Olisae Udemadu May 16‚ 2013 Core 2 The early 1900’s were a time of turmoil for farmers in the United States‚ especially in the Great Plains region. After the end of World War I‚ overproduction by farmers resulted in low prices for crops. When farmers first came to the Midwest‚ they farmed as much wheat as they could because of the high prices and demand. Of the ninety-seven acres‚ almost thirty-two million acres were being cultivated. The farmers were careless in their planting of the crop‚ caring
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The Forgotten Truth of the Dirty-Thirties HIS-190 19 November‚ 2010 When you consider the disaster of the American Dust Bowl of the Dirty Thirties on the Great Plains‚ no wonder Stephen Long of 1821 concluded that the American West was “almost wholly unfit for cultivation‚ and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.”1 It seems that Timothy Egan’s book‚ The Worst Hard Times‚ hit the nail right on the head as to the cause of the worst natural disaster
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to destroy the economy even more‚ but that is exactly what they got. The “Dust Bowl” drought is one of the worst climatic events in the history of the United States drought which devastated the United States central states region known as the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl worsened the already depressed American economy in the 1930’s‚ causing millions of dollars in damages. What caused this catastrophic event that put the central states in such a state of poverty? You cannot understand the Dust Bowl
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that leaves less space to irrigate the land and to allow moisture to enter the soil. Therefore‚ resulting in arid fields. In the 1930‘s there was huge drought in the Great Plains. A decreased amount of precipitation was another main cause of the Dust Bowl. Without precipitation‚ it is very hard to grow crops. The Great Plains already has a semi-arid climate and without the much need rain‚ this area turned into a “bowl” of dust. The average precipitation according to John Wesley Powell is 20 inches
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lost village‚ a place where natives. The Spanish: They brought horses‚ which had the same effect on the Plains Indian economy as railroads did on Anglo villages in the Midwest. Comanche: They migrated out of eastern Wyoming‚ Shoshone people who had lived in the upper Platte River drainage. With horses‚ the Comanche moved south‚ hunting and raiding over a huge swath of the southern plains. Texas Rangers : They were organized by the Republic of Texas to go after the Indians.” They made sorrow
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moved‚ which is The Gros Ventre‚ The Arapaho and the main northern group. Arapaho is developing the bison-hunting economy. The major ritual of Arapaho is a complex form of Sun dance and it is similar to the Plains region. The hand game is a funny entertainment game and popular throughout the Plains. The playing method of Hand game is all players face to each other. Then‚ one player hides the object on he or she’s back and switches them try to confuse the other player. If the other player guesses correctly
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Turtle was on a journey. This is like what people living on the Great Plains did. The environment in the Turtle and the Dust bowl was both arduous and painful. The highway was edged with a mat of tangled‚ broken dry grass. There were thistles and thorns on the way. The Turtle had his feet hurt and the grass made him hard to move forward. These uprooted grass were caused by the dust storm. In the reality‚ the Great Plain was suffering from the Dust Bowl‚ so the grass was also uprooted. And
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were struck with the Depression‚ however‚ families living across the Southern great plains were not only struck with Depression‚ but also by 300 dust storms that ruined all their land. The main reasons for the cause of the Dust Bowl were the geography of the Southern Great Plains‚ heavy machinery‚ and extremely dry climate. One of the main causes of the Dust Bowl was the geography of the Southern Great Plains. A sheepherder from the west said‚ “Grass is what holds the Earth together.” (Doc B)
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cheap land‚ farmers engulfed the Southern Plains and began to plow the land to grow wheat‚ not taking into consideration the climate and soil or ecology of the land; and there was the biggest mistake made in the Dust Bowl. During the drought of the 1930s‚ the soil was turned into dust and the wind blew the dust in huge clouds‚ which would sometimes cause the sky to blacken‚ giving it the name “black blizzard.” Dust storms mostly affected areas of Texas‚
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Indians adapted the horse lifestyle but were not as intermingled with them as the Comanche Indians. The Comanche Indians originated in the Northern Shoshones but were attracted to the abundance of buffalo and warm weather in the southern plains. When these Plains Indians acquired the horse‚ their migration to the south was much easier and quicker process than it would have been on foot. The horse was a dominant part in the lives of these Indians.4 With the movement into the new territory‚
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