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The Dust Bowl We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land.. Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat.
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Dust Bowl The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km2) that centered 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.
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- Another ailment of the dust bowl years was measles, epidemics springing up in communities throughout the dusty region. In Hastings alone in early February, 1935, when the spring storms were just beginning to get into full swing, one hundred homes were placarded, or isolated, because of the disease; more were added later.
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dust bowl depression The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not so badly effected, but nonetheless, the drought, windblown dust and agricultural decline were no strangers to the north. In fact the agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the Depression whose effects were felt worldwide.
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What Causes Dust? -- Susan Brainard, Tampa, FL. According to the dictionary, dust is created by airborne particles of fine, dry matter from the surface of the ground. It seems like you can never get rid of it, whether or not windows are open -- although closed windows can help to prevent pollen and other pollutants from entering.
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Dust Bowl Migration These images show the devastation that drove the Dust Bowl refugees to leave their homes and migrate to California. They also depict the lives of these families on the road west. Overview. In 1931, a severe drought hit the Southern and Midwestern plains. As crops died and winds picked up, dust storms began. As the Dust Bowl photograph shows, crops literally blew away in black blizzards as years of poor farming practices and over-cultivation combined with the lack of rain. By 1934, 75% of the United States was severely affected by this terrible drought.
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Great Depression and New Deal Test Between 1931 and 1940, so much soil blew out of the central and southern great plains that this region became known as the dust bowl. Made for horrible farming conditions What was the 21st amendment?
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What caused the Dust Bowl? The era became known as the legendary Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl brought ecological, economical and human misery to America during a time when it was already suffering under the Great Depression. While the economic decline caused by the Great Depression played a role, it was har­dly the only guilty party. What circumstances conspired to cause the Dust Bowl? Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion all contributed to making the Dust Bowl. Keep Reading Below ­The seeds of the Dust Bowl may have been sowed during the early 1920s.
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- To prevent blowing, these areas needed to be regrassed in the 30s. The soils in the Dust Bowl region have a characteristic known as “flocculation” which, like fish eggs, causes small soil particles to cling together in clusters. This in short, facilitates the movement of moisture to the subsoil.
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Dust Bowl Facts But with 25 percent unemployment at some points during the Great Depression, the chances of finding work were slim. During the Dust Bowl, some 200,000 migrants moved to California, most destitute and jobless. The former farmers and their families' presence simply added to cities' unemployment problems.
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What kind of diseases were spread during the dust bowl? During the Dust Bowl diseases like scurvy, rickets, dust pneumonia, valley fever, malnutrition, and other respiratory diseases were common. Also, some mental illnesses were depression, excessive stress, and anxiety.
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Dust Bowl Lesson Plan What were the hardest hit areas of the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl primarily affected the American Great Plains region, most notably the states of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. What caused the Dust Bowl? Most common was moving away to places such as California
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- Lutein and zeaxanthin, found together in many vegetables, are potent antioxidants. In humans, they occur in high concentrations in the eye, including the lens, retina, and macula. For that reason, lutein and zeaxanthin are thought to be crucial to healthy vision.
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The Dust Bowl One hundred million acres of the Southern Plains were turning into a wasteland of the Dust Bowl. Large sections of five states were affected  Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. In 1932, the national weather bureau reported 14 dust storms. The next year, they were up to 38. The dust was so thick that people scooped up bucketsful while cleaning house. Dust blocked exterior doors; to get outside, people had to climb out their windows and shovel the dust away.
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Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl drought was a natural disaster that severely affected much of the United States during the 1930s. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939-40, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.he Dust Bowl drought was a natural disaster that severely affected much of the United States during the 1930s. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939-40, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.
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The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl began in 1930 and lasted anywhere from five to ten years, depending on the area. The effects it had were profound, with social and environmental consequences that continued for decades afterwards.
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Drought Relief Service May: 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.
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How the Dust Bowl Environmental Disaster Impacted the US Economy More than two thirds were farmers. Total assistance was estimated at $1 billion in 1930s dollars. The report found that losses in the Dust Bowl affected the entire national economy. (Source: Economics of the Dust Bowl, National Drought Mitigation Center.) For more, see Effects of the Great Depression.
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How the Dust Bowl Environmental Disaster Impacted the US Economy Definition: The Dust Bowl is an environmental disaster that hit the Midwest in the 1930s. A combination of a severe water shortage and harsh farming techniques created it. Some scientists believe it was the worst drought in North America in 300 years. The lack of rain killed the crops that kept the soil in place.
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- (Dust storms have been previously discussed on this blog, and you can read more about the geological causes of dust storms here .) During the 1930’s, the dust storms (often called “dusters”, “black blizzards” or “sand blows”) hit very frequently for several years, an era now called the Dust Bowl (Worster 13-14).
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- And by 1939 the dust had settled and the years of depression and dust bowl seemed to be over. The people of Adams county could try to go back to living as they had earlier, before the black clouds of dust rolled in, the fields lay parched and cracked, the livestock dropped dead in the fields.
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- First we know from studies elsewhere in the world (e.g. the Sahel) that dust can impact circulation and precipitation. Second the Dust Bowl drought was unique in its spatial pattern - further north than is typical for a La Niña forced, or La Niña plus warm subtropical North Atlantic forced, drought.
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- This story is based upon a research article, On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl, recently published by Siegfried D. Schubert, Max J. Suarez, Philip J. Pegion , Randal D. Koster, and Julio T. Bacmeister in the March 19, 2004 edition of SCIENCE Magazine.
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- The Dust Bowl refers to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period 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.