Arkansas Between the Wars
By: Emily Corbin
Oil & Boom Towns
> El Dorado
> People rushed to area for 1. steady work 2. hoping to strike it rich
> After the end of the decade, the area's boom had died
Flood of 1927
> Flooding of Mississippi River
> affected the states of Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana's levees, property, animals, and people's lives
> Caused by tributaries like the Arkansas and Red rivers filling up quick and feeding into Mississippi river while Mississippi River was already flooding.
The New Deal
> Designed to put unemployed men back to work in jobs such as construction workers, post office workers, hospital jobs, teacher jobs.
> Made by Roosevelt
> also provided jobs for out-of-work artists
People- Political Voices & Outlaws
> Arkansas's U.S. Senator Thad Caraway died unexpectedly, his wife Hattie took his place.
> First women elected to serve a full term as a united states senator
>Supported Roosevelt's New Deal programs