Dust Storms In The 1930's

In the 1930’s, there was a lot of things going on, such as the Great Depression, racial slurs, stock market crashes, etc. Not far behind, the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” was published in 1960. There were a lot of things that occurred in that time period that relate to this book, such as The Dust Bowl. Crops died so people didn’t have a lot of money, which is the connection with this book and The Dust Bowl.

The Dust Bowl, known as the Dirty 30’s, was a period of dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the United States and Canadian Prairies during 1930 through 1940. Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon. This event occurred in parts of Canada and the lower parts of the U.S . The farmers of the southern states of America were mostly affected. Due to the hot summers and dry weather …show more content…
They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was the President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. The Okies were poor migrators from Oklahoma. Since states in the west were getting so populated due to the migration, they started sending out police deputies to go to the state border lines to send migrators back to where they came from. this led thousands of people to be homeless, since they couldn’t find any homes to permanently stay in.

As of today, we still have drought problems and sometimes in the southern states we still have some dust storms. We have learned to cope with it by making different types of contraptions to help us avoid big catastrophes. In the book, “To Kill A Mockingbird” there were crop problems just like in real life. Scout learned a lesson about how we as people depend on so many things that we don’t really notice, like the grass, dirt, etc. and sometimes, we take these things for granted. Scout learned how we need these things as humans and we always