What is the Dust Bowl?
The Dust bowl was a huge deal in the 1930's. The dust blew for eight years and it changed the way people would do things. Children wore mask to schools because they didn't want to get any drit in there mouth. Women would put wet sheets in there window to try to let the drit out but it wouldn't really work. The farmers couldn't do anything so they would look at their crops fly away. The dust made evething look like a yellow and bown haze. The dust bowl was so devatating, it helped make the Great Depression go longer than is should have because the damage was so great. The damage was so large that in 1935, experts estimated that 850,000,000 tons of topsoil has been blown away.
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Why did the Dust Bowl happen?
The dust bowl happened because the farmers didn't farm well. Farming wasn't the best because they were new to all of this. To make it worse there was a huge drought and the farmers kept plowing the ground again and again because they didn't know what else to do. Form over plowing, there was a lot of topsoil. Since there was such an immense amount of topsoil when the wind came, it was easy for drit so go everywhere.
Why should people care about the Dust Bowl?
people should care about the dust bowl because we can learn from our mistakes. Ifwe forgot about it, we might have had a secound dust bowl. Ever since the dust bowl happened, our farmers got a lot smarter. Farmers today do not over plow. Also farmers have new things like irrigation systems now. It's good because if there is another drought, we still have water to plant.
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