Dust Bowl Dbq

The 1930s in America was a time in history that goes down infamously known as The Great Depression. The Great Depression transpired from October 29, 1929 all the way to 1939, a vast ten years. At this juncture, individuals and the country as a whole were susceptible to downfall in the economic field. From this disadvantage, every other component of each citizen’s life was negatively impacted as well. One of the major events happening at the time was extreme poverty due to the stock market crash that started it all. Photograph number six perfectly illustrates poverty and lack of self-sufficiency because they are giving food to the poor and jobless that could not take care of themselves due to the sudden money conflict. This connects to image

number two and four, which illustrates labor and dangerous tasks. Many people lost their lives performing hazardous and dangerous tasks such as climbing structures that are suspended at major heights without a harness or any other form of protection. This made many individuals not want to take on jobs such as these, which led to an increase in deaths and poor people who were unable to provide for their families in any other way.

Without little to no income rolling in, children were then forced to pursue occupations of their own at ages as young as 6. They had to quit school and work in factories with no windows and open, hazardous machinery. Photograph number seven is very crucial to the knowledge of the Great Depression as well. The Dust Bowl made the land uninhabitable for the purpose of growing crops, which was the primary source of income for farmers and market people. With this sudden and unexpected drought, everyone was affected by its devastation. The entire Great Depression was a domino effect, in which nothing positive was contributed. In photograph number one, there is major segregation present. There was considered two groups back in this time. The superior race, which were the white people, and the majority which included the African Americans, Spanish, Asian groups and etc. Everyone who was not white was considered lower class and at the time did not own the right to even share the same water fountains or bathrooms. Most of the time there wasn’t even bathrooms for the majority, and everything was favored toward the

whites. In a time where everyone needed to stick together, there was the major divide of races which brought the country even farther apart. Finally, in image number 3, there is chaos in the streets, just as a pedestrian trying to walk to the store. Nothing was in order in the ten years that America underwent this major ruin. Luckily today, America has made a comeback, and we have overcome the effects of the Great Depression and have knowledge to prevent it from occurring again.