what was a dust bowl
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dust bowl depression Tons of topsoil were blown off barren fields and carried in storm clouds for hundreds of miles. Technically, the driest region of the Plains  southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas  became known as the Dust Bowl, and many dust storms started there. But the entire region, and eventually the entire country, was affected.
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- The Dust Bowl, also known as “the Dirty Thirties,” lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lasted much longer. Severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931.
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Paper #1 Federal Governments Role in the Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was a period of unyielding dust storms which inevitably caused major agricultural, ecological and irreversible damage to the American and Canadian prairie lands. The Dust Bowl lasted from 1930 to 1936, in some areas the drought lasted until 1940. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was mostly a man-made disaster.
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Dust pneumonia A Dust Bowl-era dust storm in Texas (1935). Dust pneumonia describes disorders caused by excessive exposure to dust storms, particularly during the Dust Bowl in the United States. Dust Bowl-era dust storm in Texas (1935). Dust pneumonia describes disorders caused by excessive exposure to dust storms, particularly during the Dust Bowl in the United States.
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Dust Bowl Facts ~ Great Depression Dust Bowl Facts ~ Great Depression. Here are some interesting facts about the Dust Bowl: •In 1932, there were 14 dust storms recorded on the Plains (an area that included the panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas, southwest Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and Nebraska). In 1933, there were 38 dust storms. •By 1934, because of years of repeated dust storms, approximately 100 million acres of farmland no longer had enough topsoil to grow crops. •In April 1935, an Associated Press reporter used the term “dust bowl” to describe the conditions, and the term soon became popular.
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- On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl. 1  1 Earth Sciences Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.  2 Science Applications International Corporation, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA.
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- Liberal, Kansas, 14 April 1935. The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the Twentieth Century anywhere in the world. Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states, almost all to the West. But the Dust Bowl drought was not meteorologically extreme by the standards of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Indeed the 1856-65 drought may have involved a more severe drop in precipitation. It was the combination of drought and poor land use practice that created the environmental disaster.
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Dust Bowl The fine soil of the Great Plains was easily eroded and carried east by strong continental winds. On November 11, 1933, a very strong dust storm stripped topsoil from desiccated South Dakota farmlands in just one of a series of severe dust storms that year. Beginning on May 9, 1934, a strong, two-day dust storm removed massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst such storms of the Dust Bowl. The dust clouds blew all the way to Chicago, where they deposited 12 million pounds of dust.
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The Great Depression In the rural area outside Boise City, Oklahoma, the population dropped 40% with 1,642 small farmers and their families pulling up stakes. The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California. When they reached the border, they did not receive a warm welcome as described in this 1935 excerpt from Collier’s magazine.
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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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History of the Dust Bowl An eight-year drought started in 1931 with hotter than usual temperatures. Winter’s prevailing winds took their toll on the cleared terrain, unprotected by indigenous grasses that once grew there. The Dust Bowl intensified the wrath of the Great Depression.
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10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowl Much like miners, Dust Bowl residents exhibited signs of silicosis from breathing in the extremely fine silt particulates, which had high silica content. Dust pneumonia, called the “brown plague,” killed hundreds and was particularly lethal for infants, children and the elderly. Many, but not all, of the Dust Bowl refugees hailed from Oklahoma.
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- Directed by Ken Burns (for PBS), and narrated by Peter Coyote, The Dust Bowl is a fascinating step back in time to an awesome occurrence that we can only hope will never have a chance, ever again, to repeat itself. 1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Worst Environmental Disaster in the United States? At its worst, the Dust Bowl covered about 100 million acres in the Southern Plains, an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania. Dust storms also swept across the northern prairies of the United States and Canada, but the damage there couldn't compare to the devastation farther south.
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Drought Relief Service In the settlement, the union was recognized by growers, and workers were given a 25 percent raise. 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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The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl refers to a place and time during the 1930s, when countless farms in the United States and Canada were destroyed due to drought and dust storms.The events of this period affected the lives of millions, putting a permanent stamp on the American consciousness.he Dust Bowl primarily affected the American Great Plains region, most notably the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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- They did not indicate tuberculosis or anything else than just dust, mementos of the dust bowl years. Another dust-caused ailment of the period was ruptured appendixes. Country doctors who encountered a rash of them, were unable to perform even kitchen-table surgery while the dust blew, but without sophisticated help developed their own, drastic, simple procedures for coping.
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- Effects of the Dust Bowl. Image 2: Oklahoma Family Heading to California. Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection LC-USF34-000963-E. Famers and landholders in the Great Plains had to migrate in the 1930s during a period of drought, irregular rain, and erosion.
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The Dust Bowl By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Dust Bowl states toward the Pacific states. In the fall of 1934, with cattle feed depleted, the government began to buy and destroy thousands of starving livestock. Of all the government programs during that time, the cattle slaughter was the most wrenching for farmers.
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How did the dust bowl affect the southern plains? The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. The dust bowl winds began in 1932 but the Dust Bowl got its name from the horrendous winds beginning in 1935. The primary are … a it effected was the southern Plains.
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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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Lifestyle During the 1930s Families also migrated to other areas of the country in search of work. A combination of drought, dust storms, low market prices for farm crops and a lack of soil conservation practices caused many farmers vacate their homes, leaving behind the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl included nearly all of the Midwest states.
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Dust Bowl 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.