Both resulted in an increase of westward migration.
Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl
Lowering the land.
Unwanted additions to the ranks of the unemployed . . . I think.
Not even close. The dust bowl had nothing to do with tornadoes. The dust bowl was a period of severe drought in the central U.S. in the 1930s.
1930s.
Dust bowl
The dust bowl drought of the 1930s was a natural disaster which resulted in some three million people walking off their farms in the Great Plains. The ploughing of the natural vegetation of the grasslands, and the planting of wheat which could not survive the drought, resulted in the exposure of tonnes of bare earth, which in turn gave rise to continuous dust storms.
The major environmental crisis of the 1930s in the US was the Dust Bowl, an extended drought in the US southwest that resulted in substantial wind erosion of farm land and in severe dust storms, some of which reached as far as the US east coast.
The dirty thirties
Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl
Kansas
Lowering the land.
Lowering the land.
Lowering the land.
Most livestock died of starvation during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.