Your job is to tell us what it was like to be a farmer during The Dust Bowl in the 1930s. To do this, you should use the four websites listed below. You are expected to use information from at least three of the four sites. As you do your research, keep the following questions in mind:
- Were there more or less farmers across the country in the
1930s than there are now? Why or why not?
- What was the lifestyle of a farmer like? What happened
in a typical day?
- How did The Dust Bowl affect farmers? How did it change their lifestyle?
- Did the life of a farmer get any easier by the end of the
decade? Why?
- Why were farmers an important part of the country?
