On April 20, 1931, construction of America's savior of the Great Depression began. That day began one of America’s greatest engineering achievements and that has forever amazed the world with it’s ingenious ingenuity and structure of design. The Hoover Dam was by far the greatest achievement of mankind during the turn of the twentieth century. Due to the Dam’s concave structure, it gives off an arch-gravity design that allows the water of the Hoover Dam to become divided in an ingenious way. The pure planning and design of the dam was so strategically calculated that not one man nor company could have possibly made it happen. So with the creation of Six Companies, the Hoover Dam not only made life in the desert possible at the time, but it
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After the stock market crashed, America's economy had hit a critical blow. Millions of Americans were becoming unemployed and businesses were suffering nationwide. Farmers were also suffering greatly but it wasn’t just due to the Dust Bowl. In the west long before the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, farmers of the west were plagued by constant floods and droughts from the Colorado River. At first, people sought to use the river for travel purposes but many failed due to the rivers raging rapids. So once it has been finalized that the river cannot be used for travel, many gave up on the idea of using the river. However one man named Oliver M. Wozencraft thought to use the river to irrigate the southwest. Unfortunately the government would not support his idea, however canals were formed all the way to Yuma, AZ. Due to the canals being built for agriculture, it helped bring attention to the Colorado River for whenever it rained in the desert, the river would overflow and cause floods from the water going over the canals. Crops, houses, and people would all be burdened and suffer due to the dam so the government finally decided that a dam had to be built to tame the fierce Colorado …show more content…
Other influences such as health issues or non worker related deaths have been recorded as well to the number. So there was no complete accurate number. In fact there is no record of deaths that occurred after the construction was done but it was due to the poor safety conditions from the construction. There is also no information based around the negative effects of the Hoover Dam for there is mainly only the good effects of it. Such as how the Hoover Dam helped rebuild America's economy thanks to it’s job demand, as well as forming cities such as Las Vegas that now required more workers to expand its regions. In the end however, not much resources revolving around the number of fatalities and concrete blocks used are only
After the stock market crashed, America's economy had hit a critical blow. Millions of Americans were becoming unemployed and businesses were suffering nationwide. Farmers were also suffering greatly but it wasn’t just due to the Dust Bowl. In the west long before the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, farmers of the west were plagued by constant floods and droughts from the Colorado River. At first, people sought to use the river for travel purposes but many failed due to the rivers raging rapids. So once it has been finalized that the river cannot be used for travel, many gave up on the idea of using the river. However one man named Oliver M. Wozencraft thought to use the river to irrigate the southwest. Unfortunately the government would not support his idea, however canals were formed all the way to Yuma, AZ. Due to the canals being built for agriculture, it helped bring attention to the Colorado River for whenever it rained in the desert, the river would overflow and cause floods from the water going over the canals. Crops, houses, and people would all be burdened and suffer due to the dam so the government finally decided that a dam had to be built to tame the fierce Colorado …show more content…
Other influences such as health issues or non worker related deaths have been recorded as well to the number. So there was no complete accurate number. In fact there is no record of deaths that occurred after the construction was done but it was due to the poor safety conditions from the construction. There is also no information based around the negative effects of the Hoover Dam for there is mainly only the good effects of it. Such as how the Hoover Dam helped rebuild America's economy thanks to it’s job demand, as well as forming cities such as Las Vegas that now required more workers to expand its regions. In the end however, not much resources revolving around the number of fatalities and concrete blocks used are only