rate. Not only were they feeding most of the United States but during World War I,

they were even helping feed as well, in addition to keeping fed the American soldiers that eventually went off to fight over there. In order to keep

demand up and incomes coming in, farmers failed to their crops, or keep some land , meaning the soil

became overworked and depleted of its nutrients. In 1929 and 1930, a descended on the region, causing crops to die. As a result, any wind in the

region would kick up loose dirt which would cause a that would inundate entire towns and counties.

Over one hundred million acres of farmland were ruined causing hundreds of thousands of people to leave the mid-west in an attempt to find work. Most thought there would be work

for them in , but as this was during the heart of the . There was little work to be had, and people lived in

squalor and desperation during this time. The journey of hopelessness of these - as they were called- was told in

1937 , Of Mice and Men, and his 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath.