Dust Bowl Disaster
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FACT 2
Mostly only the great plains got affected by the dust bowl
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THE FIRST STRIKE OF THE DUST BOWL WAS IN 1930
That dried up all the soil like the money in the Great Depression.
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SINCE THE FIELDS WERE LEFT BARE BECAUSE OF THE DROUGHT
Wind started picking up and took dust and debris and formed dark clouds.
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PEOPLE WHO WERE TRYING TO SURVIVE THE DUST STORM
Stuffed windows and doors with newspapers and wore rags over there mouths.
PERHAPS THE WORST DUST STORM DURING THE DUST BOWL WAS ON BLACK
sunday April 14, 1935. It rushed at 60 miles per hour and came with no warning.
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THE DUST STROMS WERE REALLY DARK
It was so dark a person couldn't see his or her hand!
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THE CAUSE OF THE DUST BOWL
- The farmers in England couldn't grow crops so they bought Americas goods.
- World war 1 had prevented European farmers to grow wheat.
- While the demand was high and the cost was a lot in England farmers plowed more feilds.
- Then since selling all of those goods they started to prosper.
- But since the farmers in America where plowing up more fields it caused 2 problems. ➡️
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THE PROBLEMS
- Since they were plowing to much fields wheat was so available⬇️
- That the prices began to drop and storage bins were full!
- The second problem is that plowing up grassland would cause⬇️
- The fields to dry up and start a drought. So the fields were left bare.
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FACT 10 THOUGH 13
- During the dust bowl a mysterious disease killed many people.
- Dust storms back then were called either dusters or black blizzards.
- In 1932 president Franklin Roosevelt was elected and started to⬇️
- Help the Great Depression and the dust bowl by making a lot of acts.
- (Like the Emergency Farm Act, Drought Relief Service, and Shelterbelt Project. )
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FACT 14
The Dust Bowl is also called in history the Dirty Thirties.
