DBQ Essay: What Caused The Dust Bowl?
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? Three years of blinding, choking and burning dust storms. For ten years these dust storms battered the South and ruined all agriculture in the area. But what caused these massive dusters? Well, many things caused it: drought, erosion, and surprisingly, …show more content…
The new advanced technology allowed for farms to be expanded even further and faster. The overwhelming increase in farming between 1879 and 1929 increased over tenfold. The government realized that something had to be done; Congress decided to repeal the Enlarged Homestead Act in the 1930s. This had little effect on the horror of what became over-farming. Then it hit, the Dust Bowl, a flurry of massive sand and dust storm rained down onto the unsuspecting farmer. Over five hundred people died throughout the decade the storms lasted, many others farms were destroyed beyond repair.
While there might not of been a single cause of the Dust Bowl, it was a combination of weather, over-farming, and good ideas that didn't work out. Many people died and many others lives were ruined. It was one of the worst times during America's existence, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl all in the short time of ten years. To answer the main question, what caused the Dust Bowl, it could be hundreds of different tiny mistakes and mishaps that all combined to make the slaughter that was the Dust
“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? Three years of blinding, choking and burning dust storms. For ten years these dust storms battered the South and ruined all agriculture in the area. But what caused these massive dusters? Well, many things caused it: drought, erosion, and surprisingly, …show more content…
The new advanced technology allowed for farms to be expanded even further and faster. The overwhelming increase in farming between 1879 and 1929 increased over tenfold. The government realized that something had to be done; Congress decided to repeal the Enlarged Homestead Act in the 1930s. This had little effect on the horror of what became over-farming. Then it hit, the Dust Bowl, a flurry of massive sand and dust storm rained down onto the unsuspecting farmer. Over five hundred people died throughout the decade the storms lasted, many others farms were destroyed beyond repair.
While there might not of been a single cause of the Dust Bowl, it was a combination of weather, over-farming, and good ideas that didn't work out. Many people died and many others lives were ruined. It was one of the worst times during America's existence, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl all in the short time of ten years. To answer the main question, what caused the Dust Bowl, it could be hundreds of different tiny mistakes and mishaps that all combined to make the slaughter that was the Dust