Dust Bowl 2 The Dust Bowl is also known as the Dirty Thirties. The Dust Bowl was a terrible storm‚ which occurred in the 1930’s‚ it affected the mid western people. The Dust Bowl hit 150‚000-square-mile area‚ in Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and some sections of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico. It rained very little‚ there were high winds which later turned into a black blizzards. The Dust Bowl occurred since 1931-1939‚ it lasted
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His descriptions of the Dust Bowl‚ the causes and what the "bowl" looked like‚ were precise according to Alan Brinkley’s text‚ The Unfinished Nation. Steinbeck and Brinkley both wrote that the worst drought in history had struck the Great Plains and lasted for a decade in the early 1930s. And
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The Great Depression‚ when most hear those two words they think off the dust bowl and the collapse of the stack market ending a time of prosperity in the world. But for the farmers of America they had been suffering from low crop prices since the end of the First World War. Before the war the us was basically substantial farms that produced only what they needed and sold the extra for cash. During the war most of the farms in Europe couldn’t produce food. President Herbert Hoovers administration
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Children and animals died from dust pneumonia due to the dust bowl. In the southern plains‚ (Nebraska‚ Denver‚ Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ and Oklahoma). Farmers were hit by giant storms of dust. They had to cover every open space with a wet cloth so dust didn’t get in‚ not move in bed‚ and eat jack rabbit stew because that’s was what was cheap enough to eat.(background document‚ Dust bowl mini-q)Many of the farmers stayed‚ but some left. The farmers made profit during the war‚ but what it high must come
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What Caused The Dust Bowl? “A trip to water to rinse the grit from our lips.And then back to back to bed with washcloths over our noses. We try to lie still‚ because every turn stirs the dust on the blanket. After a while‚ if we are good sleepers‚ we forget.”(Doc. A) It was the 1930s‚ farms are dying‚ people are leaving‚ and you are left with a choice do you stay or do you leave? The government is offering 320 free acres of land to anyone who can survive three years. Three years of what though
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s‚ forced many families to move to different parts of the country‚ devastated the livelihoods of farmers; the relief was The New Deal. "Dust Bowl" was a term born in the hard times from the people who lived in the drought-stricken region during the great depression. The "Dust Bowl Days" also known as the "Dirty Thirties" took their toll on the people of this region of the country with the many extremes of weather: blizzards‚ tornadoes‚ floods‚ droughts‚ and dirt storms
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Dust during the Depression As people ambled on during the Great Depression‚ in the Great Plains‚ havoc occurred when hundreds of tons of dust rose up and blew through the air. Today‚ we know this tragic event as the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl affected Central America because many people were forced to relocate due to the harsh conditions. To start‚ the Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms that took place in the 1930’s. The storm lasted for about eight years and in that period of time‚ the storm
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a story that where the Dust Bowl affected Atticus because he had to leave his farming job from the crops that were dried out. With no crops to work out on Atticus had to provide for his family‚ and he had to be able to feed his family. The Dust Bowl was a big drought that made Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and in some parts of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico. This took place in 1934 right in the middle of the Great Depression. The people who were affected were people were the people
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The 1930’s were a decade of great change politically‚ economically‚ and socially. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl wore raw the nerves of the people‚ and our true strength was shown. From it arose John Steinbeck‚ a storyteller of the Okies and their hardships. His books‚ especially The Grapes of Wrath‚ are reflections of what really went on in the 1930’s. John Steinbeck did not write about what he had previously read‚ he instead wrote what he experienced through his travels with the migrant
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“Scorched earth. Abandoned farms. Skies black with dust. Houses buried under great dunes of earth. Decades after the drought and depression of the 1930s ended‚ images of the Dust Bowl are still familiar to millions of people worldwide” (Wesson.) That is what a normal day during the 1930’s was like. Back then people farmed to get their profit‚ especially in the southern plains of the U.S. People’s lives revolved around farming. If they didn’t get their crops planted on time‚ there wouldn’t be food
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