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The photograph above presents a scene from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Which factor was a major cause of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains?
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Which book describes how the Dust Bowl of the 1930s affected farmers of the Great Plains?
The Grapes of Wrath
What was the name given to the area of the southern great plains severely damaged by droughtsdust stroms and misuse of the landby farmers during the 1930s?
That was the Dust Bowl.
What ecologically devastated area of the country became known as the Dust Bowl?
The Great Plains were the area affected by the loss of agricultural land in the 1930s.
How did environmental changes in the great plains lead to changes in America?
The "Dust Bowl" was the loss of farmland to drought and erosion in the 1930s. Many farmers left the Great Plains during the height of the Great Depression (1934-1936) and migrated to other areas, especially California, where some found work as migrant laborers.
What are the effects of the dust bowl migration?
The mass migration to California was spurred by a natural disaster. In the mid-1930s a severe drought stuck the Great Plains. Winds picked up the topsoil that had loosened and dried, turning 50-million-acre region into a wasteland.
What ecological factor made agriculture diffcult on the great plains in the 1930s?
Insufficient Rainfall
What human activity contributed to the dust storms in the great plains in the 1930s?
Dry land farming and overgrazing contributed to the dust storms in the Great Plains in the 1930s.
What is the loss of soil on south great plains in 1930s called?
The Great Dust Bowl
How did many Americans try to escape the dust bowl in the 1930s?
They moved from the great plains
Which book describes how the Dust Bowl of the 1930s affected farmers of the Great Plains?
The Grapes of Wrath
How did many Americans try to escape the 'Dust Bowl' in the 1930s?
they moved from the great plains
In the 1930s which geographic factor most influenced the westward migration of thousands of people from the southern great plains?
The Dust Bowl, the immense amount of dirt caused such a poor life style many americans moved west to california.
What name was given to the plains farmers and others who migrated west during the 1930s?
They were called Sodbusters. In the open Plains they lacked trees so they used sod to build their homes
Why were so many Americans living in the Great Plains forced to migrate west during the 1930s?
Drought and massive dust storms worsened economic conditions in the Great Plains.
Which of these economic effects did the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s have on America?
The farmers in the great plains crops failed and they went banked rupt
What ecological devastation area of the country became known as the dust bowl?
The Great Plains were the area affected by the loss of agricultural land in the 1930s.
What was the name given to the area of the southern great plains severely damaged by droughtsdust stroms and misuse of the landby farmers during the 1930s?
That was the Dust Bowl.
