Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, as the majority of the people know it, was a period of time in the great plains, during the 1930’s, where some of the most severe sand storms known took place. The dust bowl lasted for about a decade and it affected New Mexico, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado. The Dust bowl lasted from 1931 to 1939. When the Drought hit the great plains, around one third of the farmers left. The dust storms caused many problems for many people, but especially the farmers that depended on the success of

The Dust Bowl “The air is just full of dirt coming, literally, for hundreds of miles. It shifts into everything…” - A quote from the diary of Ann Marie Low describing the powerful dust storms that she experienced firsthand on her parents’ farm in the Great Plains. During the 1930s, the southern regions of the Great Plains became known as the Dust Bowl due to the severe droughts and dust storms that plagued this region experienced. Part of this occurrence can be attributed to the farmers because

Lucia Martinez Professor Kim Wombles English 1302 September 21, 2015 The Dust Bowl Imagine a great wall closing in on you with nowhere to run. Imagine sweeping a floor of sand that will never go away. Imagine having a terrible cough that leaves your throat irritated and raw to the point where you are coughing up blood. Imagine the disappointment of realizing a possible rain cloud is really a wall of dust rushing your way. For people living in the Midwest during the 1930s this was

1900’s a lot of devastating events occurred that led to the Dust Bowl. Some of these events were the stock market crash and the Great Depression. Specifically, the 1930’s was a period that held very severe dust storms. The dust storms remained extremely critical for about 6 years; this period of time became known as The Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl had tremendously negative effects on both the people in the region and the land in which the dust storms were located. Some of the major effects were crops

Imagine humongous rolling storms of dust attacking you, blinding your eyes and blowing you off your feet. Gusts of winds in the sky that is blacker than night. Think of endless amounts of dust in your food, drinks, and homes. Insects infested in the walls of your house, crawling under rugs. Visualize people coughing clouds of dust from their lungs. Imagine being in school and hiding under the benches to avoid the incoming storm. Darkness and dust making you dizzy; destruction of your land and the

hardly quintessential. A notable provoker for this adversity was the dust storm known as the “Dust Bowl”, that lasted until about 1940. The Dust Bowl had consequences all over the United States. Besides causing the largest migration in American history when people began fleeing the midwest, it lead to the deaths of thousands of people and prompted soil conservation campaigns that called forth on the federal government. The Dust Bowl was an entirely avoidable tragedy rooted in greed and ignorance where

Kansas resident Imogene Glover remembers the Dust Bowl this way: The farmhouses looked terrible - the dust was deposited clear up to the window sills in these farmhouses, clear up to the window sills. And even about half of the front door was blocked by this sand. And if people inside wanted to get out, they had to climb out through the window to get out with a shovel to shovel out the front door. And, ah, there was no longer any yard at all there, not a green sprig, not a living thing of any

The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States which suffered severe dry storms during a period in the 1930s. The Dust Bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the Great Depression and drove many farming families on a desperate migration in search of work and better living conditions (History.com). Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion

What was the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl was the worst manmade ecological disaster in U.S. history. What was to worst thing to come out of it? What did people do to avoid it? We will return to the 1930’s to re-live to destruction of the Dust Bowl. What made the Dust Bowl really bad? The Dust Bowl caused many problems for people of the South. “The dust killed livestock and children alike” (Burns). What made this already bad situation worse was “Boise City was the place where the dust storms were the

The Dust Bowl If people work for a living, then why do they work to death? In the 1930s, people worked themselves to death thinking that they were making a living off of it. In the end, however, those people lost everything they ever had. The Dust Bowl had a negative effect on agriculture, health, and migration during The Great Depression that affected people in horrible ways. The Dust Bowl had a negative effect on agriculture during The Great Depression that affected people in horrible ways. “The