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1 The Great Depression

2 The Dust Bowl

3 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

4 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

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

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

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11 Farm Foreclosures Became Common

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

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