Long And Long Term Effects Of The Dust Bowl In The 1930's
“Scorched earth. Abandoned farms. Skies black with dust. Houses buried under great dunes of earth. Decades after the drought and depression of the 1930s ended, images of the Dust Bowl are still familiar to millions of people worldwide” (Wesson.) That is what a normal day during the 1930’s was like.
Back then people farmed to get their profit, especially in the southern plains of the U.S. People's lives revolved around farming. If they didn't get their crops planted on time, there wouldn't be food on the table for the family. But “When people mismanage agricultural lands or when natural forces otherwise conspire to destroy soil, the results can be devastating. One of the most dramatic examples occurred in what came to be known as the dust bowl. This was the name given to a wide area covering Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and even agricultural parts of Colorado during the years 1934 and 1935. Over the course of a few months, once-productive farmlands turned into worthless fields of stubble and dust, good for almost nothing and highly vulnerable to violent wind erosion” (Allaby.) …show more content…
Banks,factories, shops closed and farm halted production. MIllions of people left jobless and penniless. This also caused significant effects on people's beliefs and on government policies. some nations changed their leaders and types of government. Many people didn't trust the economy which caused people to withdraw their money from the banks. Thousands of people died from disease that the Dust Bowl caused, such as dust pneumonia,rickets, valley fever, and
Back then people farmed to get their profit, especially in the southern plains of the U.S. People's lives revolved around farming. If they didn't get their crops planted on time, there wouldn't be food on the table for the family. But “When people mismanage agricultural lands or when natural forces otherwise conspire to destroy soil, the results can be devastating. One of the most dramatic examples occurred in what came to be known as the dust bowl. This was the name given to a wide area covering Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and even agricultural parts of Colorado during the years 1934 and 1935. Over the course of a few months, once-productive farmlands turned into worthless fields of stubble and dust, good for almost nothing and highly vulnerable to violent wind erosion” (Allaby.) …show more content…
Banks,factories, shops closed and farm halted production. MIllions of people left jobless and penniless. This also caused significant effects on people's beliefs and on government policies. some nations changed their leaders and types of government. Many people didn't trust the economy which caused people to withdraw their money from the banks. Thousands of people died from disease that the Dust Bowl caused, such as dust pneumonia,rickets, valley fever, and