How Did The Dust Bowl Affect People

The Dust Bowl hurt many different people in many. And in many different ways negatively affected people who lived there in a personal way. By over its time that it occurred affected many things living or nonliving, many people had to flee because of the Dust Bowls destruction, the Dust Bowl occurred for many reasons, most all our fault and Because of all of what the Dust did to the people it affected them a lot.

The Dust Bowl over its time that it occurred affected many things living or nonliving.

The dust bowl over all of the time it had lasted affected over 100,00,000 acres of land!("Dust Bowl Facts")This is very important because that means that it had a very negative effect on people's crops so some of them starve to death and this

probably tore up lots of people's homes as well. Because of this harsh living environment some people even went far enough to kill themselves.(Science notebook) This then left their family’s probably losing hope and to make things even worse family members were committing suicide. “It is estimated that approximately two million people became homeless because of the Dust Bowl and the damage it did to their farms.("17 interesting facts about the Dust Bowl")”When many of these people became homeless it probably also meant more thieves trying to take from others so they could get their families back in shape.“Recurrent dust storms wreaked havoc, choking cattle and pasture lands and driving 60 percent of the population from the region.” ("Dust Bowl Facts") This could be very hard on some people for example if they had close relationships with their animals this could have very badly hurt them because of their deaths. “Most students were sent home from school, lest they develop “dust pneumonia.” (7000 people lost their lives to this affliction.) In other cases, students stayed overnight at school when dust storms made conditions too dangerous to travel.”("17 interesting facts about the Dust Bowl")This would negatively impact the parents because then they would not be able to see their children for some long periods of time.The Farmers not only watched their property blow away, but their jobs also disappeared as well. There was little left to do but pack up for the promised land.(Science notebook) The farmers not only watched all of their thing blow away but when they lost all of their crops they also lost money and then lead to not being able to feed their families or livestock.
Many people had to flee because of the Dust Bowls destruction.This also lead to 2.5 million people leaving their homes and towns because of this.(Science notebook) This meant that they would have to leave lots of belonging behind and even possibly family too.“More than 300,000 people moved to California during the Dust Bowl to start over because of the damage to land caused by the Dust Bowl.”("Dust Bowl Facts") This is bad for many people personally in California and the people that moved because then that meant that lots of people in California were losing their jobs because lots of new people were moving in and taking all of their jobs and land.

And also the people moving had to spend lots of money on the move and some people probably died as well.

The Dust Bowl occurred for many reasons, most all our fault. “Some of the reasons that the Dust Bowl occurred were over-farming, livestock overgrazing, drought and poor farming practices.” (Dust Bowl facts and summary) Because of this negative experience it now teached us to be careful and now we know what to do to prevent this.“When drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor.”("Dust Bowl Facts and summary") That's really bad for the farmers because then the wind can easily pick up the dirt off the

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Because of all of what the Dust did to the people it affected them a lot. “Most of these “exodusters” went to agricultural areas first and then to cities, especially in the Far West.”("Dust Bowl Facts and summary")This affected many families in the far west and even if whole families didn’t live there some of someones family might and then they might die before the other half could see them and they might not even know about it. “The average 1930s dust storm carried more dirt than it would take to build the Panama Canal's.” ("17 interesting facts about the Dust Bowl") That would be extremely bad to breathe in because of all the dirt entering your lungs causing to choke you to death.
In conclusion, in many different ways this horrible disaster affected many people who lived near all of this extremely negatively.