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