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In the 1930s, overuse of land combined with years of drought combined to create massive dust storms that would literally block out the sun. Dust from these massive weather events, also known as “black blizzards,” reached as far as New York City and Washington, D.C. It also caused a mass migration of farmers, as many fled the arid plains for California, as chronicled in the John Steinbeck novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” A barren West Texas family farm affected by the drought, ca. Dust Bowl farmers of West Texas in Town, ca. One of the pioneer women of the Oklahoma Panhandle Dust Bowl, ca. Furrowing against the wind to check the drift of sand during the Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas, ca. Dust Bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand in Cimarron, Oklahoma, ca. 1936.
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" Ever since Upton Sinclair’s, “The Jungle” first came into print in 1906, it has been has been used by generations as a tool to illustrate the corruption of the beef industry in turn-of-the-20th-Century Chicago.
No doubt readers have cringed at the torturous descriptions of wailing animals and the spectacle of filthy, disease ridden disassembly lines producing every product imaginable including lard, sausage, glue, and fertilizer. Even President Theodore Roosevelt was shaken by this story and questioned whether-or-not tainted meat products were responsible for deaths in the Spanish American War. The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 were the result of The Jungle. And although, the book’s notoriety may have made Sinclair famous, the resulting healthier meat products and increase in the number of vegetarians were unintended consequences. n the book’s effectiveness as a work of propaganda may not have been completely realized. But it did more than that. Teachinghistory.org.
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If you're a history teacher and not following #sschat on Twitter, you should. This is a set of 12 lessons about what it was like for children to live in the second world war. I love this set of lessons because it builds empathy and helps teach the story of world war 2 from a child's perspective. September 11 is coming up. While it is still very hard for many of us to even talk about this day, we have a whole 11+ years of our students who have no memory of this event. EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it.
U.S.+History+Project+Rubric. Smithsonian's History Explorer. Facts Summary Timeline. Westward Expansion summary: The story of the United States has always been one of westward expansion, beginning along the East Coast and continuing, often by leaps and bounds, until it reached the Pacific—what Theodore Roosevelt described as "the great leap Westward.
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