Life During The Great Depression
The Great Depression
This essay will discuss the suffering experiences that Americans had during the dust bowl in the Great Depression. The great depression began in the United States soon after the stock market crash in October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic. For the next ten years the consumer spending dropped causing sharp declines in industrial production and so raising a considerable amount of homelessness and unemployment. In the Great Depression, events such as dust bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology occurred. This mainly affected the farmers in the affected areas but this eventually made the life in the United States difficult in this time period. …show more content…
New technology that made possible big agricultural expansion. This expansion was also necessary to pay for the expenses of new equipment and development. When the national economy went into a decline because of the Great Depression, agriculture was one of the most affected. The American agricultural expansion and a sense of autonomy of nature, aggressively exploit the land and established the region for an ecological disaster. Grain prices during World War I were way too high, which attracted farmers to plow millions of acres of natural cover to plant wheat grass. After this, the prices fell extraordinary during the Great Depression. In addition, Poor agricultural practices contributed to the great drought of the Great Depression. To sum it up, the dust bowl was created by a drought on the land plow, and techniques of farmers. When farmers plow the soil, they stripped the soil's natural defense against bad weather, a thick layer of prairie grasses. When the winds picked up. This affected the living conditions in the plains. Some people get caught up in dust storms and were killed because they could not breathe. According to Sprol "In 1931, dust from the seriously over-plowed and over-grazed prairie lands began to blow. And, it continued to blow for eight long, dry years. As the storms blew across the plains, it came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the
This essay will discuss the suffering experiences that Americans had during the dust bowl in the Great Depression. The great depression began in the United States soon after the stock market crash in October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic. For the next ten years the consumer spending dropped causing sharp declines in industrial production and so raising a considerable amount of homelessness and unemployment. In the Great Depression, events such as dust bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology occurred. This mainly affected the farmers in the affected areas but this eventually made the life in the United States difficult in this time period. …show more content…
New technology that made possible big agricultural expansion. This expansion was also necessary to pay for the expenses of new equipment and development. When the national economy went into a decline because of the Great Depression, agriculture was one of the most affected. The American agricultural expansion and a sense of autonomy of nature, aggressively exploit the land and established the region for an ecological disaster. Grain prices during World War I were way too high, which attracted farmers to plow millions of acres of natural cover to plant wheat grass. After this, the prices fell extraordinary during the Great Depression. In addition, Poor agricultural practices contributed to the great drought of the Great Depression. To sum it up, the dust bowl was created by a drought on the land plow, and techniques of farmers. When farmers plow the soil, they stripped the soil's natural defense against bad weather, a thick layer of prairie grasses. When the winds picked up. This affected the living conditions in the plains. Some people get caught up in dust storms and were killed because they could not breathe. According to Sprol "In 1931, dust from the seriously over-plowed and over-grazed prairie lands began to blow. And, it continued to blow for eight long, dry years. As the storms blew across the plains, it came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the