Across
- 2. how many states did it affect?
- 6. In 1932, President _____ sent emergency aid to the affected areas
- 7. approximately 2.5 million people, known pejoratively as ___ migrated away
- 8. In 1935, President _______ set up drought relief programs, such as the Prairie States Forestry Project which employed local farmers to grow trees as a way to block some of the wind erosion
- 9. Heavy winds eroded the ____ of the region
Down
- 1. children developed this
- 3. how many years did the dustbowl last?
- 4. a period of severe drought and dust storms that struck the Midwest and Central plains
- 5. this covered everything in feet of dust, sometimes blue dust all the way to the east coast
- 6. _____ 1862, which granted land to settlers to farm.