Keka, Lam Dust Bowl

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  1. 3. A folklore that farmers followed to try and make it rain
  2. 5. President Roosevelt purchased millions of acres of this plain land that had been affected by the Dust Bowl and turned them into what to hold the soil and save the land?
  3. 7. Road that took people to California to settle in camps and work in farms/orchards
  4. 9. Terrible droughts robbed people of their jobs
  5. 10. What service developed and promoted new farming techniques to combat the problem of soil erosion?
  6. 12. Another nickname for WindBreakers
  7. 13. What were the severe dust storms that swept the Great Plains called?
  8. 15. What insect destroyed any crops that could grow?
  9. 16. Roughly 250,000 Oklahoma migrants moved where to look for work?
  10. 17. A sustainable farming method that helps nutrients stay put
  11. 23. Period of blow average rain fall
  12. 26. By 1934, approximately how much acres of farm land had no more topsoil
  13. 27. Layer of soil on the surface
  14. 28. In a bid to salvage what had been left and still survive the drought, the federal government purchased starved livestock for ___ dollar to use the funds in helping those affected by lack of food.
  15. 29. The degradation of dry-land ecosystems through a combination of natural and human causes
  16. 30. Dust Bowl was as a result of poor ____ conservation
  17. 31. An attitude that Americans had a sacred duty to expand west
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  1. 1. Townsmen rally together and smashed jackrabbits to death
  2. 2. Long broad strip of trees that protected soil and crops from wind
  3. 4. What program did young men plant trees, dig ditches and build reservoirs which contributed to flood control, water conservation and prevented further soil erosion?
  4. 6. During the event, the top soil was blown away in huge clouds of dust at speeds as high as _____ miles an hour
  5. 8. A term of disdain used to refer to any poor Dust Bowl migrant, regardless of their state of origin
  6. 11. What did some people develop because of the dust bowls where they experienced chest pain and difficulty breathing?
  7. 13. Sunday The day where millions of tons of dirt and debris blowing from the Plains all the way into Washington D.C
  8. 14. Farmers tore up even more grassland in an attempt to harvest a bumper crop and break even because they entered what?
  9. 18. What animal destroyed any crops that could grow?
  10. 19. Under what act did the government reserved 140 million acres as protected federal lands?
  11. 20. What did the CCC spread to battle grasshoppers?
  12. 21. What was the dust bowl also known as?
  13. 22. A method of turning over the top layer of soil to remove weeds and add fertilizers and pesticides, which also allowed carbon dioxide, an important soil nutrient, to escape from the topsoil
  14. 24. The Dust Bowl Era started in the nineteen ________
  15. 25. What was the era known was where strong winds, drought and dust clouds that plagued nearly 75 percent of the United States between 1931 and 1939?
  16. 26. Excessive grazing causing damage to grasslands
  17. 30. The Dust Bowl Era ended nineteen thirty ___?