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- 2. another name for the static that was building up in the clouds of dust
- 4. this new deal administration offered help to farmers and their farmland
- 5. the location of the dust bowl
- 7. the year that the dust bowl ended
- 9. these animals were killed and hung on fences because it was believed that doing this would make it rain
- 12. this agency was more involved in land management and soil consevation
- 14. this race of workers were replaced by people arriving in california
- 15. nickname for the massive dust cloud that reached all the way to the east coast
- 16. amount that the federal government paid for starved livestock at auctions
- 18. these buildings were closed and resulted in kids no longer having to attend there
- 19. this foods market collapsed because of the droughts and dust
- 21. this percentage of people affected by the dustbowl stayed put
- 22. one of the primary causes of the Dust bowl
- 24. the two states affected most by the dust bowl
- 26. millions of this insect swarmed the areas where the dustbowl was occurring
- 27. this group of people had their crops fail to grow and their livestock die of starvation
- 28. Name of reporter that coined the name Dust Bowl
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- 1. the approximate amount of deaths caused by the dust bowl
- 3. the total number of economic losses caused by the dustbowl
- 6. president in office during the dustbowl
- 8. the dustbowl lasted from 19__ to 1936
- 10. the dustbowl while kind of a natural disaster was mostly
- 11. thousands of this animal showed up during the dust storms
- 13. the dust bowl affected everyone because it become a ______ for the hardships of the 1930s
- 17. the dustbowl caused an ________ depression
- 20. Nickname for the dust bowl
- 23. state that many farmers fled to in order to escape the dust bowl
- 25. this respiratory illness was amplified because of the dust bowl
