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The dust bowl

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DUST BOWL

OR THE DIRTY 30'S
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An environmental disaster

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Between 1930 and 1940

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Great Plains

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Homestead Act

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More demand, more production

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THE DUST BOWL

  • Crop area expansion
  • Drought
  • The Depression
  • The way dry land wheat is cultivated (deep prowing)
  • Extermination of grassland
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Influences: John Steinbeck

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"And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless - restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do - to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut - anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land."

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Henrique Caldas