I chose these pieces because they helped to convey to me the condition that many people were in as a result of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. These pieces showed me how people seemed to react in nearly all five themes of history. With regards to geography, I show how the land in the Great Plains area was slowly becoming primarily dust and a desert-like wasteland not at all capable of feeding the many people who relied on it at the time. With regard to government and policy within the description of the pictures and such I feel that it can be taken away that previous to the “natural disaster” that was the Dust Bowl there was not much protection for farms and farm workers, as well as there was more of a push for overproduction and always creating more without letting the land rest between the harvesting and planting of plants that sapped the land of its resources.
When it came to economy, I suppose that can as well be related to the way in which our government did not prepare for this collapse of the agricultural section of the economy in which we depended on the food we grew and sold to other countries. What also came to mind was the start of leaning toward industrialization which often drove the farms to compete and keep creating more mass of product, which then lead to the decrease in prices and many other horrible results. Finally, with society and religion, many people became increasingly religious and dependent on some sort of group and idea to keep them afloat in an extremely hard time that so many were experiencing. With society, because many families began to move to other parts of the country, primarily California, there was a sort of resentment that grew for the farmers and other migrants searching for jobs. There were hardly enough to supply the people there before with jobs, and with the lack of jobs created by the Great Depression and money to pay those workers, not many were getting what they wanted when they moved.