2. what happened
to The Dust
bowl
• The Dust Bowl was the name given to
the drought-stricken southern plains
region of the United States, which
suffered severe dust storms during a
drought in the 1930s. As high winds
and choking dust swept the region
from Texas to Nebraska, people and
livestock were killed and crops failed
across the entire region. The Dust Bowl
intensified the crushing economic
impacts of the Great Depression and
drove many farming families on a
desperate migration in search of work
and better living condition
3. What caused
the Dust Bowl
tragedy
• A combination of aggressive and
poor farming techniques, coupled
with drought conditions in the region
and high winds created massive dust
storms that drove thousands from
their homes and created a large
migrant population of poor, rural
Americans during the 1930s.
4. What happened to the
people in the Dust Bowl
• More than 500,000 Americans
were left homeless. More than
350 houses had to be torn down
after one storm alone. The severe
drought and dust storms had left
many homeless; others had their
mortgages foreclosed by banks, or
felt they had no choice but to
abandon their farms in search of
work.
5. Can the Dust
Bowl happen
again
• Such conditions could be expected to
occur naturally only rarely – about
once a century. But with rising
concentrations of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere, dust bowl
conditions are likely to become
much more frequent events
