DUST BOWL 1930’s
Dust Bowl: The Dust Bowl was a time in the desert where it was very droughted and wind would pick up the sand and start big sand/dust storms.
Whole towns where covered in dust like in this photo
OTHER EVENTS GOING ON DURING/NEAR THIS TIME: The Great Depression was a very big event going on during this time and before this time period.
The dust bowl was a terrible weather event
getting better in the later 30’s. Those two
that let millions of people to be forced to move
events where very bad and left people
and some died. One of the worst was “Black
devastated and people would have to start
Rollers”. The dust storms would cover towns
getting better. The Great Depression was at its
and homes in sand that could trap people and
worst in the 29’s before the Dust Bowl started
ruined their crops. They couldn’t grow much and
but the Dust Bowl went into the 40’s too. These
when they could mostly it could be corn or
events left many people homeless and some
wheat. The dust could get inside people and kill
dead.
them because you do not want to have dust inside of your lungs that could stop you from breathing. The Great Depression was a very bad time when the stock market fell and many people spent as much money just to buy stocks before they fell too much. Many people got let go from their jobs and couldn’t pay for their family’s and would be homeless. People had to wait in lines to wait for food and other things. It started
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