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- Strong winds caused dust clouds called "Black Blizzards" or "Black Rollers"
- Decade is nicknamed the "dirty thirties" due in part to dust bowl storms
- 100 million acres were affected
- Great volumes of soil were carried across the continent and deposited in the Atlantic Ocean
- Approximately 300,000 people from Oklahoma migrated because of the storms
- More than 500,000 people lost their homes in the storms
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The Dust Bowl refers to a series of dust storms that lasted for most of the 1930s on the American and Canadian prairies. The storms caused devastating agricultural damage and severe economic problems. On April 14, 1935, also known as "Black Sunday," twenty severe dust storms blew across the plains to literally block out the sun.
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The Cause
During the early 20th century, large numbers of settlers colonized the North American plains and set up farms. The native grasses, which held the soil together and helped to retain its moisture were removed to make room for crops. The native grasses naturally prevented erosion, but after they were removed, a period of drought turned the topsoil to dust, which was easily blown away by the strong prairie winds. -
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Dust Bowl on Amazon
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Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp - $9.95
Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took placeat the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes ofWrath. O...Amazon
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American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl - $19.95
In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains--the pan...Amazon
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - $14.95
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.Timothy Egan’s critically acclaim...Amazon
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s - $18.95
In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years...Amazon
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Dust Bowl Questions
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"Congress created DUST BOWL" What the heck does that mean? 1 AnswerActually they are referring to the fact that Congress has put a 2″ fish that was imported to California on the Federal Endagered List. Because of this fish ther... read more -
What are the similarities between Dust Bowl poverty of the 1940s and modern day Ethiopia? 1 AnswerSimilarities of the Dust Bowl poverty and modern day Ethiopia are 1.Severe drought 2.Citizens face famine due to the the drought 3.Critical water shortages ... read more -
How are big are the dust storms in north-western China? 1 AnswerDust Storms over China coming from the Northwestern Gobi desert are big enough as to cover the entire eastern part of the country, the Yellow Sea and all the wa... read more
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Could the Dust Storms of the 1940s happen again in the US? 1 AnswerThe prospect is more unlikely due to improved irrigation methods and Crop rotation which would keep the top soil from being eroded to the point that it would si... read more
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Dust Bowl Timeline
- 1931: "Black Blizzards" begin
- 1932: Fourteen reported storms
- 1933: Congress adopts the Emergency Banking Act of 1933
- 1933: The Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act is approved
- 1935: Worst "Black Blizzard" occurs on April 14th, a day that becomes known as "Black Sunday"
- 1937: President Roosevelt states, "I See One-Third of The Nation Ill-housed, Ill-clad and Ill-nourished"
- 1938: Extensive work begins to re-plow and replant shelterbelts
- 1939: Rain brings an end to the severe drought
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phew ok the dust bowl has been throw off for a little while, but the dry spell still needs snapping.
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Keep in mind Great Dust Bowl product of the people believing gov't lies buying land in drought prone area to farm! Gov't GREED Kills!
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http://twitpic.com/s8gi2 - Dust bowl to mudhole overnight over 4" since Thurs and rapidly approaching 5" when we only needed about 1"
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06:11 Mumford & Sons - Dust Bowl Dance
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