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The Dust Bowl during the Great Depression was caused by poor farming practices and?
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Yes, in particular over-tilling, and not rotating crops…
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Why did people leave the great plains during the great depression?
Lack of rain and over tilling the land caused dust storms that caused the region to be almost unlivable. Look up The Great Dust Bowl For further information.
What farming practices made conditions right for a dust bowl situation?
This was caused by long periods of drought combined with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, leaving fallow fields (plowed but unseeded) and cover crops (crops to cover the fields to prevent erosion). Farmers plowed their fields heavily and lost the grasses and moisture that kept soil in place during droughts and high winds. The drought lasted 6 years (10 years in some places) causing starvaton and even death. The storms/drought affected hundreds of thousands of families and during the severe storms of 1934 hundreds of people in Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas had died from the heat.
How is dust bowl and Great Depression alike?
The dustbowl is a nickname for the Midwest during the great depression. I is one factor that causes the great depression because of the shortage of food.
What happened to great plain plains farmers during the depression?
the farmers lost work because the could not sell anything because of the great depression.
Which muscle acts as an antagonist to the geniohyoid during depression of mandible?
The masseter acts as the antagonist.
What 2 things were instrumental in causing many farms to fail during the onset of the great depression?
Overproduction is one thing that caused many farms to fail during the Great Depression. Another thing that caused them to fail was the concept of power farming, which was not needed.
What effect did the great depression have on minority groups such as Mexican and African-Americans?
discriminatory practices worsened during the great depression.
What effect did the great depression have on minority such as African Americans and Mexican Americans?
discriminatory practices worsened during the great depression.
What effect did the Great Depression have on minority groups such as Mexican and African Americans?
discriminatory practices worsened during the great depression.
What job was most common during the Great Depression?
Jobs at the docks or factories were the most common.
During the global depression war debts caused suffering in?
germany
During the global depression war debts caused great suffering in?
Germany
During the Great Depression some people worked as tenant farmers?
Farming land that was owned by someone else.
What are two benefits of farming practices that produce square watermelons?
Square watermelons save space during packing, storage, for one, and thus less fuel can be used during transporting them.
What did the Dust Bowl do to the US agricultural economy during the Great Depression?
the great depression was a sad time for all Americans. the dust bowl was just another problem and caused hunger in many cases. it also caused poverty.
What was profitable import produced by?
The most profitable import was produced by collective farming. Collective farming was a thriving business during the Great Depression era.
What was the major features of the new deal?
Giving relief to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and promoting recovery of the economy during The Great Depression
