2. What is the Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl was a time of terrible dust storms that
ruined the farm land in western and mid-western
United States.
It took place during the 1930s and added on to the
suffering during the Great Depression.
3. What Caused the Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl was a time when high winds carried
large amounts of dust through the Southern Plains of
US.
The main cause of the Dust Bowl was the terrible
farming practices, which led to them getting rid of
much of the grass in the prairie lands. In order to
plant the wheat for their farms, farmers plowed and
dug up all the land leaving no grass to stop the dust
from blowing when they had the high winds.
4. What Caused the Dust Bowl?
There was a drought during this time, meaning
there was little to no rainfall. This meant that no
grass nor crops would grow leaving only dust.
5. Areas Affected By the Dust Bowl
The areas that were affected were known as the
Southern Plains.
Those states included:
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and
Kansas.
6. What were the effects of the Dust Bowl?
Many families were left very poor as the dust
storms lasted for years and they were unable to
grow crops to sell.
Then these families ended up leaving their
families and traveling further west to look for
work.
Over 2 million families moved west to find work.
7. What were the effects of the Dust Bowl?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt started
programs to help with soil conservation using
his New Deal Programs.
He had the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
plant trees from Canada to Texas to help stop
the winds and keep the soil in place so it
wouldn’t blow away with the high winds.
