The Dust Bowl

How long did the Dust Bowl last?

• 100 years
• a decade
• five years
• one year

Which is NOT a cause of the Dust Bowl?

• drought
• over farming
• overgrazing
• floods

What were the people called who left the Dust Bowl area and migrated to the West?

• migrants
• travelers
• Okies
• loners

What economic disaster was happening at the same time as the Dust Bowl?

• World War I
• the Great Depression
• World War II
• the Gold Rush

What is a drought?

• A period of time with lots of snow.
• A period of time with little rain.
• A period of time with heavy winds.
• A period of time with lots of rain.

The effect of the Dust Bowl on farmers was made even worse by...

• The Great Depression
• The Jazz Age
• The First Amendment
• FDR's New Deal

What caused the Dust Bowl?

• farmers added too much fertilizer to their soil
• farmers didn't know they needed to rotate their crops
• farmers experienced a huge drought
• farms in Missouri experienced a freak F-5 tornado

When was the Dust Bowl?

• 1950's
• 2000's
• 1930's
• 1920's

Who wrote the book The Grapes of Wrath?

• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• John Steinbeck
• Langston Hughes
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

This book told the story of the hardship farmers faced as a result of the Dust Bowl.

• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Feminine Mystique
• The Great Gastby