Secretary of State John Hay initiated the Open Door Policy with China in 1899
Dust bowl
They moved from the great plains
they moved from the great plains
the great depression and the dust bowl
The settlers that moved to the prairie plowed all of the Big Bluestem Grass. The grass keeps the soil on the ground
Dust bowl
1930s.
Many farmers left the great plain because the dust bowl caused droughts and that was really bad for agriculture or farming
Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl
The dirty thirties
Most livestock died of starvation during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
Lowering the land.
Kansas
Lowering the land.
Lowering the land.
It was a terrible decade with the dust bowl and the great depression.