The Great Depression

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Great Depression and Dustbowl Overview

Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother”

Internet Researcher: _Erette Bobbitt_

1. Read the two first paragraph of the Website http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm According to the author, by the time Franklin D. Roosevelt took office:

the unemployment rose from  8  to 15 million   ;

the Gross National Product fell from 103.8   to  55.7 billion ;

and 40   % of the farms in Mississippi were in foreclosure.

1. How did the economic crisis impact schools?

Shortened the school day and the school year

1. In the fourth paragraph the authors describe two approaches to local protest.  Select one of the protests and describe what the protest involved.

Neighbors of farms that had been foreclosed refused to bid on that farm and the moved the evicted farmers’ furniture back into their houses, they called this ‘farm holidays!

1. This Site briefly mentions the Dustbowl.  Go to http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm to learn more.  Scroll down and use the map to identify which states were affected.

1. Read the fourth paragraph (one before timeline).  Describe what caused the Dustbowl.

Rough droughts caused crops to die and dust from the over plowed and over grazed land began to blow around.

1. Think about what you’ve read on each Site.  In your opinion, how did the DustboProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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   crops were going bad and this drove the prices up. SO the lack of food hurt people that needed it and the lack of food caused the prices to sky rocket.

2. Find something, which interests you on either Website to share with your class.

In 1932 there were 14 dust storms the next year there were…..38

Something Permanent By Cynthia Rylant

Mule

He loved her,

though he never let on,

and not just because having her

raised him up the social ladder

a notch.

No, because she had a hell of a

sense of humor

and seemed to enjoy his company

more than most.

He knew better than to get attached

to a mule,

because one season of bad crops

and he’d be back to

pushing the plow himself,

selling her for beans and lard and

trying to forget he’d almost

turned her into something permanent.

A friend.

Cinquain poem

Tractor

Desolate, Abandoned

unmoving, rusting, deteriorating

As useless as the dark side of the moon

Plow

Double Journal Entry