The Dust Bowl

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Across
  1. 3. Oklahoma town mentioned during the worst storm years
  2. 5. Texas town tied to Dust Bowl relief work and documentary efforts
  3. 7. Tool that turned over grassland and exposed soil
  4. 8. Woody Guthrie, singer who chronicled Dust Bowl life in songs
  5. 9. Built-up ridges that help hold water and slow erosion
  6. 11. Hugh Hammond Bennett, key “soil conservation” leader
  7. 12. Program encouraging people to leave marginal lands
  8. 14. Work-study program that helped students earn money
  9. 15. Arthur Rothstein, photographer who shot iconic Dust Bowl images
  10. 18. Destination many migrants believed offered jobs and water
  11. 22. Famous highway many migrants used heading west
  12. 25. Farm Security Administration that aided farmers and documented conditions
  13. 26. Plowing along land contours to reduce runoff and erosion
  14. 29. Machine that sped up large-scale plowing and farming
  15. 30. Farming too much land, too intensively, too fast
  16. 33. Nickname for massive dust storms that blotted out the sun
  17. 35. Prairie type especially common in the southern Plains
  18. 36. Common label (often insulting) for Dust Bowl-era migrants
  19. 38. Roosevelt-era set of programs responding to crisis
  20. 40. Program that put young men to work on conservation projects
  21. 42. Long stretch of little rain that triggered crop failure
  22. 44. Economic collapse that worsened Dust Bowl suffering
Down
  1. 1. The original grassland ecosystem of the Plains
  2. 2. Long tree windbreaks planted to slow wind and dust
  3. 4. Mass movement of families leaving the Plains
  4. 6. Town near the Dust Bowl’s “center,” used to mark worst conditions
  5. 10. Protecting land by changing farming methods
  6. 13. Old-style plow that made deeper rows and disturbed soil differently
  7. 16. Risky bet that land and crops would keep paying off
  8. 17. A native grass that helped hold the Plains soil in place
  9. 19. Major Dust Bowl city in the Texas Panhandle
  10. 20. Name given to the 1930s Plains ecological disaster
  11. 21. The narrow “handle” region of Oklahoma and Texas hit hard
  12. 23. Underground aquifer later tapped for irrigation across the Plains
  13. 24. Topsoil being worn away and carried off by wind
  14. 27. The main cash crop that drove the Plains boom
  15. 28. The fertile upper layer of earth that blew away in storms
  16. 31. Author of The Grapes of Wrath about migrant struggles
  17. 32. Dorothea Lange, photographer who documented migrant hardship
  18. 34. Government help such as food, supplies, and aid programs
  19. 35. Roy Stryker, who directed major federal photography documentation
  20. 37. April 14, 1935 dust storm often called the worst
  21. 39. New Deal program that created millions of jobs
  22. 41. A large-scale departure in search of survival and work
  23. 43. President who backed major federal action in the Plains