Dust Bowl

When looking at all of the environmental disasters of the United States, the BP Oil Spill and Dust Bowl are by far two of the most devastating disasters to the surrounding environment and ecosystem. Although both natural disasters have different characteristics and environmental effects, each disaster greatly impacted the surrounding ecosystems from before and after the disasters. Although the Gulf of Mexico before the BP oil spill was still known for its suffering under the effects of coastal…

Everyday, people are faced with tough circumstances and even tougher decisions that must be made. In John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, devastation and poverty brought about by the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s forces people to make a very tough, dicey decision- stay on their homeland, where life is nearly impossible but familiar, or move West to California, where there are supposedly more jobs and better land. Steinbeck chooses to narrate this American journey by alternating the focus of…

the stock market, bank failures, and reduction in purchases nationwide, the Great Depression combined with the Dust Bowl to devastate Americans for years to come. They would also eventually be known as two of the most impactful events from the 1920s. The Dust Bowl was a name given to all of the regions that were affected by the substantial drought in the early 1900s. The term “Dust Bowl” was actually first used by an Associated Press Reporter named Robert Geiger ( Moss and Wilson 46). One area…

The dust bowl: A Tragic Time in America (1930’s) The dust bowl was a horrible event for people because it was a severe dust storm that greatly damaged the environment, also a severe drought industry. What is the dust bowl you might think it's dust in a bowl but it's not it's a period of dust storms that damaged people's lives and economy also a severe drought to cause a failure to dryland pretty much to make an erosion on land. Farmers over planted and overgrazed their lands, they also failed to…

The Dust Bowl started in the 1930s and lasted for about a decade. During the Dust Bowl there was dust everywhere. There was dust piled up in houses in people's lund everywhere you looked. All of this dust affected family dynamics. Most all families had to migrate to the western states where there was no dust. When they were moving they had to leave their homes most people left whatever they had behind and if they didn’t leave what they had behind they would pack it in their cars and leave. When…

6) The Dust Bowl: The Impact on Economic Prosperity for Blacks and Whites (Notes) Hailey Gunter a) The Dust Bowl was a drought from 1934 to 1937 it affected the land and made it hard for grass to grow. Without the grass the soil had no anchcor, so the wind would pick up the top soil and swirl it into dense dust clouds. The Dust Bowl took place in the Great Plaines region. Agricultural farmers and citizens of Oklahoma,…

“The Dust Bowl” is a documentary movie by Ken Burns. The film describes the environmental and economic disaster Midwesterners faced during the mid-1930’s. Present day interviews with survivors of the dust bowl punctuate the photographs, stories, facts, and film footage throughout the movie. The documentary gives 20th century Americans a glimpse of the hardships faced by farmers and their families and friends some 80 years ago. Dust Pneumonia During the dust bowl, the amount of dirt was so…

basis. In Donald Worsters book "Dust Bowl" he writes about the Great Plains and how the people have struggled through out "the dirty thirties". In Chapter 9 "Unsettled Ground" George Taton Believes that if people would have just gave up trying to plant seed in dust that mother nature would have fixed the Plains in half the time it had took. The 1930s were a hard time on America that should be remembered so our country does not make the mistake again. "Dust Bowl" is a well written book and…

The Dust Bowl was a time where dangerous dust storms damaged the agriculture of the Great Plains. One hundred million acres were turned into dust due to overfarming and wind erosion. Three major dust storms occurred in 1934, 1936 and 1939-40, which resulted in erosion and loss of topsoil. These storms hit Oklahoma, Texas, sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico leaving many families nowhere to go .It lasted for almost a decade. Some say that this is the worst manmade ecological disaster in…

In the 1930’s a Dust Bowl destroyed many states including Oklahoma, Kansas, and even as far West in California. This was discouraging for many that were already in a hardship from the stock market crash and high unemployment. With no savings and no money to feed their families the Dust Bowl made the situation worse when it ruined crops and farms that people made a living off and fed from. At a time when everyone would lose faith and become unbearable John Steinbeck published a book called The…