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- 1. Nickname for the DustBowl
- 4. What were giant Dust Storms called? _____
- 7. The Worst Dust Storm,April 14,1935
- 9. Farmlands had a severe lack of these before the storm.
- 13. Prices went up, and people didn't have enough ______ to purchase food
- 14. Old people and _____ were the most vulnerable to eye and lung damage from the storms.
- 19. _________ million dollars were distributed to cattlemen for emergency feed loans
- 20. ______ thousand people left Oklahoma
- 21. People tried to protect themselves from the Dust Bowl by hanging ______ ______ in front of their doorways and windows.
- 24. The main cause of the Dust Bowl
- 25. People had to wear these to protect their eyes and lungs
- 26. ______ million dollars were lost everyday in 1936.
- 27. The _______ _____ helped clean up the dust bowl
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- 2. Roughly _.5 million people died as a result of the Dust Bowl
- 3. The State was hit the hardest.
- 5. Nickname for drastic dust storms
- 6. ______ farmers were blamed for the Dust Bowl.
- 8. The Year The Dust Bowl Started
- 10. How Big was the Dust Bowl? _____ million acres.
- 11. The Dust Bowl drought lasted for a _____.
- 12. Where did most of the Okies go during the Dust Bowl period?
- 15. The decade the Dust Bowl ended.
- 16. The most severally affected by the dust bowl were ____, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
- 17. The Dust storms would be as hot as ______ degrees.
- 18. The Dust Bowl lasted ____ years.
- 22. One of the longest storms lasted ___ and a half days.
- 23. The ____ of 1936 was had one of the worst droughts ever recorded.