The Dust Bowl

1. Darby Esswein

2.  Also known as the “dirty thirties”
 Many farmers came to the
Midwestern and southern plains to
farm
 They used new techniques to farm
over 5 million acres of previously
unfarmed land (plowing)

3.  Overproduction of wheat (the natural
drought-resistant grasses were
replaced with this)

4.  Loss of fertile topsoil that literally
blew away in the wind (that was the
dust)

5.  Drought

6.  The farms could no longer be farmed
due to drought and unfertile land

7.  Dust and dirt covered everything

8.  Contributed to the Great Depression
 Left people homeless and in debt
 Many moved back to cities in search
of jobs

9.  The area in the U.S. that the Dust Bowl
was in