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The Great Depression and //The Dust Bowl// //This page is going to serve as the "container" for your video. This text and the text below will be **deleted by you** and replaced with// **your words**//. I have a header where I would like you to describe your project, the topic, and reflect on the process.//

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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?

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The Dust Bowl or also known as the Dirty Thirties was a period of several dust storms causing major damage to crops and farms. The dust storms lasted from 1930 to 1936. In some areas it was until 1940. The dust storms were caused by severe droughts and loose top soil from farmers plowing their land. Most of the dust storms had names like “Black Rollers” or “Black Blizzards”. The Dust Bowl effect over 100,000,000 acres of land from Texas and Oklahoma to Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado. Millions of acres of farmland went to waste and thousands of people had to leave their homes. Most of the families moved to California or other states that were not effect by the dust storms.

In 1935, the federal government formed a Drought Relief Service (DRS) to coordinate relief activities. President Roosevelt ordered the Civilian Conservation Corps to plant a huge belt of more then 200 million trees from Canada to Abilene, Texas to break the wind, hold water in the soil and hold the soil itself in place. In 1937, the federal government began an aggressive campaign to encourage Dust Bowlers to adopt planting and plowing methods that conserved the soil.