The Great Depression.

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The Great Depression

The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl Economic and environmental disaster Overproduction, monocrops Plowed up grasses for farms to meet the needs of a booming wheat market Soil exhaustion, soil erosion Drought and winds 1935: Blew winds from CO and NE, blackened the sky across the plains, into the East and Atlantic Ocean

Effects of the Dust Bowl Crops turned to dust=No food to be sent out Homes buried Fields blown away Plains States in state of emergency Dust Bowl the #1 weather crisis of the 20th century

A drought in the Great Plains led to dust storms that destroyed crops. “The Dust Bowl”

Responses Killed millions of animals, burned millions of tons of food Taylor Grazing Act Federal control of grazing

Farm Foreclosures Became Common

Migrants: Okies Poor whites and sharecroppers Evicted from OK, TX, MI, ARK Going to California L.A. Police Chief “bum blockade”