Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl was a tragic event that occurred mostly in the Midwest as well the mid-south. A dust storm is when strong winds blow loose sand and other loose objects from the ground. We probably all have experienced a mass of rainfall at one time, now imagine that all being dust and sand, but they had no rain. It was a extremely dark period of time, literally dark, there was so much dust that it would be similar to a tremendous black cloud yet one that was lower to the ground. The Dust Bowl was…

The Dust Bowl Benton Berger The dust bowl was a drastic time for “the breadbasket of the USA” (Western U.S.A.) The dust bowl was the result of farmers trying to get the most money possible and not using correct farming practices. Many people had to abandon homes and farmland. The dust bowl started when farmers were trying to make more money, caused many things for people, and had a bad outcome on the land for a long time. The beginning of the dust bowl may have been in the 1930s but one cause…

The Dust Bowl was a time during the 1930s. The Dust Bowl hit Texas and Oklahoma. The Dust Bowl also touched the borders of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. The Dust Bowl is because during those years there was a drought and they tried to plow the fields. They failed to see a way to prevent wind erosion, so that caused the Dust Bowl. The demand for economic demand for agricultural products played a part in the Dust Bowl because there was much of a demand for Ag products that the farmers kept on…

The Dust Bowl When you hear someone mention “The Dirty Thirties”, you would assume it’s some kind of band. Perhaps, when “The Dust Bowl” is mentioned, a football game comes into mind. But both names relate to the 1930s Dust Bowl, which included many details common to dust storms and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region. The area has recovered in its aftermath. Many parts of the Dust Bowl are common to droughts and dust storms. A drought is when land…

The dust bowl was a huge epidemic that happened during the 1930’s. During this period the dust bowl caused severe dust storms that damaged the agriculture and ecology of the United States Great Plains. This was due to the extreme drought only made life more difficult. It affected many ranchers and farmers in the South like Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. This lead people to either staying with their farm and sticking it out or leaving everything behind to find a new job. In the book, Dust Bowl: The…

in the 1930s. Extending over a 150,000 square mile land and including parts of five states, Texas, Oklahoma, western Kansas, the eastern Colorado and New Mexico, the Dust Bowl was a period where more than 100 million acres of land of terrains were denied from ripe soil leaving only dry grounds and hills of dust all around. The Dust Bowl took place around the 1930s in the Great Plains due to the farmers over cultivating the land and causing soil to erode, heat waves, high winds and droughts.…

As specified by Donald Worster, the writer of his book, "The Dust Bowl", The Dust Bowl was the darkest crossroads in every last one of US History, especially in the twentieth-century life of the southern fields," (pg. 4). It was a day and age where extreme starvations, dry seasons, destitution and collapses that have existed back in the 1930's. This period was additionally America's "Crash Course" as a result of the bedlam that have happened. As Worster states this in an extremely exhaustive way…

would receive 320 acres of land. World War 1 was good for the Plains farmers. The farmers were able to sell wheat at a very high price to Europe. However, there was a downfall. Along with the unemployment during the Great Depression, there were severe dust storms. In the 1930s, more than 3 million people left their farms to get away from the deadly storms. Many more stayed where they were. They covered…

decade. It caused high temperatures, high winds, and no rainfall. 4.The Dust Bowl got its name from a journalist traveling through the region. 5.The states of Texas, Oklahoma, western Kansas, eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico were included in the Dust Bowl. These five states were part of the Dust Bowl…

After the farmers prepared the land in the 1920s and 30s to plant wheat a horrible drought came along and killed the plants. After that, came the Dust Bowl which happened when severe winds blew the topsoil of the lands and left it empty. The dust would get so bad at times that people had to breathe in and out of handkerchiefs to keep from choking on the dust. This tragedy forced them out of their home in Oklahoma with nothing. During this hard time, everyone was looking for work and trying to…