Dust Bowl Research Paper

n the 1930s, in the Great Plains region, people were dying due to excessive dust inhalation, this is known as Dust Pneumonia. Farmers were not making the best decisions and it was a decade full of droughts. All of this lead to the start of the Dust Bowl and a miserable decade for the Great Plains area. The Dust Bowl negatively affected people during the drought and dust storms by causing a major loss in money and sending people cross-country for work; therefore, entities including the government helped out with the problems by creating new legislation. People’s life-spans and health declined due to the detrimental effects of the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl increased the length of the Great Depression longer than expected (About the Dust Bowl). The Dust Bowl contributed to the catastrophes that hurt almost the entire Great Plains region; therefore, it caused them to be in a depressed era for a longer period of time than the U.S. expected. One-third of the nation was ill-housed, ill-clad, or ill-nourished (About the Dust Bowl). The Dust Bowl was a major cause of …show more content…
The drought made it hard to determine direct and indirect costs of almost anything on the market (Drought Basics). Everyone had little to no money after the Dust Bowl; therefore, it made it hard to make all the prices even for everyone. Millions of people migrated West for work, especially work on a farm (Drought in the Dust Bowl Years). The Great Plains lost almost all of their workforce because the dust storms destroyed most of the farms. Californians gained a twenty-five percent raise due to the strike, they went on because eighteen thousand plus migrants came in and tried to steal their wage (About the Dust Bowl). Migrants from the Great Plains went West, mainly to California, for work. The Californians thought they were losing part of their wages to migrants, which lead them to go on