Dust Bowl Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. how many states did it affect?
  2. 6. In 1932, President _____ sent emergency aid to the affected areas
  3. 7. approximately 2.5 million people, known pejoratively as ___ migrated away
  4. 8. In 1935, President _______ set up drought relief programs, such as the Prairie States Forestry Project which employed local farmers to grow trees as a way to block some of the wind erosion
  5. 9. Heavy winds eroded the ____ of the region
Down
  1. 1. children developed this
  2. 3. how many years did the dustbowl last?
  3. 4. a period of severe drought and dust storms that struck the Midwest and Central plains
  4. 5. this covered everything in feet of dust, sometimes blue dust all the way to the east coast
  5. 6. _____ 1862, which granted land to settlers to farm.