What caused the floods?
a) Heavy rains b) Snow melting in Canada c) Heavy snow in 1926 d) A and B e) A and C
How many acres of croplands in
AR flooded?
a) 200+ b) 200,000+ c) 2,000,000+
Which state was most affected?
a) Arkansas b) Mississippi c) Louisiana d) Illinois
Which of these was not a flood result?
a) More than 100 people died b) 50,000 livestock died c) Sickness spread through mosquitos and unsanitary conditions d) People lost faith in the government due to delay in resources e) Sharecropping grew in a positive light

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/floodclips/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGy4DgeaZNo&list=PLFpHQqW
AIeCEKb9QqVRm2cpxhily7rYkl

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/f lood/
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Narrator
Billy Payne, Resident
Sarah Percy, Resident
Mildred Commodore, Resident
John Barry, Historian
John Tigrett, Resident
Pete Daniel, Historian
Maurice Sisson, Resident
Margaret Washington, Historian
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Biographer
Tony Dunbar, Author
Irene LeLouis, Resident
David Cober, Resident
Josephine Thomas, Resident

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/08/14/history_of_1927_flo od_in_mississippi_photos_taken_along_the_railroad.html
Pick an image and write about it – fiction or nonfiction.
What do you think was going on in the picture? How did the people feel?

http://wwwtc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/pdf/2307_flood.pdf
"1927 flood Caernarvon levee dynamite St. Bernard Parish".