1930's questions

1. Read about the Great Depression (Links to an external site.).  According to this article, what was wrong with President Hoover's response?  Why did people blame themselves when things went wrong, and how valid or invalid was this response?
-President Hoover underestimated the seriousness of the crisis.  Since the prevailing attitude of the 1920s was that success was earned, it followed that failure was deserved. The unemployment brought on by the Depression caused self-blame and self-doubt.  It was  valid because this forced the people to deal with it themselves and be individualistic. Because Americans are individualistic, like Hoover, did not think that the government should help. 
2. Read about Black Sunday
 (Links to an external site.). How would you have felt if you'd been there on that day? What kinds of fears, concerns, or questions would be going through your mind during, and after, the event described?

-I would have felt very scared and I would wonder when it's going to be over and what type of damage it has caused. Is this going to happen again? How can we stop it? What is causing this? 

3. Read about The Drought

 (Links to an external site.).  What areas were affected by it?  What caused it.  The author ends this article with a pithy quote.  Do you agree or disagree with this historian's perspective? Why or why not?

- The drought affected  the western third of Kansas, Southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico. . Although dry spells are unavoidable in the region, occurring roughly every 25 years, it was the combination of drought and misuse of the land that led to the incredible devastation of the Dust Bowl years. I agree with the quote because no one was doing anything to fix the issues and the fact that the issues were happening resembles the lack of care for the natural environment.They need to think about the present.

4. Read about Mass Exodus from the Plains

 (Links to an external site.).  Were does the migration of people out of the Dust Bowl rank in terms of other migrations in US History?  What made life hard for people once they arrived in California?

-The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states: 200,000  moved to California. Life was hard foe the migrants in California, they did not receive a warm welcome. It was hard because many California farms were corporate-owned and the farms  were larger and more modernized that those of the southern plains, and the crops were unfamiliar. The workers were paid by the quantity of fruit and cotton picked with earnings ranging from seventy-five cents to $1.25 a day. Out of that, they had to pay twenty-five cents a day to rent a tar-paper shack with no floor or plumbing.