The Black Blizzard
In the 1930s, drought and high winds pounded the midwest and caused one of the worst natural disasters in United States History.
Watch the PBS documentary clip and answer the following question after completing the Great Depression Notes from Day 2…
Who got the worst end of the Great Depression… was it the Farmers in the Great Plains, or the city-folk? Each dealt with extreme hardship, but which one do you believe got the worst end of the Great Depression? Use facts from the video clip, your textbook, notes, and your natural intuition to guide your answer. Please respond to the prompt in 3-5 full sentences, and cite your evidence.
Video: The Dust Bowl Episode | Uncovering the Dust Bowl | PBS
The Farmers got the worst end of the Great Depression. They lost the farm and got hit by the dust bowl. The book Miles From Nowhere, hints the farm by saying miles from nowhere. Cause farm are normally in the middle of nowhere. Movie 1:12
ReplyDeleteThe farmers were hit harder by the dust storm harder than anybody. when they go to check the cattle, the could cut their stomachs open and sand would come out.in the video (1:12 sec) there was a discussion about what happened to them during the diet storm.
ReplyDeleteThe city-dwellers seemed to get the worst of the Great Depression. Since farmers could produce much of their food, they did not have to worry about buying produce. THey would use their cattle such as cows for dairy products and chickens for eggs. In a sense, farmers still had their jobs, but it was a bit more difficult to pay off debts due to low prices. The people who had lived in the cities dealt with an outrageous number of company shutdowns and unemployment. Since they could not produce their own food, many families went hungry. Sometimes there would be soup kitchens to feed the masses. During the winter, it was especially difficult since families could not afford coal to heat their homes. With all that said, I think it can be justifiable that the people who lived within the cities got the worst end of the Great Depression.
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most farmers couldn't grow their own food because of the poor soil and storms, and the same with the animals most died. also they didn't have soup kitchens or anything they were on their own.
DeleteOne other thing to think about. Don't you think that since farmers had a surplus of food, they could last a long time with all the crops/meat they had left over?
DeleteGoing off from what Steven said. Though the soil may have been mostly dried up, they still had a big boom of food beforehand. It seems like they would be able to keep going on for a good amount of time.
DeleteBoth the farmers ad the city-folk had it pretty rough during the Great depression but I feel the farmers had it worse.The farmers had to encounter loosing their farms which wold not be producing money to provide for their family, they were also loosing many cattle during the Depression.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the farmers had it worst because they were hardest hit by the dust storm. While the people in the city had better standing buildings to deal with the storm, the farmers had shacks that couldn't keep the dust out very well. Plus with all the dust there was no food no water or anything so the farmers were starving and dying of thirst. (movie 1:28)
ReplyDeleteWhat about life in the shantytowns? Though the dust wasn't there, the violence and starvation surely caused a great deal of issues.
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DeleteI say it was the farmer. Because they had all these fields to get to and there crops to tend and they couldnt because there was the dust storms that got in the way of that. If the went out the could inhale the dust, and they could get hurt because the dust is strong or something. They couldnt get to the city to sell there crops. And even if they could nobody had the money to by there crops. So they were moneyless, and kinda far from the city, so the dust storms were worse
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the farmers got the worst of the dust storms because thats where it would all started from. they got the base of the storm. the people in the city didn't get the storm as bad as the farmers did. the city people could keep the sand out with the windows. the far,ers had shacks so it was hard to keep it all out. thats what i think.
ReplyDeleteWhat about shantytowns in the cities? And people in the cities didn't get much of the storm but they had to deal with violence, stealing and living in shacks with multiple people.
Deletecity folks had so much to help them keep the sand out of everything they had
DeleteI believe that the farmers had it worse than the city people because they lost everything that they had and there farms and the cows and animals died, they then had no way to make a living and most likely had to start fresh.
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Maria I agree with you. Farmers had it much worse than people living in the city. Their animals were suffocated by dust and had to be left behind. The farmers also had to leave their land to find somewhere a bit more safe to live.
DeleteI believe the city people had it worse though. What about all of the violence they had to live with. There may have been no dust but people had to deal with violence, stealing and on top of that living in a shack with more than one person. The people in the city also had to deal with having no resources unlike the farmers. Although there might have been dust on the farms the city wasn't any safer.
DeleteI agree with you. The farmers suffered much more than the city people because they lost absolutely everything they had. They had to completely start over because of the dust bowl. They lost their main source of food.
Deletei do agree that city people had it hard but i still believe that farmers had it worse just due to there living conditions. at least city people had access to resources and could get things they needed where farmers were just stuck and had nothing they could access.
Deletethe famers got the worst part of it to me , it was so hot and there animals kept dying they could not keep any thing growing so they could not make any money. they could not keep the sand out of there houses and had to cover there face so they would not get hurt buy the sand . the city folk had it bad but the famers were worse .
ReplyDeleteI believe farmers in the Great Plains got the worst end of the Great Depression. They had to go through being in huge dust storms that would get inside your house and prevent you from getting out.
ReplyDeleteI disagree and think that the city people had it worse. They had to deal with crime and not being able to support their families. Farmers could still produce food and had a home whether it was dirty or not. city people had no home, no food, and no money.
DeleteI believe the farmers got the worst of it. They lived on large pieces of land with few neighbors and a lot of dirt for crops, but cities had larger buildings and more people so they could have more people in one place and try to find better ways to keep the dust out, while farmers would be stuck without much help. Also, with more buildings and therefore more businesses, there was more food and living supplies for people in the cities, but farmers had whatever they got when they went to a town or small business nearby.
ReplyDeletei am going to have to say that the people living in the cities were hit harder than the farmers. although the farmers were hit with the dust bowl and a more than ten year drought that caused it. Farmers still produced for their families if their farm wan't a foreclosure. But people in the cities lost their jobs, lost their homes, had to go to soup kitchens just for food. Some actually had to dig through garbage or were begging for food. To me I feel like they both had their own different struggles. The people in the city got hit harder with lack of food and money, those are key things you need to provide for your family, food to eat and money to keep a house or a place to live.
ReplyDeleteI think the farmer did becuase they not only had to produce food for the country but also for them selves. So when the dust storm came in the not only lost money but also lost the very essentials to keep their family alive.
ReplyDeleteBoth the farmers ad the city-folk had it pretty rough during the Great depression but I feel the farmers had it worse.The farmers had to encounter loosing their farms which wold not be producing money to provide for their family, they were also loosing many cattle during the Depression.
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DeleteThe city-folk got the worst end of the Great Depression. Many people lost their jobs and, unlike farmers, they couldn't produce their own food. To eat, many people had to go to bread lines and soup kitchens. Diseases were easier to catch in the city because it's full of people and the living conditions were crowded. A lot of people got sick and died due to lack of stamina, from malnutrition, to fight of the diseases. When the city-folk couldn't pay their rent anymore, they used scraps of lumber and cardboard boxes to build shacks that they could live in. These were called shantytowns. They had no electricity and no running water. This is why I think that the city-folk had it worse than farmers.
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What could the city-folks have done to improve the living conditions?
DeleteThey couldn't really do anything to improve their living conditions. The buildings that they lived in were extremely close together and, sometimes, shared the same walls. The buildings that shared walls had a limited number of windows. People would throw their trash outside and leave it.
Deletethe city-folk and the farmers had it pretty bad but the farmers had to deal with losing their farms and so then they could not be able to produce any crops so there was no money coming in. Any farmer that had any animals also had to either find a way to take them with them when the storm got to bad to stay, or they had to make the choice to leave them or kill them for their meat. Along with plants, they had many veggies and spices that would not be able to survive to they had to find a way to start all over somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I think another point is that the land was worn out because farmers had previously grown so much extra food to supply others. Now that people can't afford their food, they're abandoned.
DeleteI think the farmers had it the worst because they had to not only protect themselves but also protect their animals which was their only food so if they happened to lose any of their animals they would have to go hungry.
ReplyDeleteBoth the farmers and the city-folks had it rough. A lot of farmers were raising their crop but didn't get pay well. The farmers could raise their own food and at least feed themselves. While the city-folks couldn't. The city-folks lost their jobs, couldn't feed their families and couldn't heat their home. A lot of people refused to get government welfare. Some people were ashamed and it was a painful experience. This is why I think the city-folks had it worst than the farmers.
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Most farmers had lost their homes completely, and were forced to relocate. I believe that the farmers had it worse, because they were forced to change their lives completely, due to the fact that they lost everything.
DeleteI think that the farmers, the country side, had a harder life because they all didn't have a lot of money compared to the cities' people. These people already did not have much money and so the Great Depression made it worst for them. The Dust Bowl caused the animals to die and it was hard to go outside. In the cities, they had poor people, but those people were able to ask richer people for food, and the areas were a lot cleaner and safer than the Dust Bowl period in the Great plains. In conclusion, the farmers in the Great Plains had it worst than the cities because of the Dust Bowl.
ReplyDeleteWell, just because the poor city-folk were able to ask for food doesn't mean they got it. If the entire country of America was going through a huge depression, where would the money to keep the cities come from? Farmers already had a lot of problems due to the "Roaring '20s," yes, but those problems were made worse during the '30s. In a way, you are correct, however your reasoning isn't as correct as you say. Go further into depth about how the Dust Bowl made it hard to go outside, or how the Dust Bowl killed the animals.
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ReplyDeleteI think the farms got the worst end of the Great Depression. They had to harvest crops during a big sandstorm hit. So the sandstorm made it difficult to produce food, and it took away money that they would have earned by selling the crops.
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What about the over population of the cities? I agree that farming in those conditions is not good, but people get crowded in those cities.
DeleteI believe that the farmers got the worst of the Great depression because they had hotter weather then usual and changes in weather can cause the crops to die and if your crops you don't have food and neither do the peple that normally buy that crop from you
ReplyDeletei think the farmers got it the worst their crops and animals had gone bad and the animals that they had they either had to sell them or use them for their meat but also the city people had it bad because they lost their jobs and they didnt have money to feed their families and alot of city people refused to get government welfare because they were ashamed and they thought it was painful
ReplyDeleteI agree with you davidkod24. Farmers got the worst because if you were out in the country and your farm and house and all your possessions got destroyed in a dust storm, you couldn't walk a few blocks down the street to a bread line like city people.
Deletei agree that they both got it bad just in different ways the farmers lost land and so did the city folk but at lest the farmers that killed their animals they had food.
DeleteI believe the farmers had a harder time in this time due to the loss of their crops, being their source of money. They also had to make harsh decisions for the animals they had. The farmers had few neighbors and were surrounded by dirt, she they cut open their animals, they would have sand inside of them. Without crops and cattle, the farmers had little to support their families with. In conclusion, i believe the farmers had it the hardest.
ReplyDeleteI think the farmers got the worse of the the great depression because they need to be outside to make the crops and at that time it was not possible. When the farmers loose their crops they loose a lot of money that they have to survive off of. Also, the animals was a big part of this because they had to figure out what to do with them, they had the choice to kill them or eat them.
ReplyDeleteFarmers because their crops and animals had gone bad and the animals that they had they either had to sell or use them for their meat but also the city people had it badly because they lost their jobs and also homes and never find where to live or work
ReplyDeleteI think the Farmers had worse. The farmers lost everything. they lost their animals. they had start all over. They had to try and work in the horrible conditions of the dirt hitting them. they had to try to provide for their families like this too. same with city people so i guess both had it equally bad.
ReplyDeletei agree that they both got it bad just in different ways the farmers lost land and so did the city folk but at lest the farmers that killed their animals they had food.
DeleteI believe Farmers got it worst because they suffered drought and immigration. They moved to California, but California didn't have the number of jobs needed for all of them. They faced foreclosure on their farms. This is why farmers got it worst.http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/dust-bowl-cause1.htm
ReplyDeleteFarmers were hit hard during the Great Depression. As a result of the Dust Bowl, farmers lost their crops and livestock. They struggled to create an income for themselves and relied on relief from the government to help them out.
ReplyDeletei dont think farmers were but both had it equal because farmers got stolen from as much
Deletethey both had it bad both had little to no food no jobs but in the city more people would steal anything and everything they could, and farmers had to walk to the city because they would get shocked when you touched the car,so in my view of it no one had ti worse
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ReplyDeleteTo me I think the people who got the worst end is the farmers in the Great plains. All of their crops died when the dust and drought came because the farmers couldn't save the crops. The farmers really didn't know how to save the crops. But also, I think that people got the worse end. That's my other theory because if the farmers didn't know how to save their crops then they would not have any food to survive.
ReplyDeletei agree because season after season individual farmers suffered from the miserably low prices they received for their products, and it made little difference what they grew or raised they considered themselves lucky to sell their products for enough to meet their costs of production.
DeleteDuring the Great Depression people were barely surviving. People were losing their jobs, their homes. There was barely enough food or water. The farmers were the one's most affected in this case because all the crops got ruined.
ReplyDeletei would say it was the farmers.. all of the crops they had died. when the dust and drought came.
ReplyDeleteCity people had it way tougher then the farmers. Farmers had the ability to grow their crops and everything, although they were hit with the dust storm pretty hard, city people had it harder. The city was really crowded so it was easier for diseases to spread. They had lost homes, money, & food. They had to dug through garbage to get food. They had lost everything.
ReplyDeleteI think that both farmers and the city people had it pretty bad. Farmers had it bad because of overproducing their crops, so no one would buy them anymore and after that because of the droughts, so they didn't even have crops to sell. On the other hand people in the city lost their jobs and had no money, which is basically the same as a drought for farmers. Both groups just saw themselves in a never ending cycle of despair during the Great Depression.
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