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The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of poverty-stricken families, who were unable to pay mortgages or grow crops, to abandon their farms, and losses reached $25 million per day by 1936 (equivalent to $550 million in 2023).
Oct 27, 2009 · The Dust Bowl refers to the drought‑stricken southern plains of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Jul 21, 2024 · Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico. Dust Bowl: dust storm.
Nineteen states in the heartland of the United States became a vast dust bowl. With no chance of making a living, farm families abandoned their homes and land, fleeing westward to become migrant laborers.
Timeline: The Dust Bowl. For nearly a decade, drought gripped the Great Plains. Explore a timeline of events. Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees, Nov. 1935....
The worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, the 1930’s Dust Bowl destroyed farmlands in the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world.
Mar 19, 2004 · The eight-year drought that plagued the central U.S. in the 1930s, immortalized in The Grapes of Wrath, wracked the Great Plains with devastating dust storms and affected two thirds of this...
The Dust Bowl chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a...
Oct 19, 2023 · The Dust Bowl. Drought, wind, and poor farming practices created the Dust Bowl, but the economic disaster is caused led to much needed land-use reforms. Map by National Geographic Society. Credits. User Permissions. Map of area affected by the Dust Bowl.
Sep 14, 2023 · The Dust Bowl was arguably one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century. It degraded soil productivity, reduced air quality, and ravaged the local flora and fauna. The dust storms also caused dust pneumonia among residents who didn’t migrate.
