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The Dust Bowl by Hawah Kallon

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 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 did things. Children wore mask to schools because they didn't want to get any dirt in their lungs. Women would put wet sheets in there window to try to let the dirt out but it wouldn't work as well as they hoped. The farmers couldn't do anything, so they would look at their crops fly away. The dust made everything look like a yellow and brown haze. The dust bowl was so devastating, 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 had been blown away.

 

 

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Why did the Dust Bowl happen?

  The dust bowl happened because the farmers didn't farm well. Farmers were not prepared 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 the dirt to go everywhere.

 

Why should people care about the Dust Bowl?

People should care about the dust bowl because we can learn from our mistakes. If we forgot about it, we might have had a second 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 . It's good because if there is another drought, we still have water to plant. 

 

Sources

1. Nelson, Cary. "About The Dust Bowl."englishilinois.edu,n.p.,n.d. Web 15. Septmember. 2011

 

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To find out where the dust bowl was and essential question #1    :The Dust Bowl By Chelsea

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