Cause And Effect Of The Dust Bowl On Children

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Children gain developed minds by exploring the outdoors and beginning to understand the real word. It is unimaginable to state that many children, during the era of the Dust Bowl, feared the slightest glance out the window as they would experience a sight like no other. Looking outside the window, on a sunny day, could result in a child viewing a terrible dust storm that would be embedded in their young minds. The Dust Bowl, originating in 1930, spread across the Eastern part of the United States. The Great Plains could have been easily mistaken for a desert. Humans were one of the causes for the Dust Bowl to begin with. During World War I, when wheat crops were highly demanded, land was left exhausted as it was misused (“The Drought”). It

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