The Great Plains went through a boom period when land speculators touted the miraculous advantages of farming wheat. Government and private industry encouraged the settlement and development of the region.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
Analyze how real estate developers and other corporations convinced families, sometimes through illegal means, to move to the southern Great Plains during the 1910s and 1920s;
Understand how the increase of wheat production during World War I contributed to the evitable ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl.
Meet some of the people who lived in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and learn about the history of the region. The Great Plains stretch from Canada to Southern Texas, from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains.
Learning Objective:
Students will analyze the history of agriculture in the Great Plains.
Modern machinery had made wheat farming more efficient and profitable. The result was more land speculation, more acreage turned over to wheat farming, and a blind faith that the good times wouldn't end. But warning signs were evident.
Learning Objective:
Students will understand and analyze how the industrialization of agriculture in the Great Plains contributed to the Dust Bowl.
The stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, a day that would come to be known as "Black Tuesday." The crash punctured a speculative bubble that had been building throughout the 1920s, throwing one-and-a-half million Americans out of work. In three years, that number would triple. In response to the lower wheat prices, more wheat was planted.
Learning Objective:
Students will understand how the agricultural response to the Great Depression fueled the already dire ecological situation in the Great Plains, leading to the Dust Bowl.
The Great Plains went through a boom period when land speculators touted the miraculous advantages of farming wheat. Government and private industry encouraged the settlement and development of the region.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
Analyze how real estate developers and other corporations convinced families, sometimes through illegal means, to move to the southern Great Plains during the 1910s and 1920s;
Understand how the increase of wheat production during World War I contributed to the evitable ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl.
Meet some of the people who lived in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and learn about the history of the region. The Great Plains stretch from Canada to Southern Texas, from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains.
Learning Objective:
Students will analyze the history of agriculture in the Great Plains.
Modern machinery had made wheat farming more efficient and profitable. The result was more land speculation, more acreage turned over to wheat farming, and a blind faith that the good times wouldn't end. But warning signs were evident.
Learning Objective:
Students will understand and analyze how the industrialization of agriculture in the Great Plains contributed to the Dust Bowl.
The stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, a day that would come to be known as "Black Tuesday." The crash punctured a speculative bubble that had been building throughout the 1920s, throwing one-and-a-half million Americans out of work. In three years, that number would triple. In response to the lower wheat prices, more wheat was planted.
Learning Objective:
Students will understand how the agricultural response to the Great Depression fueled the already dire ecological situation in the Great Plains, leading to the Dust Bowl.
