Dustbowl

2. No rain, no crops, just dry land everywhere
3. When your plants give up and die
6. People from Oklahoma who packed up and moved west because their farms were done for
8. The huge dirt disaster in the 1930s where everything went dry and dusty
10. The middle-of-nowhere part of the US that got hit the hardest
11. When you leave your home because you have no other choice
12. When all the good dirt got blown away
13. The "promised land" where a bunch of Dust Bowl Migrants went to start over
15. Families leaving their homes
17. That big state with cowboys
18. People from Arkansas who moved out west
19. What most people did back then...until the dirt stopped cooperating

1. Made life hard, everyone lost money, stock market crashed
4. Nature's way of saying "Here, have some sand in your face."
5. The idea of saving dirt
7. A farm people could live on
9. The main crop in the Great Plains that got wrecked during the Dust Bowl
13. Farm animals that had to be sold off or died because there wasn't enough food
14. FDR's big plan to save people from themselves
16. The worst dust storm that hit in 1935 and made everything pitch black