The Dust Bowl of the 1930 s

1. The Dust Bowl of the 1930�s By: Austin Matson, Refugio Ortega, HeiChung Auyeung, Vivian Chan

2. What is the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl is a drought that lasted for 8 years. It rained very little and it increased in heat. States in the Dust Bowl lost 60% of its population.

3. What happened in the Dust Bowl? Kansas and other states suffered from the dust bowl. Millions of tons of soil turn to dust because there were no grassy roots to hold it. A large area of agricultural settlement in the Great Plains were from the worst droughts that lasted for a decade.

4. Who was involved in the Dust Bowl? Children Women Farmers Americans Franklin D. Roosevelt Congress Tribes

5. Where was the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl is in the central part of the United States. The Dust Bowl was in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and it affected the other states North and South.

6. Why did the Dust Bowl occur The Dust Bowl occurred because of misuse of the land. Also because of poor agriculture practices and a severe drought for years.

7. 5 Key Facts The Dust bowl take place in the Great Plains in Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. Millions of people migrated from the Great Plains area, often heading west. Many farmers went broke and other abandoned their field(s) after the dust storm hit their region. In the 1930�s the drought covered virtually the entire plain fore almost a decade

8. How? The Dust bowl of 1930�s forced millions of people from the Great Plains area from their farm land. The peoples who got caught in the open during the storm their lungs got badly injured. While the Dust bowl was happening the dust destroyed farmers� fences, barns, and trackers.

9. Cause� Poor agriculture practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Misuse of land over the years of sustained droughts. Over the years there was a low annual rainfall and of light soils and is swept each spring by high winds.

10. �Effect High winds blow the dust off the ground and creates a sand storms destroying farms, homes, and other objects in the Great Plains area.

11. Primary source "...At other times a cloud is seen to be approaching from a distance of many miles. Already it has the banked appearance of a cumulus cloud, but it is black instead of white, and it hangs low, seeming to hug the earth. Instead of being slow to change its form, it appears to be rolling on itself from the crest downward. As it sweeps onward,

12. Primary Source 2 The landscape is progressively blotted out. Birds fly in terror before the storm, and only those that are strong of wing may escape. The smaller birds fly until they are exhausted, then fall to the ground, to share the fate of the thousands of jack rabbits which perish from suffocation."

13. TimeLine 1932 The number of dust storms is increasing. Fourteen are reported this year; next year there will be 38. 1934 Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. 1938 The extensive work re-plowing the land into furrows, planting trees in shelterbelts, and other conservation methods has resulted in a 65 percent reduction in the amount of soil blowing. However, the drought continued.