Dust Bowl

This is a presentation on the topics of: The Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, Bonnie and Clyde, Health/Disease, and Rag MusicBy: Erynn HegganOut of the Dust/ 1930s Research

Dust BowlTo meet the farmers needs for money, they had to expand their land and the land some of them had to use was sub marginal, or soil that has a poor amount of nutrients. When the farmers plowed this land, during the dry times of the season, it would blow into the wind. When the country went into the Great Depression, they had to plow more sub marginal land and thats when the drought started, the wind kicks up, the Black Blizzards start coming! There were less crops and less money because banks shut down and people lost the money they were saving. A lot of people were bankrupt and lost their homes. Dust Bowl (cont.)On April 14, 1935, was some thing Dust Bowlers will NEVER forget! It was the day of Black Sunday. The worst Dust Storm to ever hit during the entire period of time! It would just envelope whole cities in darkness. It ruined everything!The Great DepressionThe Great Depression started almost when the Dust Bowl started and ended. It was when the Stock Markets crashed in October of 1932. banks were forced to close, people became bankrupt, and people lost their jobs and homes. Also, People often road the rails in search of a job to do for money. The Dust Bowl added more stress onto the people of the 1930s because it made the Great Depression worse.Dust Bowl Pictures

Dry, cracked, and ruined land caused by the drought.A house that was ruined by the dust.People may be trying to go to California and are camping out here for a short while.Dust Bowl Pictures (cont.)

Hardest hit by the dust.Dust Bowl Pictures (cont.)

This sound plays automatically! Click to stop!A rising dust storm about to strike. It might be Black Sunday.

People are probably moving to California out of the dust.

The locusts that came and ate Dads crops and Mas apple trees.

Another rising dust storm. Dust Bowl Pictures (cont.)

A newspaper on one of the dust storms and it appears to be the day after black Sunday!

This sound plays automatically! Click to stop!Another about a dust storm. It does not say the date. Great Depression Pictures

A mother on her own with two children to take care of.

Children protesting about their parents loosing their jobs.

A child and a father that lost their home and are on their own.Great Depression Pictures(cont.)

Mom and son in a tent because they cannot afford their house anymore.

The Santa Ana Register reports on the day the stocks crash and the Great Depression begins.

Two children on their own without a Mother or Father, without a home.Great Depression Pictures(cont.)

A family could only buy this tiny little house. It might not even have a second room for the kitchen or a bedroom.Bonnie and ClydeBonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met January 1930 at a friends house. When they met, they were immediately smitten. Ever since, parker joined Barrow and went on their crime sprees as they approached their gory deaths. They robbed banks and murdered people. They were always wanted, and they killed a couple of cops just to keep from getting caught. Finally, it was the end and Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed and killed. These slaying people were finally no more in Bienville Parsh, Louisiana on May 23, 1934. The posse was lead by Frank Hamer a police officer. They were shot to death while driving.Bonnie and Clyde Pictures

The police found this picture of Bonnie and Clyde in their Missouri hideout.

Bonnie and Clydes grave and it looks like someone put carnations? I wonder why.Bonnie and Clyde Pictures(cont.)

Bonnie and Clyde wanted sign but the reward was actually $1,000 in Grapevine, Texas.

This is when people got the impression that Bonnie smoked cigars. The car that Bonnie and Clyde were killed in. They took at least 50 shots at the minimum because they didnt want to take any risks of them coming out alive.Bonnie and Clyde Pictures(cont.)

This is Clyde Barrows Grave. The other grave must have been for tourists.This is Bonnie Parkers real grave. Like I said, the other grave might have been for the tourists because they wrote on the fake one. Maybe they built the fake so they could protect the real one.Health/DiseasesThe major disease during this period of time was Dust Pneumonia. It was caused by excessive exposure to dust. I would build up in your lungs and inflame the alveoli. Symptoms are: High fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and coughing. People who would have Dust Pneumonia would usually die from it. Dust Pneumonia stops the cilia from moving and does not allow the lungs to clear themselves.Health/Diseases Pictures

This shows a normal alveoli and an infected alveoli by pneumonia.Rag-time MusicBefore it was sheet music for a piano, Rag-Time Music was dancing music. There are many different styles of Rag-Time: Cakewalk Characteristic marchTwo stepSlow dragCoon songRag time songFolk ragtimeClassic RagAnd MANY more(there is a LOT)!

Rag-time Pictures

One of the albums of Rag-time Music.

Based on the title of this album, this must have been one of the older forms of rag music.