Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1933 was one of the government policies put into place to try and help. It was established by the Roosevelt Administration. They had recognized that something needed to change and something great had to be done in the agricultural industry or else they risked letting the entire economy fail. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration program attempted to keep families on their farms. The farmers that lived in the great plains supported this act because they got rewarded for not planting all of their land. They were rewarded for this because the government was trying to fight overproduction. However, outrage hits when the Supreme Court deemed this act unconstitutional. The Roosevelt Administration attempted
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Oxford’s main argument talks about how it was the worst man-made disaster in world history and states, “A study of man’s relationship to man’s relationship to land was exploitative that he had paid for the price foolishly destroying the ecological balance of the plains.” Another review made by University of Nebraska Press supports Worster’s statement as follows, “The Dust Bowl like The Great Depression who’s causes were deeply entrenched by American economic ethos.” These reviews both exemplify his theme of the book; the lifestyle and adversities, Dust Bowl, and the economy behind it. However, Dust Bowl by Paul Bonnifield thinks differently from Worster’s position. Bonnifield was a member of Panhandle State University, where he was intrigued by The Dust Bowl, where he faithfully recorded what he had found, but should have researched more local sources that gave him more insights. Bonnifield used his evidence and had generalized the whole area that gave the readers a narrow and chauvinistic perspective. He had used interviews and local sources. Which is a weakness because even though it was interviews, it had failed to give a good overall of the event and the lasting impacts it had. Whereas Worster, in contrast use insights from his upbringing, experience books, journals, sources, and reports that provided him a broader perspective of the world. Also, Donald Worster claims people were caught in big economic culture and demands. He believes that migrants were, “victims of the exploitative agriculture system: of tractors, one-crop specialization, tenant insecurity, disease, and soil abuse.” Where in contrast, Bonnifield he does not believe the migrants going to California were not
Oxford’s main argument talks about how it was the worst man-made disaster in world history and states, “A study of man’s relationship to man’s relationship to land was exploitative that he had paid for the price foolishly destroying the ecological balance of the plains.” Another review made by University of Nebraska Press supports Worster’s statement as follows, “The Dust Bowl like The Great Depression who’s causes were deeply entrenched by American economic ethos.” These reviews both exemplify his theme of the book; the lifestyle and adversities, Dust Bowl, and the economy behind it. However, Dust Bowl by Paul Bonnifield thinks differently from Worster’s position. Bonnifield was a member of Panhandle State University, where he was intrigued by The Dust Bowl, where he faithfully recorded what he had found, but should have researched more local sources that gave him more insights. Bonnifield used his evidence and had generalized the whole area that gave the readers a narrow and chauvinistic perspective. He had used interviews and local sources. Which is a weakness because even though it was interviews, it had failed to give a good overall of the event and the lasting impacts it had. Whereas Worster, in contrast use insights from his upbringing, experience books, journals, sources, and reports that provided him a broader perspective of the world. Also, Donald Worster claims people were caught in big economic culture and demands. He believes that migrants were, “victims of the exploitative agriculture system: of tractors, one-crop specialization, tenant insecurity, disease, and soil abuse.” Where in contrast, Bonnifield he does not believe the migrants going to California were not