Living On The Great Plains

The Dust Bowl negatively affected people who lived there in a personal way. The dust bowl was one of the worst natural disasters in the U.S.

The Dust Bowl was a hard time, never expected. Indians, farmers and ranchers, and families of the plains. How did different groups affect the plains? The Dust Bowl changed the plains in ways in which it is still recovering today, but before the Dust Bowl took place there were others. The Great Plains Indians treated the land, and left it natural, after the Indians the ranchers came, they replaced the buffalo with cattle and other animals. Then the farmers came, they tilled the soil, and planted several different crops such as wheat, corn, and hay. (keep in mind i'm not finished)

The people who lived on the Great Plains suffered greatly and this in turn changed America. Since there was too much dust everywhere this time period was called the “dirty 30s”. Farm families usually did not have an indoor bathroom, heat, or electricity like the people who lived in town. All of the farmers worked with each other through these rough times because they believed it would get better. Although, whenever the crops were destroyed by the drought; farmers were left with no one to buy food or make payments on their farm loans. “Yet, a majority ‘toughed it out’ and stayed. And millions continue to stay, despite decades economic pressure to leave”(Reinhardt and Ganzel). This quote shows how people believed it could get better. The government started programs to hook up electricity to make farm life easier. “The Great Depression changed the lives of people who lived and formed on the Great Plains, and in turn changed America”(Reinhardt and Ganzel). The Great Depression changed millions of lives. Farm life was very difficult during the Great

The climate of the Great Plain's region is windy and dry; winds reached speeds up to 70 mph. Scientists believed that drought which caused the dust bowl to take place occurred because it happened same time as La Nina event in the Pacific Ocean. Frigid surface temputures of the ocean decreased the amount of moisture entering the jet stream and directed it south to U.S., where it hit The Great Plains.before this, The only thing that kept the soil on place is its vegetation, which is thick grass that doesn't need ,uch rain to be sustainable. The land of the west had experienced drought from 1931 to 1937 which turned out to be much worse then it would because of human interference.railroads were built throughout the United States in late 1800s. In 1862 government promised free land to anyone who moved to the prairie for five years.land that was free was an excellent profit reason for a move, while the railroads helped the migration. They planted crop and farmed. Between 1909 and 1932 more then 30 million acres of land were plowed. It seemed like a huge profit for the farmers to plow so much land, yet they ignored one moment, that the land those years lost its main protection, the grass. All plowing they did turned crucial causing the black blizzards. In 1920s people came up with new, fast, and effective ways of getting crops, they had new equipment and the work was much more efficient. Most of farmers couldn't afford such

The Dust Bowl was suffered the most in the Great Plains, in the area around Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas in the area of about 100,000,000 acres of land, in the 1930’s (Goldwag). The reason why these areas suffered the most was due to the number of fields all around them. The area suffered hardships due to human error, heat, and drought, turning fields into powder (Goldwag). This caused the hardships of the great depression to be much worse than imagined. This then implies food shortages due to the droughts, making it very difficult to feed the poor in the times of the great depression. When the droughts began to hit the plains, roughly one third of farmers left their homes, looking for migrant work (Trimarchi). These folks were known as okies (Trimarchi). The Dust Bowl affected a large area of the nation, and many peoples lives changed because of

Economic developments did not affect all farmers the same way; this was because those who in newly settled areas had to borrow money to get started and were therefore burdened with fixed interest charges (Garraty 508). Because of industrialization and numerous droughts, the Great Plains farmers had to move eastwardly to where there was hope. Between 1888 and 1892 the population of Kansas had fallen by 50 percent and wagons heading east bore the epitaph: “In God We Trusted: In Kansas We Busted.” ( Nash 498) (Doc 3) Unlike the farmers, the international immigrants had to go through a process to enter into the

Did you know that some dust storms could be 10,000 feet high? These are the storms faced by the people in the Southern Plains. During the 1930s, America was hit by the Great Depression. Many Americans lost their jobs and were forced into poverty. The Southern Plains were considered to be hit the worst by the Depression. The plains were cornered by the Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl, especially, caused agricultural failures, economic failures, and destroyed the fertile lands of the plains. The Dust Bowl was caused by the overuse of soil, dreadful weather and temperature, and the lack of developed farming system.

Most of the settlers were strong people and were not expecting an easy life. The differences between plains and hills or forests, where they were used to live, were big. Another essential, water was hard to find too. Although the land seemed rich, it was arduous to prepare for planting. Also, with no trees, there was no wood to build houses and no fences on the plains so it was difficult to keep animals away from crops.

Great Plains would be catastrophic. The result of this is The Dust Bowl. Some main questions

The Dust Bowl made it extremely hard to grow and raise crops. “The Dust Bowl covered a huge amount of farmland which was the main cash source for the farmers living in Oklahoma.” The reason why farming was such a popular job there was because the soil was so rich with nutrients that crops grew phenomenally. It was a very hard job to uncover the remaining soil under their land to continue growing crops. It was a very hard job to do this because

treacherous terrain. It was bad. It was a major decrease in population on both the Cherokees

Between 1930 and 1940, the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought. Once was great farm land for many settlers in the great plains became a desolate wasteland, which became known as the Dust Bowl. To make matters even worse the government passed the “Homestead Act” which helped move farmers and settlers into the central part of the U.S once the Native Americans were removed. Most of the settlers farmed their land or grazed cattle during the time which resulted in the loss of crops and loss of livestock because the horde conditions. Another result of the Dust Bowl was farms farming dry land on the Great Plains which led to the systematic destruction of the prairie grasses in the ranching regions, overgrazing

The Seminole farmers found themselves with land unsuitable for farming. The Seminoles suffered from poverty on the reservation

There was one big problem, that caused,"Black Sunday." The problem was that the farm people, pulled up all of the grass and all that was left was dirt. After there was just dirt left, a huge drought came through the great plains. Then what was worst of all, was that the wind was so strong it took up all of the top layer of soil, then one by one it went. According to the article," Less rain fell throughout the Plains. The ground dried up, crumbiling

Before the European settlement of Iowa, the state was a land covered in tall prairie grasses, wetlands, and small forests. The Native Americans thrived on these lands by using pockets of the fertile soil for agriculture and hunting the abundance of wildlife that roamed these plains. By the late 1800s however, the prairie had become farmland and the Europeans had begun their new lives along Iowa’s waterways and railroads. Within a century Iowa’s landscape had changed rapidly due to human activity.