Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was caused by a number of reasons‚ which later led to grow an effect on the Great Depression. But first‚ what was the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl was severe dust storms that caused soil erosion in the 1930’s. "In the middle thirties these wind-driven dusters darkened the midday sky and carried off millions of tons of precious topsoil as far as Washington DC and New York City." The unbearable dust storms of the 1930’s were all due to farmers over-plowing‚ the prolonged drought
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Remembering the Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was a significant event in our country’s history that had various lasting effects on American Society. Social‚ economic‚ and political changes occurred because of this disastrous and difficult time in America. The Dust Bowl was a turning point in the Great Plaines‚ moreover‚ Oklahoma‚ Colorado‚ New Mexico‚ Kansas‚ and a small portion of Texas. It changed life as Americans knew it during the 1930’s. It created a large economic and agricultural recession
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John Mayernik History 124 November 20th 2009 The Dust Bowl The southern plains were one of the greatest places to be in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. Farmers were producing crops with ease‚ some were even overproducing. Wheat was one of the main things that were making farmers so successful‚ everything was just growing right for them at the time. In 1931 though there was a drought for farmers‚ in which many dust storms hit the Southern plains‚ causing an indescribable amount of damage to
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s The decade that became known as the "Dirty Thirties" was literally quite what its name implied-dirty! During the period of 1930-1940‚ located in the heart of the Great Plains of the United States‚ was a series of massive dust storms and long-term drought. Another well-earned nickname this region was known for was the Dust Bowl. The Great Depression occurred at this time as well and added to the suffering placed upon the many poor farmers of the Southwest region. What
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Dust Bowl Tragedies Imagine being blinded by dirt and disoriented by wind. Imagine having to cover your faces whenever you left the house and having to cover your food whenever you ate. Well‚ welcome to the Dust Bowl. During the 1930’s dust storms took over the Great Plains and the borders of Texas and Oklahoma. Many Americans had troublesome days due to the dust storms which were mainly caused by the loss of short grass prairie. With tractors many farmers over plowed their fields and with the
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The Dust Bowl is an important event to American history because a lot of lives were lost and people were struggling because of the Great Depression. It was the worst years in the 1930s for the people who were living back then in the middle of the US. Americans who lived through the dust bowl were really affected and even the people who left the state were affected to. Before the Dust Bowl‚ The Southeastern Plains was the best place for farmers to go farming and planting. The grass that covered
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Krysta Howard Jeffrey Schulze History 1302‚ Section 001 2 March 2012 The Dust Bowl Donald Worster believed the Dust Bowl was “the inevitable outcome of a culture that deliberately‚ self-consciously‚ set itself that task of dominating and exploiting the land for all it was worth”(Worster‚ 4). He investigated this phenomenon‚ which took place in the “dirty thirties”‚ and came to the conclusion that capitalism was to blame. The inhabitants of the Great Plains responded quite differently than
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Dust Bowl? In the 1930’s many people were devastated by vast dust storms. Many people suffered from them in Kansas‚ Colorado‚ New Mexico‚ Oklahoma‚ and Texas and some people even died. In the fiction book Out of the Dust‚ an Oklahoma girl named Billie Jo tells her story on how she survives the Dust Bowl with the loss of her mother. Billie Jo also describes the pain she is going through having her beloved piano destroyed by a dust storm. Lots of people think differently on how the Dust Bowl was caused
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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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As part of a five-state region affected by severe drought and soil erosion‚ the "Dust Bowl" as it was called was result of several factors. Cyclical drought and farming of marginally productive acreage was exacerbated by a lack of soil conservation methods. Because the disaster lasted throughout the 1930’s‚ the lives of every Plains resident and expectations of farming the region changed forever. The settlement and development of the Southern Plains came relatively late. Not recognizing the problems
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