Dust Bowl Research Paper

Duncan Scanlon Scanlon 1
Mrs. Clark
English 9
3 November 2014

Dust Bowl

During 1932-1938 after the Roaring 20’s and the Great Depression a series of major droughts occurred in central north america due to neglect and over farming of farm land. Right after a couple of these dust storms came through the US was in deep debt and economy trouble. The stock market had crashed and many people were very very poor so FDR put the Bank Act in place which was a four day bank holiday. By 1935 many struggling families headed west in search for new jobs, Many people headed to California to work on apple orchards,
and vineyards according to “Great Events, 1931-1939,

Vol. 3, p340.”
The Dust Bowl was a series of extreme dust storms caused by a major drought in the 1930’s.

After all of the storms a many cars, tractors houses barns, and buildings were abandoned because they were covered in dust and unable to be used. there were many major judgmental flaws that caused some epic changes in this disaster. One major error and epic change that no one was really aware of, was the fact that they over farmed so much. By over farming their land, it created so much dust. Also, some people had so much land and they did not take care of it. These people neglected their land and did not cultivate it enough, adding more dust to these terrible storms.

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There were a couple of consequences that were major in this terrible disaster, the first would have to be the fact that over 1,200 people caught a terrible influenza that was later coined as the term “Dust Fever”. Over 97,000,000 million acres of once fertile land was covered in more than 12 feet of dust so it could never be fertile again according to Peter Roop in “Cobblestone, Mar2012, Vol. 33 Issue 3,

p26”
Many people lost there precious jobs and had to head north and west to find work which mad a major population decrease in the south east after the Dust Bowl. In conclusion, many once fertile fields were turned to complete dust and buildings were sunken in dust FDR had started a US soil conservation service.
 The dust bowl came, the duet bowl left it took many lives as well as 90 million acres of land and buildings and homes. After all of what the dust bowl threw at America we still stood strong throughout all of that and got back up and just kept fighting through. Even through all of the neglect that the crops took and the dust storms that were formed by that dust not one had the power to bring down america. After that time a water conservation problem occurred that had to do with the underground irrigation water supply, this would mess up water supply for future needs.