Dust+Bowl

Dust Bowl This is a picture of a dust strom during the dust bowl.

This is a comic about the Dust Bowl.

[|Click Here] to view a powerpoint about the Dust Bowl with many pictures. [|Click Here] to visit a website about the Dust Bowl with a timeline. [|Click Here] to take a quiz about the Dust Bowl.

This is a map of the Dust Bowl and its damage.

1. Drought a. Farmers b. Blizzards, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and dirt storms. c. Panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas d. 1934-1940 2. More than 7000 people died. Millions of animals died. 3. The New Deal a. They created a new soil management agency to educate farmers on how to plant properly. They put a bunch of unemployed to work planting trees all over to stabalize the soil. b. A steady stream of bills were passed to relieve poverty, reduce unemployment and speed economic recovery. 4. The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms. The dust storms contained transported soil. However; during the Dust Bowl there wasn't much residual soil because most of the dirt was flying around in the wind.