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Face masks were issued especially to school children because breathing became difficult. One-hundred million acres were turned into wastelands. The “Dust Bowl” as one journalist called it, clouded the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal offered help from the government to the people affected. A more…

It is completely mind-blowing to realize that the Dust Bowl actually happened in the United States not too long ago! The hardships that these families endured while living there, like losing their family farms and many of their belongings, is heart-breaking. What is even sadder is that the banks and government acted like they didn’t know who was to blame for the evicting! The social and economic issues of the 1930s were very problematic and the programs of the New Deal attempted to help get…

faced a series of challenges beyond the widely discussed stock market crash and emerging distrust of the American financial system. These challenges include the struggle to find work with reasonable pay and the abandonment of farms within the Dust Bowl. Sources describe how these challenges manifested in a large migration of poverty stricken Americans from their native states into the agricultural regions of California. This paper will look at such sources to expound on the experiences of…

identifying one of the big themes we saw with our prior knowledge of the Dust Bowl as migration, and how the movement of people and their identities played a role in how events and responses unfolded in the advent of a natural catastrophe. From there, we discovered that we were both passionate about teaching on marginalized histories, and after hearing the statistic that 95% of Americans living in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl were white, we knew we wanted to focus on the non-white 5%.…

watch the Super Bowl, an all-out battle of two teams fighting for a trophy and recognition as world champions. The friends, families, co-workers, and any other large groups of people use this connection of football to bond and gain enjoyment out of the event produced by large corporations. While people are using this enjoyment to brighten their mood and have a good time, corporations are profiting large amounts of money at time individuals spend in front of their television. The Super Bowl has…

The Super Bowl is one of the most anticipated events each year, but not only for the game, some watch just for the commercials. With millions of viewers these commercials get seen everywhere and are sure to leave an affect on viewers whether they realize it or not. It is important to analyze these commercials and study the stereotypes that are being portrayed. There have been many studies focusing on the Super Bowl and how the advertisements are portrayed, since there is such a large audience…

Pioneers settled in the Great Plains started in Kansas—Nebraska an went westward. The Dust Bowl and the Depression of the 1930s caused settlers to retreat. There was an abundance of land and pioneers were eager to go west to settle and claim the land. The land could be cultivated to raise crops. The two main problems that the settlers faced were weather and the distance. The weather was a big problem, with blizzards, hail, and high winds and cold temperatures. In the summer there were…

boiling temperatures, and thousands of deaths, the Dust Bowl not only killed many Americans in the central United States, but also triggered one of the most financial downfalls in American history, the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl was the area of parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and New Mexico in the 1930s that experienced strong dust storms and lack of water, causing a drought. Although many factors can be accounted for the causes of the Dust Bowl, the main reason is farmers excessively…

All of this lead to the start of the Dust Bowl and a miserable decade for the Great Plains area. The Dust Bowl negatively affected people during the drought and dust storms by causing a major loss in money and sending people cross-country for work; therefore, entities including the government helped out with the problems by creating new legislation. People’s life-spans and health declined due to the detrimental effects of the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl increased the length of the Great…

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