1. OGT Weekly Writing
 Describe what you
see in this picture.
What is happening
here?
 What is unusual
about the family in
this picture?
 What reasons can
you think of for why
they are in this
situation?
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2. Images of the Great
Depression
US History
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3. Part One
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4. Where Was It?
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5. Dust Bowl Facts
 Caused by overproduction
(wheat), drought, and high winds
 Worst environmental disaster in US History
(100,000,000 acres—size of Pennsylvania)
 Tied yourself to ropes before going out into a
storm; breathing was a hazard
 Static electricity in storms knocked people
over
 Chickens roosted in mid-afternoon
 Dust went to Chicago, New York, DC—even
ships at sea
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6. A Dust Storm in Eastern Colorado
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7. Another Dust Storm
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8. A father and his two sons seek
shelter from a dust storm
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9. Sand covering a farm
after a dust storm
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10. Dust Bowl Field
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11. An abandoned farm in Kansas.
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12. Part Two
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13. A family trying to escape the
dust bowl
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14. A family in a “lean-to” tent
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15. Farm worker's permanent
homes.

16. Shack - rents for $7 a month.

17. note times...why?
Arvin - Kern County, California.

18. Worker's Alliance meeting in Arvin
- Kern County

19. Family Living Conditions

20. Shack Town Children

21. Louis
Camp, Sacramento, California

22. Household equipment of
Oklahoma family

23. World's largest asparagus
field, Ryer Island
Sacramento, California

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28. Part Three
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29. Breadline
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30. Hunger
Line
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31. The Great “Depression”
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32. Unemployment Line
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33. Lots of Standing Around
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34. “Move on…”
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35. Everyone Did What They Could
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36. Hoovervilles
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37. Monopoly
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