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    During the the great dustorms of the 1930s many people and animals dies of suffocation from the dust filling their lungs. The years of the great depression hit cities in small towns and especially the farms in the mid states very hard. So during those years the U.S was under a great depression and was starving for food from farmers that are not making enough money to make food so the government was going to give and farmer lots of money to make farms in the mid states and grow food and wheat for

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    The dust bowl killed a lot of , people's dreams, people cattle, also the people crops and food was all swept away when those horrible big dust storms came rolling from south dakota, to texas, it also hit many states on it way like oklahoma, nebraska, kansas. The dust bowl was one of the most common known drought in american history. The dust bowl is one of the things that you just have to know and learn about at least in your 9th grade. The dust bowl is one of the many things that will always be

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    Dust Bowl Dbq Analysis

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    Plains did not acknowledge the dust storms as a threat, and continued to plow up the grass that held the soil together. A book by Donald Worster titled Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, offered vivid descriptions of the effects of dust storms. One example was of a “small town printer [named] Nate White…” who was unable to see and “it was as if someone had put a blindfold over his eyes.” (Doc. A). The citizens in the Southern Plains had experienced the dust storm’s effects but, “ignored

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    The dust storm also known as “dirty thirties” was a huge contributor for the great depression within the south. The term “dust bowl” was created in 1935 by Robert Geiger a reporter when he said “Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer’s tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent—if it rains.” During the 1910’s and 20’s the plains were unusually wet and seen as the ideal place for farming. The plains had great top soil at one point, but after the World War I cattle men over

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    The Dust Bowl In the Southern Great Plains States it was a natural disaster. Farming on the Great Plains was almost impossible. The people couldn’t buy crops because the depression left them poor. In the 1930s the land became a desert because of the drought. Constant winds whipped the dry earth into blinding storms of dust, so much dust that it settled as far away as Boston and New York. The storm was unbelievable. It would blister your face and put your eyes out. The dirt was steady blowing

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    The early 1900’s was a time of turmoil for farmers in the U.S especially farmers in the Great Plains region. When World War I ended, farmers began to over produce crops so they could sell them at a low price. With low prices at an all time low all the citizens wanted crops which helped farmers make a large profit. Of the ninety-seven acres, almost thirty-two million acres were being cultivated. As the farmers ran out of space to farm, caring only about profit, they started plowing grasslands that

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    Dust Bowl Research Paper

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    What was the Dust Bowl? The dust bowl was a time of drought, dust, and misfortune. At first it was only a drought that forced farmers to come up with new ways to grow their crops with a limited selection to choose from and later it transformed into storms of dust (Carnes and Garraty 581). The dust bowl brought a lot of damage to farmers’ fields. It was brought on by the improper use of farming techniques and the long-standing drought (Carnes and Garraty 581). There was a downpour of showers and high

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    One of the biggest disasters in The United States modern history was the dust bowl which took place in the 1930’s. This whole ordeal was greatly heightened by the human interaction with the land, which left soil conditions perfect for these large dust storms. The dust bowl has taught people all around the world the seriousness of resource depletion and reminds us to take better care of our environment. Water shortage is an example of one place we could be more aware and conscious.We need to react

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    Between the 1930s and 1940s, the southwestern Great Plains region of America suffered a severe environmental disaster known as the Dust Bowl, that resulted from the combination of a huge water shortage and harsh farming techniques. The drought-stricken plains experienced relentless dust storms that swept through Texas to Nebraska, killing crops, livestock and people. The Dust Bowl further intensified the devastating economical impacts of the Great Depression and drove hundreds of families to migrate in

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    The Dust Bowl was a devastating event occurring in the American midwest in 1935. Having more and more dust storms happening in the last couple of years, the Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday when the largest dust storm happened. On April 14, 1935, on the Plains of the United States and Canada. The soil in that area of the country is dry already and the fact that the soil had been severely overworked, caused the soil to lack nutrients, leading it to blow off the ground into these dust storms

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