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Summary by Danny Judd
The Great Depression threatened people's jobs, savings, and even their homes and farms. At the depths of the depression, over one-quarter of the American workforce was out of work. For many Americans, these were hard times.The economic troubles of the 1930s were worldwide in scope and effect. Economic instability led to political instability in many parts of the world. Political chaos, in turn, gave rise to dictatorial regimes such as Adolf Hitler's in Germany and the military's in Japan. -
Summary continued by Danny Judd
these regimes pushed the world ever-closer to war in the 1930s. When world war finally broke out in both Europe and Asia, the United States tried to avoid being drawn into the conflict. But so powerful and influential a nation as the United States could scarcely avoid involvement for long. -
Fact 2 By Danny Judd
When drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor, so the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled it into dense dust clouds, called “black blizzards. -
Fact 1 by Danny Judd
The Dust Bowl happened in in 1930. And in a 150,000-square-mile area, encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination. -
Fact 4 By Danny Judd
For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life — breathing, eating a meal, taking a walk — were no longer simple. Children wore dust masks to and from school, women hung wet sheets over windows in a futile attempt to stop the dirt, farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away. -
fact 5 by Danny Judd
The most visible evidence of how dry the 1930s became was the dust storm. Tons of topsoil were blown off barren fields and carried in storm clouds for hundreds of miles. -
Fact 6 by Danny Judd
The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. More and more dust storms had been blowing up in the years leading up to that day. In 1932, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933, there were 38 storms. By 1934, it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the winds. By April 1935, there had been weeks of dust storms, but the cloud that appeared on the horizon that Sunday was the worst. Winds were clocked at 60 mph. -
primary source by Danny Judd (On the Road)
I observed that there were 4 pictures, a mimi pharagraph, tiltles, and one subtitle. What I reflected of this primary source is that mnay people's crops were messed up after the Dust Bowl. The bias of this reading was that it shoaw what people had back then. The mini pharagraph was about how people whos crops were dead had to pack up all there things in their cars or what ever they had and leave the area where they lived. -
fact 8 by Danny Judd
Drought first hit the country in 1930. By 1934, it had turned the Great Plains into a desert that came to be known as the Dust Bowl.In Oklahoma, the Panhandle area was hit hardest by the drought.The land of the southern plains, including Oklahoma, was originally covered with grasses that held the fine soil in place. -
Fact 3 By Danny Judd
When Franklin Roosevelt takes office, the country is in desperate straits. He will take quick steps to declare a four-day bank holiday, during which time Congress will come up with the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, -
fact 7 by Danny Judd
During the great dust storms of the 1930s in Oklahoma, the weather threw up so much dirt that, at times, there was zero visibility and everything was covered in dirt. No matter how tightly Oklahomans sealed their homes, they could not keep the dirt from entering. Dust storms were the result of drought and land that had been overused. -
primary source by Danny Judd(Life in the camps)
On my primary source I obesrved that there was 4 pictures a minni pharagraph and a title. For my reflection i said that many people were left homeless after the dust bowl. Some questions that i had how did people find food and water to eat and drink to survive. one possible bias was that the photos show what so people had to live in because of the effects of the Dust Bowl. The pharagraph was about how the people had to find shelters to live in.
