Dust Bowl Drought

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 1930s in America were not prosperous years for the nation. The time saw a drought that could be compared to biblical proportions. News people were saying conditions were awful. According to source #1, the drought, the drought covered close to 100 million acres. It toke A out of the plans.

The Dust Bowl was a hard time during the great depression. The Dust Bowl negatively affected people in a personal way. The dust was hard to keep away. People fled and left everything. The drought made things worst and the environment was horrible to live in.

As these factors in the economy began to rise, the farmers wanted to plant and harvest more food to make more money. As they did this they did not let the soil properly reproduce its nutrients because there was not enough rain which caused the soil to be loose, topsoil. As the soil became worse the farmers did not realized it right away. When they did notice they knew they were in desperate need of a rain.

The Committee laid a fault to the climate and asserted that the farmer had no control of climate changes. Document 3 shows what the Great Plains drought area committee asked to President Roosevelt on August 27, 1936. They explained how they suffered from Dust Bowl and what they want from the Federal government. They wanted the federal government provide leadership and guidance to a substantial extent in the construction or financing of the needed public works. The Dust Bowl is directly linked to the Depression, because both were caused at the same period so as part of “New Deal” programs, President Franklin D. Roosevelt started new programs to conserve soil and a restoration of ecological balance of affected area.

The Dust Bowl delivered a crazy drought to the fields of the Great Plains and crushed the economy during the Great Depression. Massive dust clouds destroyed just about everything from crops, farms, and the lives and jobs of thousands of farmers. This resulted in even more economic despair during the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl happened in the 1930s in the Great Plains due to farmer’s poor cultivation techniques. Although the farmers cultivation options didn 't work, the federal government really helped them out with after five years went by.

The Dust Bowl was both natural and human disaster, which some of it provoked by human activities. In the 1920’s the weather was favorable with plentiful of rain and technology such as tractors. This helped Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado’s great plains. Yet, farmers gave little consideration of the prairie grass that secured the topsoil. The topsoil was a great source for crops to grow.

Dust Bowl, The Southern Plains in the 30’s written by Donald Worster and published in 1979, is an informative text on the Great Plains during the Great Depression. Donald Worster is a credible author because he not only earned a Ph.D. from Yale in environmental history, but he also had previously written a book on the environment and the economy. This book was written well and Worster did a good job of revealing how people and how they live have effected the areas environment. He spoke of places including, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and many more.

Repercussions of the New Deal during the Great Depression Government programs always affect our country; whether or not we seek all aspects of the program determines the outcome of the situation. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) became president March 4th, 1933, and he served as president for two terms. FDR was a fighter, he fought a battle with polio, and he also fought to get the United States out of a Great Depression. He came up with the New Deal, a series of government programs intended to help. The Great Depression started when the stock market crashed October 29th, 1929, and the economy fell tremendously, and unemployment rose.

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.

A drought, also known as the Dust Bowl, affected living conditions on the plains. Some people got caught in the dust storms, and were killed because they couldn’t breathe from all of the dust. People who didn’t have a job was having a hard time getting food to eat. People who couldn’t eat were more likely to get an illness because their body wouldn’t be strong enough to fight it off. Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted quickly to stabilize the economy and try and get everyone jobs and help the people who are starving and sick.

The Dust Bowl of the 1930 's caused devastation for the mid-west at the time. It went on in Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas; however, slimmer areas were actually affected by the Dust Bowl like the Oklahoma panhandle, the Texas panhandle, the Northeast of New Mexico, the Southeast of Colorado, and the western third of Kansas. The drought that caused the Dust Bowl affected about 27 states and covered about 75% of the country. It was in April of 1934 that Black Sunday, the worst storm of the Dust Bowl, occurred. Shortly after President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the Conservation Act.

Donald Worster is an environmental historian and his book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s helped to define the environmental history movement as it was the first environmental history book published. He breaks the stereotype of how the Dust Bowl was viewed by writing it from an environmental standpoint instead of writing a social history by focusing solely on the people and their experiences. How it helped to define the environmental history movement is that it opened up this avenue for others to write about environmental issues. He is also an anti-capitalist and this book combines his interest in the environment with the effect that capitalism has on the environment.

In the 1930s, a drought struck the Great Plains, leaving the United States in an economic and agricultural depression. An article over the Great Depression states that, “Many crops were damaged by deficient rainfall, high temperatures, and high winds, as well as insect infestations and dust storms that accompanied these

The Dust Bowl is a classic tale of humans pushing too hard against nature and nature pushing back (The Dust Bowl). The narrator of the film said it was the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history (The Dust Bowl). The groups of people that choose to live in this region choose to ignore the history of the land that included droughts and severe winters. Ignoring the severe winters of the 1880’s caused the “Beef Bonanza” to close and a severe drought in the 1890’s that pushed farmers off the land. Farmers ignored the ecosystem by ridding the land of the vegetation that had evolved.