Dust Bowl

Examples of Dust Bowl in the following topics:

• Dust Bowl Migrants

  • The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s.
  • The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.
  • The Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres, centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.
  • The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time.
  • The music and writings of Woody Guthrie were also inspired by the migrant workers and the Dust Bowl.

• The Human Toll

  • The sustained drought and storms damaged the land so badly that overall farm revenue fell by 50 percent in the Dust Bowl region.
  • While there is no official death toll due to insufficient record keeping, it is believed that up to 7,000 deaths occurred as a result of the Dust Bowl.
  • The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time.
  • The music and writings of Woody Guthrie were also inspired by migrant workers and the Dust Bowl.
  • Farm equipment in South Dakota is left half exposed by one of the many wind storms that swept across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl period of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

• The Great Depression

  • Between 1930 and 1936, severe drought conditions existed in America’s Great Plains regions, with soil turning to dust and then blowing across dry, unused fields in what became known as “Dust Bowls.”
  • Dorothea Lange's 1937 photo of a Dust Bowl family from Missouri stuck on the side of the road near Tracy, California.

• Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

  • In 1930, a confluence of bad weather and poor agricultural practices compounded the Depression's effects on farmers in areas that included 1 million acres in the South and Midwest Great Plains that came to be known as the Dust Bowl.
  • The sustained drought and storms damaged the land so badly that overall farm revenue fell by 50 percent in the Dust Bowl region.
  • Some residents of the Plains, especially in Kansas and Oklahoma, became ill and died of dust pneumonia or malnutrition.
  • While there is no official death toll due to insufficient record keeping, it is believed that up to 7,000 deaths occurred as a result of the Dust Bowl.
  • The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time.

• Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants

  • However, the use of Mexican migrant laborers declined during the Great Depression, when internal migrant workers from Dust Bowl states moved west to California, taking jobs normally filled by Mexican migrants.

• The Diversity of the West

  • However, the use of Mexican migrant laborers declined during the Great Depression, when internal migrant workers from Dust Bowl states moved west to California, taking jobs normally filled by Mexican migrants.

• Domestic Conservatism

  • He proclaimed that the United States was in a position that made it virtually impregnable and he pointed out that when interventionists said "the defense of England" they really meant "defeat of Germany. " Lindbergh's presence at the Hollywood Bowl rally was overshadowed, however, by the presence of fringe elements in the crowd.

• The Election of 1972

  • This image of him in the White House bowling alley seems calculated to appeal to his core constituency (b).

• The Labor Wars

  • Pulmonary ailments were common due to dust accumulation on the floors and tables.

• Washington and DuBois

  • When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life.