Objective To examine the causes and effects of the Dust Bowl Carloads caravans homeless and hungryThey streamed over the mountains hungry and restlessrestless as ants scurrying to find work to do to lift to push to pull to pick to cut anything any burden to bear for ID: 397278
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THE DUST BOWL
Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the Dust Bowl.Slide2
“Carloads, caravans, homeless and hungry:…They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless,…restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do – to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut – anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most all for land.
We ain’t foreign. Seven generations back Americans, and beyond that Irish, Scotch, English, German. One of our folks in the Revolution, an’ they was lots of our folks in the Civil War – both sides.
Americans.” How many examples of tragedy can you identify?
Read the following
Passage from
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of
Wrath.Slide3
The Dust Bowl
During the 1930’s, the Great Plains suffered from deadly dust storms.Slide4
Causes of the Dust Bowl:
Overgrazing by
cattle
New Technology Steel plows and tractors
Over use of plowing by
farmers destroyed the grasses that once held down the soil.Slide5
The loose soil, a drought, and high winds helped to cause the Dust Bowl.
Dust Storms: Colorado, Easter Sunday 1935
Dust Storms; "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934" Slide6
Effects of the
Dust
Bowl:
Farmers
could barely make a
living
They can not make payments to Banks
causing
many to leave their homes for the west.Slide7
Farm foreclosure and property
sale in
Kansas. Slide8
Families
on the road with all their possessions packed into their trucks, migrating and looking for work
.
Many farmers became migrant farmers as they moved from region to region looking for work.Slide9Slide10
.
Migrant
farmers from Oklahoma became known as Okies.
Migrant
farmers from Arkansas became known as Arkies.Slide11
2.5
million people abandoned their homes in
the
Great Plains during the
Dust Bowl
and went on the road
.
Many heading to California Slide12
Migration Routes Slide13
More Workers,
Than
Jobs
Okies
and Arkies not wanted out West.
Migrant
family looking for work in the pea fields of California
. Slide14
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother,"
Florence
Owens
Thompson destitute
in a pea picker's camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop.
She
had just sold their
tires in
order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute. By the end of the decade there were still 4 million migrants on the road.