1. The New Deal and the West Chapter 24 Section 4 Notes 6.0

2. Objectives… Evaluate the impact of the New Deal on the West….

3. The Dust Bowl Where? Why? Who?

4. Where was the Dust Bowl?

6. Dust Storm - Beaver, Oklahoma

9. Texas Today U.S. Drought Monitor

10. What were the effects? Destroyed crops Dust Pneumonia People stranded Black Blizzards 1/5 to 1/3 applied for relief 90% applied for relief in some areas

11. Phoenix dust storms - July 2011 YouTube video http://www.azcentral.com/commphotos/azcentral/19441/1#1

12. Federal Agencies and the Dust Bowl RA ….(Resettlement Administration) WPA…. AAA … Drought Relief Service Soil Conservation Service… By 1940 Dust Bowl reduced from 50 million acres to 4 million

15. Migration Okies Many went to CA Became poorly paid agricultural workers Forced Mexicans out

22. How did U.S. water policy change? Boulder Dam/Hoover Dam Colorado River Flood prevention Irrigation Water  S. Cal. Cheap electricity

23. Boulder / Hoover Dam Vital Statistics Location: AZ & NV Built: 1931-1936 Cost: $165 million Purpose: Hydroelectric/ Flood control Employed: 8,000 workers

24. Hoover Dam Fast Facts 660 ft. Thick - 726 ft. tall 20K gals. of water per sec. run the generators Concrete equals 2 lane road - Seattle, WA, to Miami, FL

30. What were the consequences of U.S. water policy? West wanted gov’t run project to provide cheap electric power Increased FDR’s popularity Helped make California’s Imperial Valley one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world

31. A New Deal for Indians 1933-320,00 Indian people belonging to 200 tribes lived on reservations Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico and South Dakota Worst Poverty Infant mortality rate 2x of white population Alcoholism, tuberculosis, measles Bureau of Indian Affairs-appointed John Collier

32. Collier-progressive era social work and community organization Pledged to “stop wronging the Indians and to rewrite cruel and stupid laws that rob them and crush their families” Driving force behind Indian Reorganization Act Navajo rejected the IRA-protest against the reduction of their livestock Howard Gorman-Navajo political leader did not get along with Collier

33. BIA under Collier’s tenure became more sensitive to Indian cultural and religious freedom Employment rose BIA and Congress interfered with tribes- especially economically Margold Opinion-tribal governments retained all their original powers-except when specifically limited by Congress