What are the causes and effects of the dust bowl?

Answer 1

The Dust Bowl refers to a drought experienced in the Plains states. Subsistence farmers were hit by foreclosures owing to their inability to farm. Many packed up their belongings and moved to California in search of farm worker jobs to support their families. President Roosevelt included specific bills in his New Deal Program, aimed at helping the victims of the Dust Bowl. These included allocation of federal, protected lands under the Taylor Act of 1934, and the Civil Conservation Corps, which allowed young men to do outdoor work and send money home to their families.

Answer 2

The dust bowl was caused by drought, poor farming practices, and extensive plowing of the land, which destroyed the topsoil. This led to massive dust storms and soil erosion, resulting in agricultural devastation, economic hardship, and forced migration of people from the affected regions.

Answer 3

Causes:

drought, erotion, lack of plants

Effect:

caused families to leave homes, some to go blind

Answer 4

On the great plains dust storms raced across the dry farmland which the wind picked up the topsoil and blew it away.