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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was a period of severe dust storms and drought in the central United States. It mostly affected the southern Great Plains, with dust storms and drought exacerbating the Great Depression. Over 100 million acres of land were affected, forcing many farmers to abandon their land. Many migrated west to California seeking work, becoming known as "Okies." The Dust Bowl had long-term impacts - counties that experienced high levels of erosion saw declines in agricultural land values of over 25% that were still not fully recovered decades later. Artists like photographers and musicians documented the Dust Bowl, helping publicize the crisis through iconic images like Dorothea Lange's "Destitute Pea Pickers."
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s negatively impacted people's health and the economy in the Great Plains region of the United States. Prolonged drought combined with poor agricultural practices like over-plowing destroyed the natural grasses that held the soil in place. This led to massive dust storms that spread millions of tons of topsoil across the country. The Dust Bowl ruined farms, caused illnesses in children, and forced many families to abandon their homes in search of work.
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s resulted from years of drought that dried out soil in the Central Plains states, making it susceptible to wind erosion. Farmers had depleted the soil by overplanting wheat, and the drought caused massive dust storms that engulfed the region. Over 250,000 people were forced to migrate west to California in search of work to escape the Dust Bowl conditions of failing farms, dust pneumonia, and poverty. Authors like John Steinbeck documented the extreme hardships faced by migrants.
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The Great Depression brought widespread hardship including homelessness, hunger, and unemployment across the United States. Millions lost their jobs and homes, resulting in makeshift shanty towns popping up in urban areas. Rural farmers faced difficulties too, with thousands losing their land between 1929-1932. The Dust Bowl drought in the 1930s exacerbated issues, destroying farms across the Great Plains and displacing many farmers who migrated west. Conditions were especially difficult for minorities, with increased violence against African Americans and Mexican Americans encouraged to leave.
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Compare and contrast the struggles of farmers in those two states with that of farmers in Texas. How did they survive the Dustbowl? What was its impact on their communities?
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was caused by failure to use sustainable dryland farming practices, which led to severe dust storms and the loss of farmland across Kansas, Oklahoma, and other central states. Black Sunday in 1935 saw the worst dust storm that reached 4 miles high and traveled thousands of miles, destroying everything in its path. As drought continued and dust storms ruined crops, many farmers lost their homes and livelihoods. They migrated west along Route 66 to California seeking work, but found poor living conditions and high prices with few employment opportunities due to the Great Depression.
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Dust in the Wind: Dorothea Lange in the Imperial Valley
During the 1930s, severe drought and farming practices caused massive dust storms in the Midwest that destroyed farmland. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and migrated west to California seeking work. When they arrived, conditions were poor as there was little work and low wages in agriculture. Photographer Dorothea Lange documented the "human erosion" of these Dust Bowl refugees through images of their difficult lives living in migrant labor camps in California's Imperial Valley that lacked basic facilities. Though the region seemed like an ideal destination, the reality of industrialized agriculture differed greatly from the small family farms the migrants were accustomed to.
The Dust Bowl Summary
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. Prolonged drought coupled with poor farming practices stripped the region of natural vegetation, leaving the topsoil vulnerable to wind erosion. Massive dust storms would darken the sky for days, causing respiratory issues for those caught in the storms. The Dust Bowl forced many farmers and their families to abandon their homes and migrate west in search of work.
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that occurred in the 1930s in the Great Plains region of the United States. Poor farming practices combined with drought conditions and high winds to create massive dust storms that killed people and livestock, destroyed crops, and drove over 500,000 Americans from their homes. The Dust Bowl intensified the economic hardships of the Great Depression and caused many farming families to migrate in search of work. While such extreme drought conditions may naturally occur only once a century, the rising levels of greenhouse gases increase the likelihood of future periods like the Dust Bowl.
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The document discusses the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. It describes how a decade-long drought combined with poor farming practices, including overgrazing and plowing of too much land, left the topsoil vulnerable to being blown away by high winds. This led to massive dust storms that caused millions of tons of topsoil to blow eastward, devastating crops and forcing many farmers to abandon their homes and migrate west in search of work. The Dust Bowl affected the Great Plains states and was both an ecological and human disaster.
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The document discusses the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. It describes how a decade-long drought combined with poor farming practices, including overgrazing and plowing of too much land, left the topsoil vulnerable to being blown away by high winds. This led to massive dust storms that caused millions of tons of topsoil to blow eastward, devastating crops and forcing many farmers to abandon their homes and migrate west in search of work. The human and environmental impacts of the Dust Bowl were severe and long-lasting.
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During WWI, farmers in the central plains expanded wheat production which led them to plow under native grasses, weakening the soil. A drought in the 1930s caused the loose soil to dry out and blow away in massive dust storms, known as the Dust Bowl. The dust storms destroyed crops and livestock, forcing many farmers to abandon their land and migrate west along Route 66 to California in search of work, as depicted in The Grapes of Wrath. The New Deal created programs like crop rotation and shelter belts to stabilize the soil and prevent further dust storms.
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The document summarizes the key events of the Great Depression in the United States beginning in 1929. It describes how agricultural and industrial problems in the late 1920s led to a stock market crash in October 1929. This crash signaled the beginning of the Great Depression, a period from 1929 to 1940 when the economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed to 25%. As a result of the crash and ensuing Depression, banks collapsed, homelessness increased, and soup kitchens and makeshift shantytowns appeared across the country as millions lost their jobs and homes. Hardest hit were farmers in the Midwest who faced the additional crisis of the Dust Bowl drought.
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The document summarizes the economic and environmental factors that led to the Dust Bowl crisis in the Great Plains region in the 1930s. Years of overproduction and falling crop prices in the 1920s put many farmers into debt. Increased mechanization and easy credit encouraged expanding cultivation, leaving the soil vulnerable when drought struck in the 1930s. Without grass roots to hold it, topsoil was blown away in massive dust storms, forcing many farmers to abandon their land. Over 2.5 million people left the affected areas during this period, with many migrating to California in search of work. Photos illustrate the scale of dust storms and hardship faced by families during this period of crisis.
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The document summarizes the events of the Great Depression in the United States from the late 1920s through 1932. It describes how various sectors of the economy like agriculture, manufacturing, and housing struggled in the late 1920s. It then details the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing financial crisis that plunged the US into the Great Depression. Unemployment rose sharply as businesses closed and GDP declined significantly over these years. President Hoover initially took a hands-off approach but eventually implemented some measures, though they came too late to stop the economic freefall. His handling of the Bonus Army protests in 1932 further damaged his public image ahead of the 1932 election.
A c 14 us chapter 14
The document summarizes the events of the Great Depression in the United States from the late 1920s through 1932. It describes how various sectors of the economy like agriculture, manufacturing, and housing struggled in the late 1920s. It then details the stock market crash of 1929 and how it accelerated the onset of the Great Depression. Unemployment skyrocketed and GDP fell sharply as people lost jobs, homes, businesses failed, and shantytowns emerged. President Hoover initially took a hands-off approach but eventually intervened through new agencies though it was too late to stop the economic collapse. His handling of the Bonus Army further damaged his public image going into the 1932 election.
A c 14 us chapter 14
The document summarizes the events of the Great Depression in the United States from the late 1920s through 1932. It describes how various sectors of the economy like agriculture, manufacturing, and housing struggled in the late 1920s. It then details the stock market crash of 1929 and how it accelerated the onset of the Great Depression, characterized by plummeting GDP, widespread business failures, and unemployment rising to 25%. President Hoover initially took a hands-off approach but eventually implemented some relief programs, though it was too little too late to reverse the economic downturn. His handling of the Bonus Army further damaged his public image ahead of the 1932 election.
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The document summarizes the key events and impacts of the Great Depression that began with the stock market crash of 1929. It describes how various sectors of the US economy such as agriculture, consumer spending and the wealth gap were struggling in the late 1920s. The stock market crash in October 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression, as stock prices plummeted and banks collapsed in its aftermath. Unemployment rose dramatically to 25% by 1933 as GDP fell nearly 50%. Worldwide, many countries were severely impacted due to economic interdependence and the dust bowl exacerbated problems in North America. The Depression ended during World War 2 as US factories received orders to support the war effort.
Impact of drought on economy of a country
The document discusses drought in several contexts:
1) It defines drought and describes three main types: meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural.
2) It outlines the consequences of drought including environmental, economic, and social impacts such as famine, habitat damage, and conflict over resources.
3) Several examples of historical droughts are provided, including those that affected ancient Egypt, the Maya civilization, the 1930s Dust Bowl in the US, and droughts in China and the Northern Great Plains in the 1980s-90s.
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Dust in the Wind: Dorothea Lange in the Imperial Valley
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The Dust Bowl
- 1. The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl
- 2. General info • The Dustbowl mostly affected the southern areas of America yet the drought and dust storms. • Agricultural decline helped to lengthen The Great Depression. • Was also known the dirty thirties. • The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres that centred on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and touched adjacent sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. • The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms. • Many families, who were often known as "Okies" because so many of them came from Oklahoma, migrated to California and other states.
- 3. Long-Term Aspects By 1940, counties that had experienced the most significant levels of erosion saw a greater decline in agricultural land values. The per-acre value of farmland declined by 28% in high-erosion counties and 17% in medium-erosion counties, relative to land value changes in low-erosion counties. Even over the long-term, the full agricultural value of the land often failed to recover. In highly eroded areas, less than 25% of the original agricultural losses were recovered. The economy adjusted predominantly through large relative population declines in more-eroded counties, both during the 1930s and through the 1950s.
- 4. Music and Arts The crisis was documented by photographers, musicians, and authors. Many were hired by various U.S. federal agencies during the Great Depression. The Farm Security Administration hired numerous photographers to document the crisis. This helped the careers of many artists, including Dorothea Lange. She captured iconic images of the storms and migrant families, the most famous of which was a photograph entitled Destitute Pea Pickers in California. Mother of Seven Children., which depicted a gauntlooking woman, Florence Owens Thompson, holding three of her children. This picture captured the horrors of the Dust Bowl and caused more people to be aware of the crisis of the country.