Tuesday‚ April 22‚ 1934 We had another dust storm yesterday. It was pretty bad. It was around 1:30 that it happened. I was outside when I saw it coming. I rushed inside and screamed‚ Dust Storm! Dad rushed inside from sealing one of the windows. Mom stopped cleaning clothes‚ and poured all of the water on any cloth that she could find. Then she hung them up on the inside of the window to catch any dust that came in. Dad went into his room and came back with some masks to put on and protect us from
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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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“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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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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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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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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this time‚ dust storms swept the nation‚ which were both destructive‚ and massive. Over farming made the soil very poor. American citizens migrated to California in the hundreds of thousands. In short‚ over farming led to gargantuan dust storms causing the dust bowl‚ forcing the development of new farming techniques‚ and government programs. In fact‚ dust storms got so bad‚ life in the thousands were dying from dust pneumonia and suffocation (The Dust Bowl 3). This Shows how serious the dust storms
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In the 1930 large areas of Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ and Colorado were hit by one of the worst dust storms in America’s history.The dust storm destroyed the land and most of the population‚ almost everyone packed up and moved west. From the 1900 to 1930 families built farms in an area of mostly grassland so crops were hard to grow. In 1931 a drought spread across the middle of the nation‚ they were already suffering from the stock market crash of 1929 and the great depression. From 1931
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matters worse violent dust storms wreaked havoc on parts of Nebraska‚ Colorado‚ Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ Texas‚ and Oklahoma causing damage to homes‚ crops‚ herds of animals‚ and people living in the area. These series of storms was called the Dust Bowl that lasted nearly a decade. The Dust Bowl was caused by the loss of short grass on the prairie‚ over farming and its harsh treatment‚ and the lack of rain causing severe drought. All of these elements had a huge role in the Dust Storms that occurred during
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