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What did the U.S. government do about the Dust Bowl?

In his first 100 days in office, Roosevelt addressed soil conservation, the key to turning around the Dust Bowl conditions, by creating the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Soil Erosion Service. The establishment of the Soil Erosion Service was the first major federal commitment to the preservation of privately owned natural resources. In 1935, Roosevelt started the Prairie States Forestry Project to plant nearly 220 million trees, a project undertaken by the U.S. Forestry Service, the CCC, the new Works Progress Administration (WPA) and local farmers. The seven-year project created o..

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Who was Madame Roland?

Madame Roland was married to Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere. He was a philosopher and writer who was involved in local government. She began to act as a secretary for her husband, later taking on the role of co-author and even ghost writer, penning articles about politics and government for the newspaper Patriote Francaise.\nThe couple moved to Paris where Madame Roland owned a popular salon that hosted some of the most influential thinkers of the time, including the revolutionaries called Girondins. Her husband was eventually appointed Minister of the Interior under King Lous XVI. He was di..

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What is a brief summary of the Cold War?

The Cold War began in the wake of World War II. As the Allies attacked Germany from both sides, the Soviet Union took considerable amounts of territory, including much of Germany itself. After the war, the Soviets installed governments in these captured countries, absorbing them into itself or forging strong diplomatic ties in the Warsaw Pact. The Allies liberated the countries on the Western front, and several of these countries joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to stand against the Soviets.\nMany of the armed conflicts from the 1950s to the 1980s occurred against the backdrop of ..

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In what type of dwellings did the Pomo Indians live?

The Pomo lived in small hunter-gatherer migratory groups, or bands, rather than belonging to a large politically linked and unified tribe. A Pomo chief governed each band. The common bonds of a Pomo band were lineage, geography and marriage. Although nomadic, the bands tended to stay at one location for an extended length of time before moving on.At the peak of their population at the end of the 1700s, the Pomo are believed to have numbered about 8,000. As of 2015, the population is estimated to be about 4,500.

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How did mercantilism effect the colonies?

According to the Library of Economics and Liberty, mercantilism grew out of the popular belief that there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and that the primary way to increase a nation's wealth was to conquer other lands. In order to sustain its wealth base, Britain felt it was important to keep the goods and materials from the colonies to themselves. Thus, the colonists were not able to trade these materials to other countries and obtain any wealth for themselves. All of the profits went to Britain, and the colonists remained in relative poverty. If the colonists wished to trade..

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When was the compass invented?

The first magnetic compass appeared in Europe by the early 14th century, but it is unclear if it was introduced to Europe from China or invented independently. Before the introduction of the magnetic compass, most Europeans relied on celestial navigation and astronomy, or in the case of the Vikings, a crystal called the sunstone.

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How much did the first light bulb cost?

Edison created the Edison Electric Light Company in 1880 to market his new invention. By 1910, longer-lasting tungsten filaments made light bulbs cheaper. Compact fluorescent lights (CFL) saw similar declines in price from the 1980s to 2013. The first models in the mid-1980s each cost between $25 to $35 before going down in price to $1.74 apiece in 2013.

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What are some facts for kids about the Titanic?

Six forward compartments filled with water on the Titanic after hitting the iceberg. The ship would not have sunk if it had only been four forward compartments. The ship had four funnels, but only three of them were functional. Designers added the fourth funnel to give the ship a more symmetrical look. The 30 ship engineers kept working until the ship sank to save others, and none survived.\nIt cost more to make the 1997 movie, "Titanic," than it did to build the actual ship. After the sinking, it took 73 years to find the wreck on the ocean floor. The first movie detailing the sinking of Tita..

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What were some important events in 20th-century America?

Another 20th-century significant event is the bombing of the Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In World War II, the United States bombed both of these countries killing thousands of people in an attempt to bring the war to a close. Although Germany surrendered in 1944, the Japanese had refused to surrender and continued to fight. It was President Truman who decided that it would be better to use large force to hopefully end the war in 1945 instead of losing an expected one million American soldiers in a ground fight. Secretary of War Henry Stimson, several of the Manhattan Project scien..

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What kinds of food did people eat in the New England colonies?

Though the New England colonies are closely associated with one of the most famous traditional American meals, Thanksgiving, early colonists in this area weren't chowing down on giant roast turkeys with wine, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes. However, apple pie was not an uncommon dish, though the original Pilgrims likely didn't have ingredients to make this dish at the time of the first Thanksgiving. Alcohol was rarely consumed in this part of the colonies, though even children may have consumed a lot of it at funerals. New England's soil is rather rocky, so farming didn&apo..

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