1. Do Now. Identify the Dust Bowl Identify Dorothea Lange
What impact did she have on public support of New Deal programs?

2. Life During the New Deal
Natural disaster ravages the Great Plains states
Minorities are often neglected by New Deal reforms

3. The Dust Bowl-a.k.a.-“dirty thirties”
Severe drought turns a 50 million acre area into wasteland
Lack of crop rotation, deep plowing (kills grass that holds moisture)
What effect would this have on the regions industry? Social/family life?
Clouds of dust could be seen hundreds of miles away
Causes mass migration to California—“Okies” form Oklahoma
Why did people leave? What effects would this have on western states?
AFL—sponsors Field workers union (Mexican and Filipino workers)

5. Photography and Film
Federally employed documentary filmmakers/photographers
Disenchanted families are pictured
Why would Roosevelt support showing America the situation in the West?
FSA—Farm Security Administration—Dorothea Lange (photographer)
Born in Hoboken, NJ (1895)
Migrant Mother (1936)

9. Ordinary Americans Relieved
People wanted jobs not handouts
“I don’t want charity…I want work—any kind of work”
What does this say about the character of most Americans?
Do you agree that working equals pride?
Would you rather have charity or a government funded job?