Introduction The Dust Bowl of 1930 was the worst environmental disaster in the US history. Poor farming practices and extreme drought greatly damaged the ecosystem in the Great Plains.[1] The Dust Bowl was a man-make environmental destruction that completely transformed the landscape. Strong winds blew away an average of 480 tons of topsoil per acre, degrading soil productivity, harming health, and damaging air quality. [2] The wind removed the topsoil and the remaining dry soil was not…
Key Ideas Concept 1 • Native American Regions Guiding Questions • How do the four Native American regions differ? o Generalization: The Pacific Northwest, Desert Southwest, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodland regions have differing geographies, climates, and natural resources. Each region has different natural resources (water, vegetation, animals) terrains, and weather conditions which greatly affect how the tribes conduct their day to day lives. Each region has different challenges and benefits…
During the 1930’s, the American people were suffering a horrible depression, also during this time something equally awful, maybe worse, was occurring in the southern plains. It’s name was the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was a number of dust storms that occurred in the southern plains (grasslands). The land during this time was very dry, therefore the wind easily picked up dirt and topsoil. The dust accumulated so quickly, it infested households, churches, and any building, car, or human in its way…
Before the Dust Bowl, the Plains states were known for their open land potential after Congress passed the 1862 Homestead Act. Millions and millions of acres of wild grasslands covered the Great Plains and was home to many different species of animals such as bison, pronghorns, fox squirrels, great horned owls, sandpipers, barred tiger salamanders, and ornate box turtles. However, thousands and thousands of farmers soon came to the Great Plains regions in hopes of finding success through…
The Native Americans of the plains struggled to survive as European settlers began to colonize larger amounts of North America. Battles between the colonists and Native Americans left many tribes weak and unable to defend their nations. The population of the buffalo that once used to run in large herds throughout the area dwindled close to extinction due to mass hunting. By the late 1800’s the plains tribes had been stripped of their lands, their resources, and their rights. They were sent to…
The Kiowa tribe is a small, nomadic group of Plains Indians residing in the American southwest. N. Scott Momaday, the author of The Way to Rainy Mountain, is a member of the Kiowa tribe. His family has been a part of the tribe for generations (McNamara, 1). Momaday divides his story into three sections: The Setting Out, The Going On, and The Closing In. Each section tells a different part of tribe’s history. Within each section, Momaday utilizes three voices to help tell the story of his…
If one were to wander throughout the Great Plains and listen to all the words being spoken, they would notice many are not the same. This is very important to analyze because the language of a nation determines many other aspects of their culture and their thoughts (Dvek, 116). For example, many…
to the United States military on the Great Plains during the 1850s and 70s. Hamalainen main idea was that Comanches effectively paved ways for the United States for…
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.…
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 Southern Plains in the 1930’s, by Donald Worster her discusses the dust bowl and how it affected…