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code  code The Great Depression and //The Dust Bowl//

The dust bowl in the United States was not one day or a couple of days, it was ten long hard years of nothing but dust and debris flying. All the farmers were out of work and food was kind of scarce. The Dust Bowl had a lot of effects on everyone in that time period, especially the farmers. Mostly the farmers because the high winds blew all the good, rich, nutrient healthy soil away. The farmers were plowing the fields to much during droughts and dry spells. The soil got really loose and dry. During big wind storms such as the ones that was responsible for the great depression, swept up the loose soil and carried it away They could also not plant because there was hardly any rain at all, meaning that all the ponds and water reservoirs were bone dry. When the reservoirs are dry then the farmers can’t pump water from them to keep the crops watered. People that used wells (mostly everyone at the time) used the water up and no rain was able to seep down into the aquifers so the well water was going away as well. The farmers that had live stock and other farm animals didn’t have much water either, this made the food market go down as well. When the food market is down this would make people really hungry and meat having a lot of protein in it, people weren’t getting the amount that they should have got. So people back then were not very big. The solution for this could have been changing the farming practices. The government gave some farmers jobs somewhere so that the farmers could still bring home money to support a family. Some farmers just up and left their farms, because they weren’t making any money, they couldn’t take money out of their savings because the banks were all closed. In the Roosevelt era there was a soil conservation service that was created. This district was crucial to the farming industries after the dust bowl. With farmers getting different jobs they could bring home extra money that wasn’t being made on the farm. This money was mostly used for housing costs, utilities and if they had any animals then they could have used the money on them as well. The soil conservation service also helped a ton with the understanding of soil. Back then all they did was plow the field, plant it, and harvest it. After that they just left it set and all the soil did was dry up. Which made it vulnerable to wind and being swept away. =My Video=

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=The Great Depression and the New Deal= Write a few paragraphs about the Great Depression. This can be some of what is in your video, but also include an answer to the following questions:
 * What opposition was there to Roosevelt's New Deal? What role did the Supreme Court play in balancing what America needed and what was Constitutionally allowed (see "Roosevelt and the New Deal" page 780)?
 * Re-read Legacy of the New Deal" pages 792-93. What perspectives are there on the effectiveness of the New Deal? How well did it work?

=Reflection= Describe in a paragraph or so the process you took to create your video. What were some challenges you faced and how did you overcome them? Be reflective on what you learned.