Close Reading: The Dust Bowl

Multiple Choice

WHAT KIND OF ENVIRONMENT DOES BILLIE JO LIVE IN FROM "OUT OF THE DUST"

• MUDDY ROADS

• GRASSY LANDS

• FORREST

• DUSTY PLAINS

Multiple Select

MAN-MADE CAUSES OF THE DUST BOWL

• Plowed up and removed native grasses for farming.

• When crops failed they dug up/plowed even more loose soil to the surface.

• The crops they planted were not drought and wind resistent.

• They left the fields bare and did not re-plant.

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WHEN PEOPLE WEREN'T ABLE TO FARM BECAUSE OF THE DUST BOWL, WHAT DID THIS LEAD TO?

• Economic Crisis

• Unemployment

• Poverty

• Loss of food