The Great Depression led to may other problems most of them were starvation and death. By the 1930s the drought hit along with the Great Depression. One problem that contributed to the Great Depression was the dust bowl. The dust bowl occurred in many palaces including Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. That made it so that crops wouldn't grow (such as corn, wheat, potatoes,) and couldn't feed people. The dust bowl resulted from a combination of ignorant farming practices and unfortunate weather patterns. The weather would be so different from day to day and was a total of 5 to 10 years that it lasted. The plains had gone without rain for so long when the winds picked up the dust from the fields went in every direction covering cars, houses, tractors, and even buildings. People who lived in the Great Depression blamed the dust bowl and the Great Depression on the government. On April 14, massive clouds of dust blotted out the sun over western Kansas. Over a long period of time people seem to think it would never end. It lasted for many years and had a loss of more crops than known. People couldn't farm and then couldn't feed the country and on top of the Great Depression many people died. The dust would cover over buildings and houses and farming tractors so that you couldn't see for miles if something wasn't buried. it was said that by 1934, The Yearbook of Agriculture announces that 100 million acres have lost all or most of their topsoil, another 125 million acres are about to and 35 million acres cannot grow crops of any kind. During the dust storms, the static electricity was so bad it would short out cars leaving people stranded in the middle of these dust storms. At one point the biggest dust storm reached the Atlantic Ocean. The storm was two miles high and traveled 2,000 miles before hitting the East Coast. The biggest storm that was recorded during the time of the dust storms. Some people say that the dust bowl was man-made. Beginning with World War I, American wheat harvests flowed like gold as demand boomed. People lost food jobs and much more including family.
1)The Great Depression had another problem it led to. What was that problem?
- The Dust Bowl
- The Prohibition
- The 21st Amendment
- Corn
- Potatoes
- Wheat
- All of the above
- 1980's
- When the Great Depression started
- After the Great Depression
- In the 1930's
Answer Key To Questions.
1) The Dust Bowl
2) All Of The Above
3) In the 1930's
1) The Dust Bowl
2) All Of The Above
3) In the 1930's