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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Causes of the Dust Bowl. Millions of acres of farmland tilled during 1920s from North Dakota to Texas One-crop farming exhausted the land Drought in the 1930s Winds picked up Little grass and few trees were left to hold the soil down.

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The Dust Bowl

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  1. The Dust Bowl

  2. Causes of the Dust Bowl • Millions of acres of farmland tilled during 1920s from North Dakota to Texas • One-crop farming exhausted the land • Drought in the 1930s • Winds picked up • Little grass and few trees were left to hold the soil down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2CiDaUYr90

  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TH_4lL_DjE Dust Storm I remember a day at noontime, standing with my dad in what seemed like a dim twilight or an eclipse of the sun. They sky was choked with dust driven toward the east by a howling wind. “There goes Kansas,” Dad said. Page 38 & 46

  4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_nG9LX0Ioo

  5. Effects of Dust Bowl • Nearly impossible to farm successfully • Can’t pay bills • Many farmers faced with foreclosure • Families become migrants

  6. “Okies” – Migrants from Oklahoma

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYFJmm0aK-8 Grapes of Wrath

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