What Caused the Dust Bowl?
In the 1930’s, there was a horrific time in U.S. history that left a part of the U.S. in the dust. The Southern Plains area of the United States from Texas to Oklahoma panhandle was the hardest hit of the Dust Bowl. A few years passed, then the country was hit with the Depression. This was very difficult for the farmers in the Southern Plains of the United States, because they were hit the worst. With hardly any precipitation it was difficult to get the crops to grow. The farm land was drying up with out the grassland, the winds stirred the dust. There were children dying from dust pneumonia. The question is what caused the Dust Bowl? I believe that this was caused by human error.
The short grass was able to feed the cattle and the …show more content…
In the 1930’s the precipitation was mostly dry. There was nine years that precipitation was below normal, with the average of seventeen inches of annual rainfall in the five towns of the Dust Bowl (Doc E). The settler’s families were moving to the cities or to other neboring states like California. These factors combined into the perfect storm. Depression came in and there were no jobs to be found. With all the dust that was stirred up with the strong winds, this made if very difficult for people to go outside to even work (Doc A).
If the Federal Government would not have sweetened the pot of 320 more acres of grassland, if they committed to stay for three years. The farmers would not have plowed most of the grassland that kept the soil protected from storms, the soil crumbled with the need of precipitation and the horrible winds causing dust bowls through out the Great Southern Plains. This is my thought of what caused the Dust Bowl, human error. With all these facts combined to the dust storm, I would have to say this was the Perfect Storm in the Southern Great
In the 1930’s, there was a horrific time in U.S. history that left a part of the U.S. in the dust. The Southern Plains area of the United States from Texas to Oklahoma panhandle was the hardest hit of the Dust Bowl. A few years passed, then the country was hit with the Depression. This was very difficult for the farmers in the Southern Plains of the United States, because they were hit the worst. With hardly any precipitation it was difficult to get the crops to grow. The farm land was drying up with out the grassland, the winds stirred the dust. There were children dying from dust pneumonia. The question is what caused the Dust Bowl? I believe that this was caused by human error.
The short grass was able to feed the cattle and the …show more content…
In the 1930’s the precipitation was mostly dry. There was nine years that precipitation was below normal, with the average of seventeen inches of annual rainfall in the five towns of the Dust Bowl (Doc E). The settler’s families were moving to the cities or to other neboring states like California. These factors combined into the perfect storm. Depression came in and there were no jobs to be found. With all the dust that was stirred up with the strong winds, this made if very difficult for people to go outside to even work (Doc A).
If the Federal Government would not have sweetened the pot of 320 more acres of grassland, if they committed to stay for three years. The farmers would not have plowed most of the grassland that kept the soil protected from storms, the soil crumbled with the need of precipitation and the horrible winds causing dust bowls through out the Great Southern Plains. This is my thought of what caused the Dust Bowl, human error. With all these facts combined to the dust storm, I would have to say this was the Perfect Storm in the Southern Great