The Great Plowup
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Book: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Monograph Paper: Write a 2-3 page paper about the Dust Bowl as described in the assigned Monograph by answering these important questions: 1. Explain the meaning of the phrase, “The Great Plowup”, and, the details of what that meant for the Great Plains. 2. Describe in detail the fraud perpetrated on the farmers in the Great Plains? 3. Explain the position of Jewish business owners and how they were blamed for the bad times. 4. How did modern farming equipment and machinery exacerbate the “Sodbuster” dilemma? 5. Compare the help extended to the Dust Bowl farmers by the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. 6. Answer Roosevelt’s question, “What made this land die?”
