The Role Of The Dust Storm In America's History
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 to 1935 they had almost no rain at all.
For 5 years straight there crops failed, they also had financial troubles along with the horror of their surroundings .
Winds reached 50 or 60 mph dust buried the roads it flew through windows and farms killing
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 to 1935 they had almost no rain at all.
For 5 years straight there crops failed, they also had financial troubles along with the horror of their surroundings .
Winds reached 50 or 60 mph dust buried the roads it flew through windows and farms killing