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What do you think is the biggest environmental problem facing our world today?. Bell Ringer. The Dust Bowl. The Disaster of Dust. Since the Homestead Act of 1862, famers of the Plains had fought against nature – droughts, infestations, wildfires, etc.

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Bell Ringer

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  1. What do you think is the biggest environmental problem facing our world today? Bell Ringer

  2. The Dust Bowl The Disaster of Dust

  3. Since the Homestead Act of 1862, famers of the Plains had fought against nature – droughts, infestations, wildfires, etc. They had planted seas of wheat using dry farming techniques that were meant to help deal with the lack of moisture. It actually sucked the top layer of soil dry and left it a fine layer of dust. A severe drought that began in 1932 left neither grass nor wheat to hold the rainfall, and left the dust to blow across the plains. Dealing with mistakes of the past

  4. The Dust Bowl covered the states of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas, with winds blowing the dust as far as Washington D.C. • Massive dust storms choked the remaining vegetation and blocked out the sun. • Storms could dump as much as four feet of dust in a matter of hours The Dust Bowl

  5. April 14, 1935 – A “black blizzard” hit Oklahoma and Texas displacing 300 million tons of topsoil from the surrounding prairie. The storm blotted out the sun and left visibility to about a meter. Black Sunday

  6. With their land barren and homes seized in foreclosure, many farm families were forced to leave Thousands of people migrated to the rich farmlands of California Although they came from various states, these migrants were disparagingly called “Okies” Leaving the Dust Bowl

  7. Faces of the Okie Migration

  8. Dorothea Lange – an influential photographer who captured the desperation of the Great Depression and the plight of Dust Bowl migrants. Migrant Mother (1936) - "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.“ These photographs put a face to the impoverished migrant farm workers escaping the Dust Bowl, encouraging FDR to focus more relief efforts on those affected by the natural disaster. Faces of the Okie Migration

  9. California’s Anti-Okie Law • John Steinbeck – His books were greatly influenced by the Depression, as well as the migration of the Plains farmers • Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath • Folk singer Woody Guthrie gained fame with songs about the plight of Dust Bowl refugees – Ain’t Got No Home, Hobo’s Lullaby, This Land Is Your Land Effects of the Great Depression and the Okie migration

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