Stories Beneath the Dust: Captivating Images from the Dust Bowl Era

Jan 12, 2025

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Explore captivating images from the Dust Bowl era, revealing stories of resilience, struggle, and survival. Journey through history with these poignant snapshots of a challenging time in America's past.

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Stories Beneath the Dust: Captivating Images from the Dust Bowl Era

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Images • from the Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. 1931. Drought in Midwest and Plains Black blizzards over plowed land. 1933. From 14 dust storms in 1932 to 36 in 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt takes office Banks take four day holiday Government gives $200 million to banks to give loans to farmers in need

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl > Dust Storm. A wall of dirt and sand descends upon Spearman, Texas, on August 14, 1935. The Dust Bowl > Dust Storm Approaching Startford, Texas, 1930s. The Dust Bowl > Pare Lorenz, The Plow That Broke the Plains , 1936.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Power point created by Robert Martinez Primary Content Source: Mini-Qs in American History, DBQ Project. On Thursday, April 18,1935, a huge, black, billowing cloud of dirt piled up on the western horizon.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Causes of the Dust Bowl. Millions of acres of farmland tilled during 1920s from North Dakota to Texas One-crop farming exhausted the land Drought in the 1930s Winds picked up Little grass and few trees were left to hold the soil down.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Stewart Fussell & Jessica McClellan. Where Did the Dust Bowl Occur?. Great Plains: South East Colorado South West Kansas Oklahoma Panhandle Texas. When Did the Dust Bowl Occur?. Past Event Occurred in the 1930’s L asted for a decade.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Grade 4 Social Studies Unit: 10 Lesson: 02. The Dust Bowl: 1930s. The Dust Bowl was an area of the country that was affected by drought in the 1930s, with 1934-1936 being the most severe.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. The Depression impacted rural areas The poor economy led to reduced demand for food, which led to reduced prices for crops Farmers who could not make money could not pay the banks and were foreclosed on Mother nature and poor farming practices made things worse

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The Dust Bowl

Madison, James, Brady, Noah, Luke, Zach and Justin. The Dust Bowl. What was the dust bowl?. A series of wind and dust storms. During this time, farmers had a hard time growing their crops. The dust bowl hit the United S tates in the 1930’s. The dust bowl dest r oyed over 5 million acres.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Document Based Questions. What was the Dust bowl?. A period, essentially from 1934-1936, during The Great Depression, when severe dust storms caused major ecological and agricultural damage to the mid-western United States.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. An ecological disaster on the great plains during the great depression. The Dust Bowl .

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. What is a Dust Bowl??!??. The term “Dust Bowl” refers to the time period of agricultural devastation during the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl occurred in the early 1930’s & ended in the early 1940’s.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. By: Miss Rego. Extra Credit

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. By Carmen B. The Dust Bowl. Imagine your self in front of a huge cloud of dust. Well a lot of people did. They were in what we call the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Dust Bowl Map. Name five states the Dust Bowl affected. Causes of the Dust Bowl. Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Mrs. Janiak U.S. History. 1931 Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. By Vivek, Felix, Eugenia. The dust bowl was a time of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to prairie lands in the 1930s. If you get rid of the cover of the topsoil, the dirt will turn into dust and blow away causing dust storms.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. What was it?. The worst drought in history Lasting from 1931 until 1939 (8 Long Years!). The Ecosystem Before the Tragedy. It was a sea of grass and wheat 2-4 feet tall. For ten years there was a severe lack of rainfall (only 20” per year). S oil Erosion.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. In 1931…. Little rain fell Temperatures reached record highs! These conditions ruined the farmers’ crops. What Happened to the Land?. The farmers ripped out all the grass. There was nothing to hold the soil in place. Strong winds blew the dirt. Black Blizzard.

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. How were farmers fairing on the great plains during the 1920? What was they Dust Bowl? What states/region did the Dust Bowl impact What were the main causes of the Dust Bowl? What was life like for plains farmers during the Dust Bowl Who were the Okies ?

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Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl

Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl. Photographs of Migrant Workers in California 1936-1939 by Dorothea Lange. And Voices from the Dustbowl a collection of actual recordings from Government Camps in California. Downloaded from the American Memory Project The Library of Congress

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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Handout Make three predictions about the Dust Bowl based upon the following words…. foreclosure. California. Route 66. drought. Okie. Poverty. Farmer. Crops. Great Plains. Promised Land. Agriculture. Parched. Oklahoma. Over-farming. jalopy. Migration.

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Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl

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