Dust Bowl Research Paper

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The Dust Bowl was, and still is, one of the oddest things that ever occurred in nature. The Dust Bowl struck terror into the heart of anyone who witnessed the dust storms rolling across the plains like a furious black cloud. However, as time passed the dust storms were no longer thought of as a freak accident, they became almost ordinary as the dust storms occurred nearly every day.
The Dust Bowl was a period of time when the topsoil became so loose that winds would sweep up the dust, carrying it across the plains in a dark cloud. The Dust Bowl was caused by many different things all leading up to the this period of time sometimes known as the "Dirty Thirties." One of the causes of the Dust Bowl was actually the crash of the stock market in
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After the farmers tilled up so much land, there wasn’t enough roots from the prairie grass to hold the topsoil in place. As a result, the wind blew the dust across the nation. Another of the major causes of the a Dust Bowl was simply drought. After most of the water had dried up there was a drought that lasted nearly 8 years. Without this water, there was nothing that could settle the dust. The dust storms targeted most parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
New Mexico, and Colorado, later this area was named The Dust Bowl.
During the time of the Dust Bowl the dust storms discouraged many people, when the storms swept across the nation, they left nothing but destruction in their wake. Many of the dust storms had winds of about
60mph. When the dust storms passed through, they left behind drifts of dust deep enough to bury an automobile. During the Dust Bowl, there were nearly 7,000 deaths from dust pneumonia and other dust related deaths.
The Dust Bowl also caused many people, about 2.5 million, to lose their homes or migrate to other parts of the country.
There were many dust storms during the Dust Bowl, in 1932 there were only 14 severe dust storms, every year the numbers steadily

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