OGT Weekly Writing Describe what you

see in this picture.

What is happening

here?

What is unusual

about the family in

this picture?

What reasons can

you think of for why

they are in this

situation?

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Images of the Great

Depression

US History

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Part One

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Where Was It?

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Dust Bowl Facts Caused by overproduction

(wheat), drought, and high winds

Worst environmental disaster in US History (100,000,000 acres—size of Pennsylvania)

Tied yourself to ropes before going out into a storm; breathing was a hazard

Static electricity in storms knocked people over

Chickens roosted in mid-afternoon

Dust went to Chicago, New York, DC—even ships at sea

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A Dust Storm in Eastern Colorado

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Another Dust Storm

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A father and his two sons seek

shelter from a dust storm

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Sand covering a farm

after a dust storm

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Dust Bowl Field

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An abandoned farm in Kansas.

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Part Two

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A family trying to escape the

dust bowl

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A family in a “lean-to” tent

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Farm worker's permanent

homes.

Shack - rents for $7 a month.

Arvin - Kern County, California.

note times...why?

Worker's Alliance meeting in Arvin

- Kern County

Family Living Conditions

Shack Town Children

Louis

Camp, Sacramento, California

Household equipment of

Oklahoma family

World's largest asparagus

field, Ryer Island

Sacramento, California

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Part Three

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Breadline

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Hunger

Line

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The Great “Depression”

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Unemployment Line

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Lots of Standing Around

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“Move on…”

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Everyone Did What They Could

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Hoovervilles

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Monopoly

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