The Dust Bowl began on Thursday‚ April 18‚ 1935‚ it was a huge‚ black‚ cloud of dirt‚ piled up on the western horizon. This storm was enormous and deadly. The Dust Bowl affected Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ parts of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico. These states were vulnerable to the dust storm due to their lack of rainfall‚ light soil‚ and high winds. As a result‚ soil lacked the the strong roots of grass in order to stay in place‚ this made it easier for high‚ hectic winds to get a hold of the soil. Years
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Causes of the Dust Bowl One of the most devastating environmental crises that occurred in the United States was the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl began shortly after the Great Depression began in 1929 and lasted throughout the 1930’s. It affected everyone‚ farmers and consumers alike‚ in its path negatively. The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s was caused by four major factors: drought‚ climate misconception‚ poor land management‚ and most importantly‚ wind erosion. The first of the four major factors is drought
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Depression came dust bowls (Seelye). They ruined the environment for many farmers in Oklahoma‚ Kansas‚ and other midwest states(Seelye). People felt that as the ground started drying up so did the people and their community (Seelye). The dust bowls dried up their ground at the people’s
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the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl‚ also referred to as the “Dirty Thirties‚” was a time of extremely disastrous dust storms that significantly affected the agriculture of the U.S. Promised 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
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The Dust Bowl: The Era of Destruction The 1920’s was a horrible time for all‚ especially those from the midwest‚ and those farmers now had to use new and improved methods involving machines and new revolutions to increase the speed and growth of their extravagant crops. But now the damage is done‚ because World War 1 is over. Most thought this destruction was at an end and only good was to come‚ but in 1931 things took a turn for the worst and more devastation piled on from an era known as the “Dirty
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The Dust Bowl was a treacherous storm‚ which occurred in the 1930’s‚ that affected the midwestern people‚ for example the farmers‚ and which taught us new technologies and methods of farming. As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas‚ families‚ tribes‚ dusted out. Carloads‚ caravans‚ homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two
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will begin chattering nervously‚ and all of the sudden a huge black cloud of dust appears on the horizon‚ coming straight for you... This is an eyewitness account of J.R. Davison‚ a homestead owner in Oklahoma. But it didn’t only affect him‚ this is what everyone in Oklahoma‚ and the rest of the heartland experienced on April 14‚ 1935‚ better known as Black Sunday‚ the worst dust storm during the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl started when agriculturalists removed the majority of native grasses in order
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the dust bowl is that it wasn’t enough water there so it got dry because they used all the water up then a drought came;we need to learn to protect our water resources. Support my thesis:”The drought and its associated dust storms created one of the most severe environmental catastrophes in U.S. history and led to the popular characterization of much of the southern Great Plains as the “Dust Bowl” (Schubert). My thoughts:1: If they had more water it would have never been a drought 2: The dust bowl
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erosion and depletion of minerals in the soil needed to maintain plant life. Without windbreaks to protect dry soil‚ lack of root systems to hold the soil into place; winds swept through the barren fields creating dust storms that carried precious topsoil across the country. The dust bowl of the 1930s initiated one of the first wide-scale conservation efforts in the United States. Through legislation proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ programs were set into motion to revive mid-western farming
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us.” Stories like this were normal for the hundreds of thousands affected by the 1930s dust storms (Dawidziak). Due to the quick overturn of soil caused by the high demand for produce and the lack of rain‚ the dust storms that occurred the the American region known as the Dust Bowl‚ were torrential.
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