Counteracting the Devastation of the Dust Bowl – Is that Constitutional?
Anticipatory Statements
Below is a chart in which you will read each statement within the first column then check ONE box (Agree or Disagree) in the 2nd or 3rd
column. Please be prepared to discuss why you agreed or disagreed. You will be allowed to change your answer later during class. You will
not complete the 4th column (Supporting Documentation) until you have examined additional resources.
Objective Statements
The U.S. Constitution was created to
make Americans happy.
Agree
Disagree
Supporting Documentation
PREAMBLE agree“form a more perfect Union…insure
domestic tranquility… promote the general welfare…”
Blessing of Liberty is tricky due to the fact LIBERTY =
freedom BUT freedom to do what…? Work? Raise cattle?
Hmmmm : )
The students may not have all of these and they may
disagree with these but they MUST record some quote
from the Preamble and be able to defend their
reasoning to your satisfaction.
According to theory of Supply and
Demand; if there is a big supply of what
people want you can charge a large sum
of money for that product.
CLIP 71 42 &45 disagree they had a surplus but no one
wanted to buy
The U S Constitution allows the
government to shoot healthy cows and
destroy the meat …. Even when people
are starving in America.
Clips 9 42 45 disagree and agree one lady said her mom
canned it for the govt while the man said they buried their
beef
Crops do not affect cattle prices.
Supply & Demand w/s disagree big supply but NO
DEMAND OR no money in economy = low price
Wessel disagree Supreme court US v Butler AAA
unconstitutional
Supply & Demand w/s disagree no grass means no feed
for cattle so ranchers must buy corn to feed them which will
make their cows cost them more so before they can make
money they have to sell the grain fed cattle for more $$
People caused the Dust Bowl.
Clip 16 farming practices and equipment ? one way disc
plow eliminated residue
PBS timeline agree…over-plowed& overgrazed… 35 million acres of … cultivated
land….destroyed for crop production
Trees help to prevent another Dust
Bowl.
Shelterbelt agree soil is sheltered from the wind som “20
times the height of the windbreak”