1930s reading questions

1) Hoover didn't take the problems of the Great Depression seriously, and said that the poverty would fix itself in 60 days. He didn't believe that it was the government's issue

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3)If I had experienced Black Sunday, I would honestly be terrified. I probably wouldn't walk outside foe a while unless I had to.

4) my questions/thoughts during Black Sunday would have been:

• why is this happening?
• why is this one so much worse than the others?
• I wonder/hope everyone I know is safe.
• I hope it's all over soon

5) the drought began in the east and moved west

6)The drought was caused by improper farming techniques.

7) I somewhat agree with the quote at the end of the article, because droughts happen throughout the world all the time. I think that it may the fault of the people in the US at the time in combination with the natural environment. We are seeing the effects of global warming today, so why couldn't they have been occurring in the 1930s as well?

8) The "Dust Bowl exodus" was the largest migration in US history.

9)When migrants came from california, they came to realize that life in california would be just as hard as what they left from. They were unfamiliar with the crops and modernized ways of farming, and were paid very little. and what they were paid, they'd have to spend to rent shelter for the night, which would be extremely expensive based upon what they were paid. so the overall standard of living was extremely low.