I am doing this assigned blog on the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was a time period where the United States was hit strong dust storms. These Storms caused damage to American Agriculture. It was caused because of a severe drought and bad farming methods. The bad farming methods included no crop rotation, no fallow fields and no cover crops.
The Dust Bowl took place in the 1930s. The worst years were 1934 and 1936. Continually deep-plowing the topsoil of the Great Plains over the past decade had moved the natural deep-rooted grasses that usually kept the soil in place had trapped moisture down there even during the drought. During the long drought the soil dried and turned to dust and blew away with really strong winds.
The Dust Bowl took place in the 1930s also called the Dirty Thirties by some people. The Dust bowl affected over 100,000,000 acres of land. Right before the Great Depression/ Dust Bowl there was a wet time. The huge dust storms were called "Black Blizzards" or "Black Rollers".
Millions of acres of land were destroyed and unusable. Hundreds of thousands of families were forced to leave their homes because they couldn't make a living with the Dust Bowl. People migrated to states that had a better economical condition. The Dust Bowl took place during the Great Depression. This made the depression worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm
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