Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl took place in the

• Pacific Northwest
• Northeast
• Southern Great Plains
• Mid-Atlantic States

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During what decade did the Dust Bowl occur?

• 1890's

• 1930's

• 1920's

• 1910's

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What caused farmers in the 1920's and even into 1935, to farm more land just to make the same amount of money?

• FDR's 2nd Term

• Grain prices dropped

• WWII

What of the choices below was effective to reducing dust storms?

• Crop Rotation

• Intercropping

• Lister Plow

• One Way

What caused the dust bowls to occur? (select ALL that apply)

• Growing Wheat

• Homestead Act

• FDR

• The New Deal

• Mechanized Farming

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What was done by the federal government to help protect the soil from wind erosion?

• Planted trees and grass

• Build windmills nearby

• Stabilize the banking industry

• All of the choices

What farming system has crops planted around slopes or hills to help hold moisture in the soil?

• The One-Way Plow

• Contour Farming

• Aqueducts

• Texas Rows

The worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl was called:

• Dusty Wednesday

• Dirty Monday

• Scary Friday

• Black Sunday

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

• The Great Depression

• WWI

• The gold rush of 1849

• FDR's New Deal

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Many people came to this region to grow

• wheat

• corn

• soybeans

• prairie grasses

• tobacco

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