Identify the unique challenges that farmers in the Great Plains faced during the Great Depression; Describe the circumstances and significance of the Dust Bowl

Traveling from West to East at the rate of about 40 to 160 miles a year, the boll weevil progressively laid waste to the seven southeastern cotton states. From 1910 to 1930, these …

2020年8月14日 · Some farmers and farm leaders strongly objected to destroying such an important and useful crop as cotton. John A. Simpson, a prominent Oklahoma farm leader and …

With farmers facing financial disaster the government courted political humiliation by paying the farmers to destroy their young cotton plants, and slaughtering the 6,000,000 little pigs before …

2010年11月21日 · In 1935, the U.S. imported 36 million pounds of cotton, 13 million bushels of wheat, and 34 million bushels of corn. In other words, we paid farmers not to produce what we …

One method of driving up prices of a commodity is to create artificial scarcity. Simply put, if farmers produced less, the prices of their crops and livestock would increase. The AAA …

In the four months following the trough of the Great Depression in March 1933, industrial production rose 57 percent. We argue that an important channel aiding recovery came through …

2014年3月19日 · A small group of men removed from WPA to compel acceptance of farm work adopted the method of the embittered. Told by their employer to chop cotton and “leave a …

2014年3月19日 · Two million families, about eight and a half million people, are living in desperate conditions bordering on peonage in the southern cotton fields. These cotton tenants and …

1989年3月26日 · When the wind--and the Depression--swept the land, it blew the earth’s thin blanket as far as the Atlantic Ocean and laid bare the lives of half a million families. Farming …