blog discussion dayy again.
before we get started, were talking about hoboes.
The Dustbowl
region in the midwest.
made the depression even worse.
over 100,000,000 topsoil ruined.
congressed passed a law to help farmers. they told farmers to plant trees.
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Blog discussion again..
Notes:
~The dust bowl:
Region where many dust storms happened.
The dust bowl happened because it was very dry and very dusty.
When farmers began growing crop for homeless people they had to till and plow that fields.
When they plo
Today we continued with more blog discussions starting with the Dust Bowl:
dust bowl
-region on the midwest where lots of dust storms blew dust across the country.
-there was a drought that made lots of dust and it was really windy which blew the dust around, another problem was people were plowing up the really dry land.
men
the dust bowl the great plains was hit the worstest the farmer were hit the worst
women wrer expect to find jobs out of the house suside rate wen up
Blog discussions today!
1928 presidential elections - Herbert Hoover and L. Smith. It was Hoovers first time running. Before he ran he was a stay at home nurse. Al Smith was a governer of California. Big issue was Coolidge was anti prohibition. Hoover
Today in class we did blog disscussions
blog discussion..
Farming was already in Depression in the 1920's.. many people couldnt afford to take care of their families.. and had to lose their house and farms.. due to this they had to move out and find somewhere else to be.. all becoz of over
Today was a blog dicussion day.
Notes:
I talked about the depression in rural areas from my assigned blog.
-Government would pay farmers to plany less crops because there was an over production of crops.
-and from my assigned blog.
Dust Bowl:
-in Great P
In the rural areas, the price of crops went way down because of overproduction by farmers. Many people couldn't support their families by farming anymore, and lost their houses due to forcloser. 400,000 farms were lost due to this. As a result,
Once again we continue our blog discussions:
Stock Market in 1920s:
A stock is money you give to a company to expand and grow, you then own a share of the company. In the 1920s it was very prospherous people wanted to buy more expensive items an
We went strait in to bog disscussion
Depression in rural areas
-crop prices went way down
-1917 we went to war so farmers plant lots for food for soldiers, and they kept doing that in the 20's
-farmers lost thier houses from forclosures
-400,000 farm
over purduction of crops made them go in to debt so ppl couldnt support their familes 400000 thousands fram where lost in that era they had tenet farms so they did lose there farms farmers lost there houses cuz the couldnt pay the bank for their loan
Today we continued our blog discussion. Life in the rual area was hard because the prices for crops went down. There are too many crops because we were in war and need it for the armies. Over production hurt the farmers. Many farmers couldn't afford
Continued blog discussions. Depression in the rural areas was a very hard life. In 3 yrs 400,000 farms were lost because no one was buying crops because of the great depression. One advantage that farmers had over the city people was they could grow
today we are still working on blogs
Tanner & Alex
-stocks are money that you buy to have a share in a company.
-stock market in the 1920s was very prosperious becuase ppl were buying things that were expensive. investers said that that it would eventua
We did blog discussions.
Bruns loves Mad Men.
Males get payed more than women.
Men won the bread lottery. ( waited in lines for bread)
Women too ashamed to stand in a bread line.
Children didn't go to school so they could pick cotton.
Teachers rushed th
today we did blog discussions
depression in rural areas:
it was really hard
prices for crops went down because ppl couldn't afford to buy them
there was a ton of left over crops from ww1
over production was a big problem
farmer's lost their houses
1929- 19
