The Dust Bowl In John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath

The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s, forced many families to move to different parts of the country, devastated the livelihoods of farmers; the relief was The New Deal. "Dust Bowl" was a term born in the hard times from the people who lived in the drought-stricken region during the great depression. The "Dust Bowl Days" also known as the "Dirty Thirties" took their toll on the people of this region of the country with the many extremes of weather: blizzards, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and dirt storms. This disaster occurred in the area of The Great Plains, which covered parts of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. It occurred during the years of 1933 to 1939. The uprooting, poverty, and human suffering caused during this period is notably shown in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. So the question is how did it happen? What was the relief?

Its cause is complicated. Poor agricultural practices and years of continued drought caused the Dust Bowl. When the drought combined with the heat, the Earth dried and cracked. Then the winds came and took the grasslands with
They did so through Roosevelt ’s New Deal programs, which were created to help people recover from the Great Depression. The drought relief programs of the New Deal included programs to: provide emergency supplies to farmers and ranchers; meet emergency medical needs; stabilize the agricultural market; and help agricultural producers establish good land management practices. It's hard to determine just how much the impacts of the 1930s drought cost, but the federal government probably spent about $1 billion on relief efforts by the time the droughts were over. Most of the money was spent to help people recover from the damage caused by drought, but Congress also put money into some new programs that were aimed at making the nation less vulnerable to the impacts of