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The Dust Bowl: School Research Project
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How did the dust bowl affect the residents while it was happening?
What did the dust bowl cause?
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How was the dust bowl formed?
While the Dust Bowl was happening around 18,000 cotton workers went on strike. A lot of the residents went hungry and homeless. The farmers tried over and over to plant crops, but nothing would grow. The sky would darken for days at a time.
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The dust bowl was so powerful it was choking cattle, and causing possibly thousands of residents in the Plains to die from all the dirt that had clogged their lungs . It also caused around 2.5 million people to move from the region. Almost 10 percent moved to California.
The soil was very dry and it was lacking a strong root system which allowed the winds to easily pick up the loose soil and form into dense dust clouds.
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What Caused The Dust Bowl?
In the region the dust bowl occurred, all most all of the land was struggling with severe droughts. Even though the land was having problems, the farmers never thought to, or at least didn't try, try any methods for the dry land that could have possibly prevented the wind erosion.
What Was the dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl was a very severe dust storm that occurred in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, and Kansas. The Dust Bowl damaged the US agriculture and ecology throughout the 1930s.