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What was the result of drought and erosion in the Great Plains in the 1930s?
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Many farmers left the great plain because the dust bowl caused droughts and that was really bad for agriculture or farming
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Why was the settlement of the great plains slow to come with settlers passing it by for the west coast?
The great plains were considered to be a "desert" (to some extent this was confirmed when people later settled there in the 1920s and through improper erosion control farming practices followed by a several year drought, brought about the dust bowl during the 1930s).This land is actually very fertile, but only with modern irrigation and erosion control practices that were not available to the pioneers in the 1800s.
Was the decade of the 1930s called The Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. The dust bowl winds began in 1932 but the Dust Bowl got its name from the horrendous winds beginning in 1935. The primary area it effected was the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not hit so badly but the drought, the blowing dust, and the decline of agriculture in the region had a nationwide effect. The wind "turned day into night" and was so strong it picked up the topsoil on the ground and blew it away in large clouds of dust. The farmers who worked the Great Plains had been breaking up the sod and soil on the plain states since the time of the Homestead Act. Poor farming techniques and years of depleting the soil led to the soil becoming susceptible to the winds.
During the 1930s people migrated from the Midwest westward because of?
a severe drought
What was the main reason why people left the Great Plains during the Great Depression?
The main reason for people to leave the Great Plains during the Depression was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The dust bowl winds began in 1932 but the Dust Bowl got its name from the horrendous winds beginning in 1935. The primary area it effected was the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not hit so badly but the drought, the blowing dust, and the decline of agriculture in the region had a nationwide effect. The wind "turned day into night" and was so strong it picked up the topsoil on the ground and blew it away in large clouds of dust. The farmers who worked the Great Plains had been breaking up the sod and soil on the plain states since the time of the Homestead Act. Poor farming techniques and years of depleting the soil led to the soil becoming susceptible to the winds.
How did the dust bowl begin?
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. The primary area it effected was the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not hit so badly but the drought, the blowing dust, and the decline of agriculture in the region had a nationwide effect. The loss of agricultural production helped to lengthen the Depression, not only in the US but worldwide. The displaced farmers became the migrants described in John Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath. Families from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas, packed what they could in cars and trucks and headed west. Most were aiming for California where they would become a class of migrant farmers, following the crops during the harvesting season. Poor farming techniques and years of depleting the soil led to the soil becoming susceptible to the winds. And when the winds came, the soil was picked up and "day became night."
The drout during the Great Depression?
A large drought overwhelmed the Great Plains area in the 1930s. The drought caused much damage in the Dust Bowl states.
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 factors led to the physical devastation of much of the great plains in the 1930s?
The Dust Bowl of 1930 was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion.
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.
What term was given to the region that suffered severe drought during the depression?
The Dust Bowl: this was part of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas affected by severe windstorms and erosion in the early 1930s.
In the 1930s drought and erosion combined to create a farming crisis in the midwestern states known as the Dust Bowl. Many mid western farmers responded to this disaster by?
Migrating to California.
Why was the settlement of the great plains slow to come with settlers passing it by for the west coast?
The great plains were considered to be a "desert" (to some extent this was confirmed when people later settled there in the 1920s and through improper erosion control farming practices followed by a several year drought, brought about the dust bowl during the 1930s).This land is actually very fertile, but only with modern irrigation and erosion control practices that were not available to the pioneers in the 1800s.
Is it true that the dust bowl was a terrible tornado that hit Oklahoma with lots of rain?
No. The dust bowl was a period of extreme drought that struck the Great Plains during the 1930s and was worsened by poor farming techniques. Oklahoma was especially hard hit. This period of drought would likely have inhibited tornado formation, but it did result in massive dust storms, often dubbed "black blizzards."
What caused dust pneumonia during the 1930s?
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.
What happened to create the dust bowl inn the 1930s?
A long period (years) of drought led to the dust bowl in the 1930s. This left the top soil prone to wind erosion. When winds came, it created dust storms that killed many because you cannot breathe in dust.
What is name given to the major environment crisis of the 1930s?
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.
Was the decade of the 1930s called The Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. The dust bowl winds began in 1932 but the Dust Bowl got its name from the horrendous winds beginning in 1935. The primary area it effected was the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not hit so badly but the drought, the blowing dust, and the decline of agriculture in the region had a nationwide effect. The wind "turned day into night" and was so strong it picked up the topsoil on the ground and blew it away in large clouds of dust. The farmers who worked the Great Plains had been breaking up the sod and soil on the plain states since the time of the Homestead Act. Poor farming techniques and years of depleting the soil led to the soil becoming susceptible to the winds.
