The Dust Bowl Impact

The Dust Bowl Impact

By Daniel Sprenkle

As if it wasn't bad enough that crops prices fell, the stock market crashed, and the lack of rain, now, you wake up each morning to see your fields covered in a growing amount of dirt and more dead cattle.

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​All the unprotected, loose, and dried out dirt was blown into giant black dust storms known as black blizzards.

Black Blizzards

Entire towns and farms were swallowed up by the black blizzards.

Hungry monster

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the large dust storms?

• Black-eyed Peas

• Mr. Heat Miser

• black blizzards

• The black blizzards covered fields with dirt and killed the crops that were planted.

• With no crops to harvest and sell, farmers faced even harder times. ​

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​Lots of dirt but no crops

Many of those farmers who were able to hang on with the low crop prices couldn't survive the black blizzards.

Home no more

As more farms and towns were covered in dirt, ​farmers left the Great Plains to look for work in other states.

​​Is the grass greener?

Multiple Choice

Which is the correct sequence of events?

• 1. Black blizzards cover fields with dirt.

  2. Crops die.

  3. Farmers go broke.

  4. Farmers move to other states.

• 1. Farmers move to other states.

  2. Farmers go broke.

  3. Black blizzards cover fields with dirt.

  4. Crops die.

• 1. Crops die.

  2. Black blizzards cover fields with dirt.

  3. Farmers move to other states.

  4. Farmers go broke.

2.5 million people left the Great Plains in what was the largest migration in the U.S.

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Of these, 1 million headed to California hoping to work on one of the many farms there.​

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​Great Migration

Draw

Circle the state where 1 million Great Plains farmers moved to.