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What caused the dust bowl and what states were most affected by it?
The Dust Bowl was caused by an incredibly severe drought. The states most affected were Texas and Oklahoma.
What factor was a major cause of the dust bowl?
The major cause of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s was a combination of poor farming practices, prolonged drought, and widespread deforestation. Farmers overcultivated the land, leaving it vulnerable to erosion when the drought hit, leading to massive dust storms and crop failures.
What were the three causes of the US Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl occurred because of drought. It occurred because of farmers overusing the land and not rotating crops, planting the same things year after year. It occurred because of severe wind storms in the area.
What are two causes contributed to dust bowl?
Drought, and infertile land
Many farmers became as a result of the Dust Bowl?
Many farmers lost their livelihoods and were forced to abandon their land due to the extreme drought and soil erosion caused by the Dust Bowl. This led to widespread financial hardship and mass migration of families in search of better opportunities elsewhere.
Did most Oklahoma farmers head to the east coast after the dust bowl drought?
Actually, most of the migration was west, to California, rather than to the east coast. In the 1930's, California was still to some extent an uncrowded frontier, with more room for new immigrants than the older states of the east coast.
Farmers suffered not only from the economic depression but also from a ten-year drought that created what?
The Dust Bowl
Farmers suffered not only from the economic depression but also from a 10 year drought that created the?
dust bowl, homework
What environmental disaster added the great depression and hit the farmers the worst?
You are describing the Dust Bowl, a decade of severe drought in the west and southwest that ruined countless farmers.
What caused the dust bowl and what states were most affected by it?
The Dust Bowl was caused by an incredibly severe drought. The states most affected were Texas and Oklahoma.
When was the worst drought in Indiana?
The worst drought in Indiana occurred in the 1930s, during the Dust Bowl era. This period was marked by severe dry conditions, crop failures, and economic hardship for many farmers in the state.
What factor was a major cause of the dust bowl?
The major cause of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s was a combination of poor farming practices, prolonged drought, and widespread deforestation. Farmers overcultivated the land, leaving it vulnerable to erosion when the drought hit, leading to massive dust storms and crop failures.
What were the three causes of the US Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl occurred because of drought. It occurred because of farmers overusing the land and not rotating crops, planting the same things year after year. It occurred because of severe wind storms in the area.
What was the result of drought and erosion in the Great Plains in the 1930s?
Many farmers left the great plain because the dust bowl caused droughts and that was really bad for agriculture or farming
What is a famous drought?
the dust bowl
Who was hurt worse by the dust bowl?
Farmers, it was a severe drought which they had to deal with, thus, they had to move to CA or other states/places not affected by it. Read "The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck.
What was the name given to the area in the US that experienced severe drought during the great depression?
The Dust Bowl covered Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico. Farmers lost their fertile soil to the winds, and their farms to the banks.
