1. Review the five accounts from speakers in the first clip and summarize their comments on the southern Plains. Speaker
Summarize the description of the Southern Plains
Caroline Boa Henderson
Charles Shaw
Robert “Boots” McCoy
Calvin Crabill
Donald Worster

2. Identify and label the 10 states that are part of the southern Plains and describe the climate there.
Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Iowa are 10 states part of the southern plains.
3. Explain how modern machinery changed the way farmers planted and produced wheat on the southern Plains.

4. Summarize the effects of Black Tuesday and the stock market crash on the American economy. What were the effects on the farmers of the southern Plains?
Effects on American Economy
Effects on Southern Plains Farmer
5. What were the two factors that made the harvest of 1932 a double disaster for southern Plains farmers?

6. Describe the effect of the drought and depressed wheat prices on farm families.
7. Document your reaction to the photos of the dust storms coming close to the towns in Texas and Oklahoma. Describe what you see and your thoughts if you had been there.
8. Describe the impact of the dust storms on the environment of the southern Plains.

9. Describe the impact of the dust storms on the economy of the southern Plains.
10. Describe the impact of the dust storms on the people’s quality of life and emotional state.
11. Briefly describe what life was like for migrant workers who traveled west to work in the crop fields of California
Living Conditions
Working Conditions
Advantages and/or Disadvantages
12. After viewing the scenes of migrants along the road and listening to Woody Guthrie’s description of them, do you feel the values displayed in the opening scene apply to them? Explain.

13.
Why do you think most Californians felt the people who migrated to escape the problems of the Depression and the Dust Bowl were all the same?