The Dust Bowl was known as the Dirty Thirties, it was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe droughts and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused by the phenomenon. The drought and erosion the Dust Bowl affected was 100,000,000 acres. The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their house and their farms. The panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma touched
Why would anyone live in a place where crops don’t grow because the soil is blowing away? The dust bowl was one of the places so dry and windy that people there wore handkerchiefs just to keep all the dirt and dust out of their eyes. This desolate area was the western third of Kansas where there was no rain and three words ruled their life - if it rains. According to the article called “The Drought” by the Public Broadcasting Organization, before the western third of Kansas got its name the land
a house constantly filled with dust in every crease and crevice. It would be a horrible place to live your everyday life. The Dust Bowl occurred in the 1930’s. It was a span of dust storms that lasted for around eight years. It was known as the “Dirty Thirties”. The dust bowl left an effect on everybody. There were many causes of the Dust Bowl and everyone, including the farmers, had their own ways to deal with it. For people to understand more about the dust bowl they need to know what caused the
some dust storms could be 10,000 feet high? These are the storms faced by the people in the Southern Plains. During the 1930s, America was hit by the Great Depression. Many Americans lost their jobs and were forced into poverty. The Southern Plains were considered to be hit the worst by the Depression. The plains were cornered by the Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl, especially, caused agricultural failures, economic failures, and destroyed the fertile lands of the plains. The Dust Bowl
Even a small thing like dust can affect an entire country or continent, especially if there are tons of it. The 1930s, better known as “the dirty thirties,” was a hard time for many people because of the Great American Dust Bowl. The Great American Dust Bowl was one of the most catastrophic events in the world. Even though the Dust Bowl lasted four years, it felt like it could have lasted for more than a decade. Drought was caused by the “Prolonged misuse of grasslands in parts of Kansas, Colorado
The Great Dust Bowl Did you know that the Dust Bowl from the 1930s affected 100,000,000 acres or 400,000 kilometers^2 of the Great Plains in the United States of America? This time “was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie land”. During this time, farmers of the Great Plains were experiencing many hardships, which were brought on by a combination of poor farming practices, drought, and erosion prevention. “Millions of acres
Migration of the Famers during the Dust Bowl Have you ever heard of the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl took place in the 1920s. The Dust Bowl took place in the Great Plains in the United States. The Great Plains are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. On May 20, 1862, The United States Congress passed the Homestead Act. This act encouraged thousands of Americans living in crowded conditions along the east coast to move to the Great Plains
Plains did not acknowledge the dust storms as a threat, and continued to plow up the grass that held the soil together. A book by Donald Worster titled Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, offered vivid descriptions of the effects of dust storms. One example was of a “small town printer [named] Nate White…” who was unable to see and “it was as if someone had put a blindfold over his eyes.” (Doc. A). The citizens in the Southern Plains had experienced the dust storm’s effects but, “ignored
The Dust Bowl, also known as “the Dirty Thirties,” was a tragic period of droughts in the Plains region of the United States during the 1930’s that ultimately lead to mass exodus of the population and difficult times for agriculture. Although the Dust Bowl is mainly remembered for agriculture damage, it also had an influential role with the Great Depression’s bank closures, rise in unemployment and business losses, and caused a ripple effect across the entire country. The phenomenon was not only
In this game, “Interactive Dust Bowl,” I embarked an experience that would show me what life was like on the southern Great Plains during the dustbowl. If I were to live in the Dust Bowl, I would have faced tough decisions such as expanding my farm, meeting neighbors, or just give up and head west. The decisions I made throughout this game, are real life decisions that people of that era made. I wanted to stay in the dustbowl, until I finally said that was “enough” and finally head west because I