The dust bowl

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Across
  1. 2. The dust bowl taken place in kanas, oklahoma and texas
  2. 7. animals and Newborns died from starvation and suffocated from dust
  3. 9. Caused bank closures,business losses and unemployment
  4. 11. ended in nineteen forty
  5. 12. overfarmed and overgrazed land began to blow away.
  6. 13. the drought ended when regular rainfall finally returned to the region
Down
  1. 1. people starved, became homeless and became emotionally stressed
  2. 3. People tried to protect themselves by hanging sheets in front of the doorway and windows to filter the sheets
  3. 4. started in nineteen thirty
  4. 5. So much electricity built up between the ground and airborne dust that blue flames leaped from barbed wire fences
  5. 6. people were hoping for rain and trying to combat the shifting earth with improved conservation measures
  6. 8. many foods like wheat were damaged from high winds,rainfall and high temperatures
  7. 10. More than half a million left the region in the 1930s because of the dust