1930s

patriotic music gained a lot of popularity amongst people. An excellent example is “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin who was one of the most famous composers at the time and the patriotic music he created was very popular amongst people. In the 1930’s, the Great Depression heavily impacted the economy of America, including the Musicals. There were approximately 5,000 actors and 20,000 more theater workers looking for work which shows how the Broadway musical started to decline in terms of…

hardships America went through in the 1930s, the American dream is not for everyone regardless of one’s hopes. Woody Guthrie is known as a “folk singer, composer, writer, and a homegrown radical… during the Great Depression” (“Woody Guthrie”). During his career, he wrote “This Land Is Your Land,” a poem that reflects Guthrie’s view of the hardships America was undergoing. Guthrie was born in Oklahoma in 1912; he was one of the many Dust-Bowl refugees during the 1930s. As a…

LeBlanc Anne R. Thomson English 102 19 July 2017 The Great Depression The Great Depression was a severe economic hardship for America that led to poverty, increased unemployment rates, worsened racial inequality, and starvation. The article, “The 1930s”, written by Bob Batchelor provides a summary of the adversities American citizens had to overcome during The Great Depression. According to Batchelor, The Great Depression was signaled when the stock market collapsed in October of 1929. Because…

world into what it has become today. The music of rock and roll influenced the social and cultural beliefs of youth and threatened the traditional values of society. The music and culture from late 1930s through 1940s began the influence of rock music before it was even called rock and roll. The 1930s saw natural disasters as well as man made ones. For most of the decade, folks in the…

decrease in population. In Grand Saline the population still fluctuated some, but there were both an increase and a decrease. From 1920 to 1930 the population took on a 17.8% increase in population heading into The Great Depression. This information seems to highlight that the population began to rise as Morton Salt started to make its imprint on the town. From 1930 to 1940 the population witnessed an 8.7% decrease in population. This is right around the time that most cotton farmers would be…

Olivia Morris Ms. Chackan Earth Science: Period 2 5 April 2016 What Caused the Dust Bowl? Suddenly, during the 1930s, out of nowhere these big storms of dust started to come. No one knew how these dust storms came or what they were. For many years now people have been trying to figure out what caused these terrible storms. According to the background essay and Donald Worster (Doc A.), the dust bowl was one of the hardest times. The storms ruined farmer’s crops, so then farmers could not get…

who worked for months to achieve the American Dream.The American dream was The opportunity to earn and make life delightful, regardless of your race or ethnicity. John Steinbeck shows the American dream as an Unachievable dream that people had in the 1930’s. As many Migrant workers, The main characters of the book George and Lennie also had an Idea of the American Dream, they just wanted some property of their own. A story that Lennie wants to hear over and over again, the story about…

The Great Depression the United States in the 1930s; the wealthy, the poor, and the rest of the world feeling its impact. During the Great Depression, man Americans lost their jobs, famers experienced the Dust Bowl, and women took care of their families with what little resources they had. With no system to help families that lost their source of income, 40 million people fell into poverty – most families unused to the pain of hunger and lack of funds to support their families. Although the…

Alexandre Hogue depicted rural farming through the lense of the Dust Bowl, a natural disaster that affected the Midwestern states in the 1930’s. In contrast to tragedy, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses since she started her career at age 78, portrayed…

The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. A total of 2.5 million people left the Plains states in the 1930s. Most moved to neighboring states, but some 460,000 people moved to the Pacific Northwest, where they found jobs in lumbering or building the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams More than 300,000 others moved to California (Gale - Enter Product Login ).The large movement was an effect of a natural climate change called The Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl is a situation…