homework about the 1930's

For homework we were told to copy a set of links snd questions on our log and answer them. 

Read about the Great Depression.  According to this article, what was wrong with President Hoover's response?  Why did people blame themselves when things went wrong, and how valid or invalid was this response?

he minimized the issues at hand
most Americans believed he could have done something 
Hoover believed it was not the government's role 
they believed they were failing those around them
the feelings seemed justified for the time period 

Read about Black Sunday. How would you have felt if you'd been there on that day? What kinds of fears, concerns, or questions would be going through your mind during, and after, the event described?

terrified

scared to death 

fearful 

will I survive? 

is my family okay? 

how can a day so beautiful end so bad? 

Read about The Drought.  What areas were affected by it?  What caused it.  The author ends this article with a pithy quote.  Do you agree or disagree with this historian's perspective? Why or why not?

Great Plains 

the western third of Kansas, southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma panhandle, the northern two thirds of the Texas panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico
no rain 
dust storms 
I do and I don't 
they are almost trying to make it too literal however once I looked at it that way it made sense 

Read about Mass Exodus from the Plains.  Where does the migration of people out of the Dust Bowl rank in terms of other migrations in US History?  What made life hard for people once they arrived in California?

1/4 of the total population moved
largest migration in American history
there wasn't a warm welcome like expected
everyone claimed there was nothing there for the migrants
farms and land were corporate owned
just as many challenges as back home