In around 1930 Oklahoma,Texas,Kansas,New Mexico and Colorado were mostly dry grasslands. These states got hit by these black dust and dirt storms many times. People used wet towels to cover cracks in the houses like under doors and windows so the dust/dirt wouldn’t go into the houses.
Farmers could only grow a few things like wheat and corn and they had cattle. They were already in a stock market crash and was in the middle of The Great Depression. It got so dry there wern’t able to grow anything ,so farmers were going through financial problems.Big gust of winds were killing cattle and destroying car engines, it slowly started killing people. While all of this happened people were moving from state to state trying to find jobs, but so were the people who already lived there. People who moved mostly ‘camped out’ because they couldn’t afford to buy a house, also they had to do what they could so their kids would go starving.
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mobs of people who already lived there went to where they camped out with weapons like clubs and ax handles, and tried scaring them off because they were over crowding public places like schools. After The Great Depression ended things began to get better, farmer started being able to grow things again and everyone started making money again, and in a few years rain began to come again.Even though it all got better it was considered the worst Dust Bowl of the
In the 1930s, a large dust storm destroyed the southern plains in United States and the prairies of Canada. This storm by the name of the Dust Bowl lasted 8 years and also occurred during the time of the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl shook the agriculture and the economy. People could no longer breathe easily, everybody had to wear a mask. Walking, talking and eating had become very difficult.
The drought killed the grass which made the soil lack the roots as an anchor, “So the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled it into dense dust clouds, called black blizzards”(“Dust Bowl”). This dust wasn't just destructive it was also deadly. The dust could kill if people inhaled enough of it. The dust was more deadly to infants and elderly people.
The drought hit there was nothing to hold the moisture or the soil to the ground causing the dirt storms, The Dust
The Dust Bowl made many people migrate to places like California, where the air was fresher and the food was more plentiful. They all believed that maybe one day it would be over, and that kept them going even when they maybe shouldn’t have. Kids and adults developed Dust Pneumonia, some suffocated, and others even committed suicide. Crops were almost gone, and wheat was the only reliable source of food. Families hung wet sheets from their windows in hopes of catching the dirt before it came into their houses, and people swept and wiped dust off from almost
The Dust Bowl was a terrible era for America and took an extended time for recovery. It was a series of dust storms happening from 1932 to 1938 (Jones 1). Also known as the dirty thirties, the Dust Bowl was not the best time to be a farmer considering fifty million acres of farm land was destroyed ("Dust Bowl" 1). "The cause of the Dust Bowl was a mixture of natural drought and poor farming practices" (Trimarchi 1). Even though the Dust Bowl was an important part of American history, it caused much devastation and damage to the environment, people, and the economy.
Luckily Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to shine some light with a new deal. The Dust Bowl was what they called the Great Depression in the drought stricken areas. The condition of the areas around Oklahoma and Texas made living dangerous and futile. “When drought struck
The Dust Bowl was an agricultural devastation that deeply affected the nation in the 1930s. In the beginning of 1932, a drought struck the Midwestern and Southern Plains. This caused the soil in over-plowed and over-grazed lands to dry to dust and blow away. During this time, a lot of laws and projects were taken into consideration to provide relief and promote rehabilitation. The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act was approved on April 8th, 1935 for drought relief.
In the 1930s there was an extremely long period of drought that happened in the Southern Plains of the United States. Not only did the area suffer severe dust storms that made crops fail throughout the entire region, but it caused the lives of many livestock and people to be taken away. This decade of dryness was known as the Dust Bowl. Although the Dust Bowl only lasted about 10 years, the economic impacts it had lasted for much longer. Some scientists believe it was the worst drought in North America in 300 years.
The Dust Bowl started during 1930’s and it lasted at least a decade. In 1934 the Dust Bowl was announced the worsted drought of the of the 1930’s. The main area that was affected was the southern plains. The northern plains were still affected not as badly as the south.
The Dust Bowl was an extreme drought that occurred throughout the Great Plains in the 1930s. This drought brought dust storms along with high winds. Crops and plants stopped growing and water was limited. Along with this, most farms were abandoned. It was absolutely difficult for almost anyone people to live comfortably.
The Dust Bowl was a severe environmental and economic disaster that occurred during the Great Depression era in the 1930s, affecting several states in the Great Plains region of the United States. The Dust Bowl was characterized by severe dust storms and droughts that led to the loss of crops and the displacement of thousands of people. The Dust Bowl was caused by a combination of natural and human factors. The Great Plains region is naturally dry, and droughts had occurred in the past.
The Dust Bowl Can you imagine waking up in the morning and its pitch black outside? Would you be able to stand the dirt and the little rocks hitting your face everyday? Could you stand to inhale the dirt while you took a breath or eating dirt that falls into your food? In the 1930’s in the Southern Plains, these people went through a horrible experience for nearly a decade.
The dust bowl was considered the “Worst hard time” in american history. The Dust Bowl was a big cloud of dust that took place during the 1930’s in the middle of the Great Depression. The dust bowl was located in the southern great plains as it affected states like Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. The three main causes of the Dust Bowl were drought (Doc E), amount of land being harvest (Doc D), and the death shortgrass prairie (Doc C).
It caused many people to get sick with dust pneumonia which was caused when people and the dust got into their lungs. 500 people died of dust pneumonia; there was no cure but people attempted to treat themselves with vaseline, lard, kerosene, turpentine, and skunk oil. It got so bad that they had to close schools and if you were outside too long you could suffocate or get lost in the dust storms(Morgan, Ethan, and Cole).Scholars at the University of Illinois agree with the idea that the Dust Bowl occurred to a combination of human and ecological factors, meaning that it might not of have been 100 percent preventable, but its effects could have been less severe with better farming practices. To prevent another Dust Bowl they use widespread irrigation use, which allows many farmers to buffer the effects of drought more than they would’ve been able to do in the 1930s.
The two things that contributed to the start of the dust bowl are, over-farming and drought. The dust bowl was a terrible dust storm that devastated lives of thousands in the Southern Great Plains. The dust bowl occurred in the 1930’s. People called this time the blackest year.