https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5 Made by selling children en-us 2018-02-14 01:42:03 UTC 2023-05-08 01:19:10 UTC hello@padlet.com jkatz2019 https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231348521 As soon as the first explorers and pioneers arrived in America, the desire to explore the rest of the country ignited. ]]> 2018-02-14 01:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231348521 jkatz2019 https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231349079 Americans quickly used the land that they settled along the east coast. Many farming techniques were very wasteful, leading to infertility in the land. Combined with the wasteful use of land, farmers desired to increase the size of their farms (bigger farms + more crops = more money). They could not exactly look east for more land, so they looked west discovering the vast Great Plains. Combined with both flat, fertile lands, the Great Plains were also inhabited by vast herds of bison which provided a variety of raw materials.]]> 2018-02-14 01:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231349079 jkatz2019 https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231349631 People changed, farming techniques did not. After only a few decades, the farmers of the Great Plains had exhausted the soil leaving it largely infertile. The top soil was extremely dry and loosely packed. The farming techniques used by farmers in the previous generations were meant for a much more moist climate that would keep the soil from drying out. This led to the creation of the Dust Bowl.]]> 2018-02-14 02:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231349631 jkatz2019 https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231349979 Around the 1930s, the Dust Bowl was created. It was a period of time that destroyed both American agriculture and part of the economy. Want to know what made this timing even better? The Great Depression also just happened to start at the same time. Farming was no longer a viable occupation. Farmers could not grow crops, thus they could not pay the money that they owed to landlords. To make ends meet, they sold their houses and farms and were forced to move back to urban areas.]]> 2018-02-14 02:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231349979 jkatz2019 https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231350614 Before the 1930s, nearly 60% of the United States' population lived in rural areas whirl only 40% lived in urban areas. These numbers were unstable throughout the entirety of the Great Depression. People would move from city-to-city and from state-to-state just looking for jobs. Rumors carried people to the farthest reaches of the country just so they could make a few dollars to support their families. Some rumors became so popular that local officials were sometimes forced to restrict immigration to their towns because overpopulation and job crisis do not exactly make the best couple. Since jobs were scarce among Americans, and since they had to keep the well-being of Americans in mind, government officials largely restricted immigration (especially from Asia). Many whites fought with Asians for jobs while many Mexican immigrants traveled back to Mexico.]]> 2018-02-14 02:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatz2019/2j1qngktl0b5/wish/231350614