Dust Bowl

3. Area most heavily effected by the Dust Bowl.
7. Nickname for April 14, 1935 when 20 of the worst dust storms in US history hit the country.
9. exposed dry farmland and contributed to the start of the storm.
10. Hard to breathe and chest pain.
12. The dust cloud that disrupted 1000s of farms across the united staes
14. Poor migrants from the American Southwest displaced by the Dust Bowl.
15. The effort to build a hundred-mile-wide belt from Texas to Canada to contain soil and water and protect farms from wind.

1. The part of farmland that was dry from over farming that was swept up by strong winds that created dust storms.
2. Government organization meant to guide land owners on ways to reduce soil erosion and prevent dust storms.
4. Nickname for dust storms.
5. When people moved out of the states that the dust bowl was affecting to a different state.
6. beliefs that Americans had a duty to expand the west
8. The time of a severe recession from 1929-1941.
9. News editor for the Associated Press who coined the term "Dust Bowl"
10. Period of time when there is little to no rainfall.
11. The struggle to find food supplies.
13. The government creating laws to help benefit people during these times.