The Dust Bowl

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What was the Dust Bowl?

Series of dust storms that swept through the great plains area. Dust Wind Drought = bad news

Question 1

Who did the Dust Bowl affect most?

Farmers

Question 2

What did they try to do to prevent the dust

storms?

Plant trees and grasses to hold the soil in place

Trees also stop wind Also, (not in your book) but they

started crop rotations.

Question 3

What was Grapes of Wrath

all about?

Farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl, move west to California in hopes of a better life

Question 4

How did movies and music help during the Great

Depression?

Took peoples minds off the bad things, temporary escape

Shirley Temple, Woodie Guthrie, Swing Music

Question 5