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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. U.S. History PHS 2012. Dust Bowl. An environmental disaster that hits the mid-west Lack of rain and high winds cause crops to fail Farmers lose everything and head for California. Causes of the Dust Bowl.

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The Dust Bowl

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  1. The Dust Bowl U.S. History PHS 2012

  2. Dust Bowl • An environmental disaster that hits the mid-west • Lack of rain and high winds cause crops to fail • Farmers lose everything and head for California

  3. Causes of the Dust Bowl • Drought- In the early 1930’s rain stopped fallingon the Great Plains. • Overproduction • Farmers exhausted the land through overproduction of crops • Grasslands – grass + no rain = desert

  4. Before the effects of overproduction, the grasses of the Great Plains naturally held the soil down during droughts and wind storms.

  5. Effects of the Dust Bowl • When the drought and winds began to blow in the early 1930’s, huge dust storms swept the area.

  6. The dust traveled hundreds of miles.

  7. Thousands of farmers left their land.

  8. Many people headed west to California, to work in the Central Valley.

  9. “Okies” were people from Oklahoma who migrated to California

  10. Effects of the Great Depression on Men • After years of unemployment • many men abandoned their families. • 300,000 hoboes wandered the country.

  11. Effects on Women • Women took care of the now fatherless family - canned food, sewed clothes, managed household budgets. • Married women were discriminated against for jobs. • Many suffered out of sight.

  12. Many worked outside of the home.

  13. Children Suffer Hardships • Malnutrition and diet-related diseases rise. • By 1933, 2,600 schools close. • Thousands of children go back to work in sweat shops.

  14. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers hop trains to search for work around the country. • “Zoot Suits” become a fashion craze. • Great Depression

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