The Dust Bowl is an important event to American history because a lot of lives were lost and people were struggling because of the Great Depression. It was the worst years in the 1930s for the people who were living back then in the middle of the US. Americans who lived through the dust bowl were really affected and even the people who left the state were affected to. Before the Dust Bowl‚ The Southeastern Plains was the best place for farmers to go farming and planting. The grass that covered
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Dust Bowl? In the 1930’s many people were devastated by vast dust storms. Many people suffered from them in Kansas‚ Colorado‚ New Mexico‚ Oklahoma‚ and Texas and some people even died. In the fiction book Out of the Dust‚ an Oklahoma girl named Billie Jo tells her story on how she survives the Dust Bowl with the loss of her mother. Billie Jo also describes the pain she is going through having her beloved piano destroyed by a dust storm. Lots of people think differently on how the Dust Bowl was caused
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The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. The 150‚000-square-mile area‚ encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico‚ has little rainfall‚ light soil‚ and high winds‚ a potentially destructive combination. When drought struck from 1934 to 1937‚ the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor‚ so the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled
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shrank as 120‚000 Mexicans were banished. In the 1930s‚ farmers from the Midwestern Dust Bowl states‚ especially Oklahoma and Arkansas‚ began to move to California; 250‚000 arrived by 1940‚ including a third who moved into the San Joaquin Valley‚ which had a 1930 population of 540‚000. During the 1930s‚ some 2.5 million people left the Midwest states. The Modesto Bee on September 30‚ 2008 reviewed Dust Bowl migration to California. A series of wet years in the 1920s led farmers to believe that
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As part of a five-state region affected by severe drought and soil erosion‚ the "Dust Bowl" as it was called was result of several factors. Cyclical drought and farming of marginally productive acreage was exacerbated by a lack of soil conservation methods. Because the disaster lasted throughout the 1930’s‚ the lives of every Plains resident and expectations of farming the region changed forever. The settlement and development of the Southern Plains came relatively late. Not recognizing the problems
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Life During the Dust Bowl The Great Depression which began in 1929 and ended in 1939 was the worst economic disaster in history. There were many factors playing into the cause of the depression but here I am going to talk about the effects of the depression. What became known as the dust bowl hit the country in 1930 and by 1934 severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion had turned the midwest into a desolate wasteland. Our very own home state of Kansas
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s The decade that became known as the "Dirty Thirties" was literally quite what its name implied-dirty! During the period of 1930-1940‚ located in the heart of the Great Plains of the United States‚ was a series of massive dust storms and long-term drought. Another well-earned nickname this region was known for was the Dust Bowl. The Great Depression occurred at this time as well and added to the suffering placed upon the many poor farmers of the Southwest region. What
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Krysta Howard Jeffrey Schulze History 1302‚ Section 001 2 March 2012 The Dust Bowl Donald Worster believed the Dust Bowl was “the inevitable outcome of a culture that deliberately‚ self-consciously‚ set itself that task of dominating and exploiting the land for all it was worth”(Worster‚ 4). He investigated this phenomenon‚ which took place in the “dirty thirties”‚ and came to the conclusion that capitalism was to blame. The inhabitants of the Great Plains responded quite differently than
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actions caused the dust bowl. There are many reasons why people caused the dust bowl. People used the wrong agricultural practices when farming. “With insufficient understanding of the ecology of the plains‚ farmers had conducted extensive deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains during the previous decade; this had displaced the native‚ deep-rooted grasses that normally trapped soil and moisture even during periods of drought and high winds.” ("Dust Bowl" ). Farmers didn’t know
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