Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was the worst man-made ecological catastrophe during a ten year period of a rainless (during1931-1941) drought and large dust storms caused by plowing, farmers used to grow mostly wheat. The Dust Bowl was result of the worst drought in U.S. history. One hundred million acres of the Southern Plains were turning into a wasteland of the Dust Bowl. Large sections of five states were affected Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. The Dust Bowl was mainly caused by over plowing and a perfect example of “people pushing too hard against nature, and nature pushing back”(Ib’d Dust Bowl,A Film by Ken Burns DVD).Also they needed to produce more wheat to feed American troops during the war and over 200 million acres were plowed up, which caused the land to fall apart(Ib’d Dust Bowl).Also the stock market crash in 1929 caused The Great Depression which caused wheat prices to go way down from $3.00 dollars a bushel of wheat to 10 cents a bushel,(Ib’d Surviving the Dust Bowl,2007).
The Black Plague Ring around the Rosies pocketful of posies, ashes, ashes we all fall down. These are the words to the famous nursery rhyme about the Black Plague. Many people perished and many more people mourned for those unlucky enough to die. For about thirty years the Black Plague reined the earth leaving behind a trail of despair for the survivors to cope with. Firstly there are many ways the Plague was said to have begun and how to cure it.
What Effects Did the Grasshopper Plague Have on the Lives of the People? Investigation Plan: Introduction Surviving the Great Depression was a challenge. Food was scarce and jobs were even scarcer. Out in the Midwest, the effects of the Great Depression were even more devastating, since the Dust Bowl was a major aspect of the depression. The brutal dust storms brought forth tons of dust, but along with the deadly dust, thousands of grasshoppers were brought in too.
About 42 percent of the amount of Agent Orange that we used was devoted to crop destruction; the products of hours of hard work were demolished within seconds. Agent Orange caused many people to starve to death. It has been reported, by the New York Times, that the herbicide destroyed 75 percent of the rice crops. Because people’s homes and crops were being destroyed, they were left homeless and hungry on the
When sailors came to the Americas, they introduced diseases such as; small pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, influenza, chicken pox, and typhus. Small pox, a disease originated from livestock, had the most devastating effect on the Native American population. It is estimated that small and the other diseases wiped out about 90 percent of the population. Although disease was exchanged to Eurasia and Africa as well, it did not have as much as a disastrous effect as disease in the Americas. Because the disease wiped out so much of the population, the Columbian exchange inadvertently changed many economic aspects of the Americas.
Clara Nielsen US History 3.11.2015 Civil Concentration Corps Before the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) were started our country was in a great depression. People had almost no money and couldn’t afford some of the necessities of life. All around the world there was fires, smoke, floods, drought, erosion, and to top it off the dust bowl. It was very difficult to find good soil. The storms and floods had taken all the good soil in the 1930s.
This was a time when most of the people in the country were starving and fell victim to famines. People were forced to harvest their crops, and turn them over to the government to feed the soldiers. Life was hard. Some six million died. Children witnessed disfigured corpses in the streets and heard terrible tales of people consuming, buying, and selling human flesh on the street.
No medical knowledge existed in Medieval England to cope with the disease. After 1350, it was to strike England another six times by the end of the century. Understandably, peasants were terrified at the news that the Black Death might be approaching their village or town. The Black Death is the name given to a disease called the bubonic plague which was rampant during the Fourteenth Century. In fact, the bubonic plague affected England more than once in that century but its impact on English society from 1348 to 1350 was terrible.
In many ways, it was nothing more than a metamorphosis of slavery. For example, David E. Conrad stated “Tens of thousands of farmers fell down the tenancy ladder than moving up it Some farmers lost their farms or their status as cash or share tenants because of crop failures, low cotton prices, laziness, ill health, poor management, exhaustion of the soil, excessive interest rates, or inability to compete with tenant labor. Many tricks of nature (drought, flood, insects, frost, hail, high winds, and plant diseases) could ruin a crop.” (Conrad 12) This was more economically logical for the landowners because they were basically supporting no wage labor. Whatever the sharecropper made they ended up giving back to the landowner in order to rent the equipment needed to make enough money to pay the land owner back. This was far crueler than slavery because in slavery the slaves at least had the comfort of knowing that there was going to be
Discrimination of Irish Immigrants in America Ethics 125- Cultural Diversity June 12, 2011 The Irish American population did in fact migrate to the United States in 1847 due to the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, which was a main stable of food to the Irish. Roughly 37,000 Irish immigrated to the United States by ship to face cultural and religious prejudice ( Gavin, 2000 ). Many of the Irish immigrants relocated to the East Coast of the United States, mainly in New York, and Massachusetts. At the time the Irish immigrants came to the United States, the cities were predominantly of Anglo-Saxon descendants, and they were unhappy with the flood of Irish Catholics that came to the United States ( Gavin, 2000). The Irish immigrants