Oklahoma
·
1931
o Sever drought hits the Midwestern and
southern plains. Dust from the land began to create storms.
·
1932
o The amount of storms starts to increase,
14 storms were reported.
·
1933
o President Roosevelt comes up with the
Banking Act of 1933, which stabilized the baking industry and restores people’s
faith in the banking system by putting the federal government behind it.
o The Emergency Farm act gives $200 Million
for refinancing mortgages. It helped farmers who are facing foreclosure. The
Farm Credit Act of 1933 established a local bank and sets up local credit
associations.
o In California's San Joaqin Valley, where many farmers from the
plains have gone to seek farm work, the largest agricultural strike in
America's history begins. More than 18,000 cotton workers with the
Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union went on strike for 24
days. During the strike, two men and one woman were killed and a hundred
others were injured. In one settlement, the union was recognized by growers,
and workers were given a 25 percent raise.
·
1934
o The dust storms started to spread out from Oklahoma and covered
more than 75% of the country, and severely affected 27 states.
o The Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act is approved. This
act restricted the ability of the banks to dispossess farmers in times of
distress.
o The "Yearbook of Agriculture" for the year 1934
announces that 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land has essentially
been destroyed for crop production. 100 million acres now in crops have lost
all or most of their topsoil. 125 million acres of land now in crops are
rapidly losing topsoil.
·
1935
o The government bought cattle from farmers, so the farmers would
avoid bankruptcy.
o Roosevelt approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act. This act provides $525 million for drought relief and authorizes
creation of the Works Progress Administration, which will employ 8.5 million
people.
o April 14th, Black Sunday,
Worst blizzard.
·
1936
o Los Angele Police Chief James E. Davis
sends 125 policemen to patrol the borders of Arizona and Oregon to keep
“undesirables out.”
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The
American Civil Liberties Union sues the city.
·
1937
o FDR's Shelterbelt Project begins this year. It calls for
the large-scale planting of trees across the Great Plains, stretching in a
100-mile wide zone from Canada to northern Texas. FDR believes this his
project will help protect the land from erosion.
·
1938
o There is extensive work re-plowing the land into furrows.
Trees are planted in shelterbelts and other conservation methods result in a 65
percent reduction in the amount of soil that is blown from the land.
However, the drought still continues.
·
1939
o In the fall, the rain comes and brings an end to the drought
that has engulfed the plains for so long. During the next few years, with
the coming of World War II, the country is pulled out of the Depression and the
plains are once again golden with wheat.
California
·
1930
o
Historians have
differed over how to explain the influence of New Deal social policies at the
local, state and national levels. Some have argued that Roosevelt's New Deal
programs, by expanding the role of government, created opportunities for
political entrepreneurs to use federal programs to build a base of support for
themselves and the Democratic Party in their communities. The lives of Florence
Wyckoff and Helen Hosmer indicate that a more complex and organic process
occurred in San Francisco. Both women came of age in the early-1930s and were
profoundly influenced by the human suffering and injustice they witnessed
during the Depression.
·
1933
o
Long Beach
Earthquake.
o
Alcatraz made a
prison.
·
1934
o
San Francisco's
maritme strike, which began May 9, 1934, tumbled out of control when the
Industrial Association, made up of employers and business interests who wished
to break the strike, and the power of San Francisco unions, began to move goods
from the piers to warehouses. The first running battles between unionists and
police began Tuesday, July 3, 1934. There was a lull during the July 4 holiday
when no freight was moved, but disturbances picked up again Thursday, July 5,
1934 - known as "Bloody Thursday." This is the San Francisco News'
coverage of the first day of the rioting -- July 3, 1934. --Bloody
Thursday."
o
About to begin the
sixth year of the depression.
·
1935
o
The San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened on November 12, 1936.
·
1937
o
The Golden Gate
Bridge was completed and opened to pedestrian traffic on May 27, 1937. The
following day it was opened to vehicular traffic.
·
1928
o - Completion of Parker Dam
and the creation of Lake Havasu.
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