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- 3. The state where the Dust Bowl began.
- 6. The main cause that led to extended droughts, unusually high temperatures, and poor agricultural practices, leading to the Dust Bowl.
- 8. During the Dust Bowl, food prices _______ because farms were lost.
- 10. About how much percent of the country was affected by the dust storms in the 1930s?
- 12. Dust Bowl were caused by hot temperature, extended droughts, and excessive_______.
- 13. Besides Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, this state, much bigger than the rest was greatly affected by the Dust Bowl.
- 14. Most farm families migrated _______ during the Dust Bowl.
- 15. During the suffering droughts, many people migrated west looking for _____.
- 18. The name of the organization that resolved the Dust Bowl by planting millions of trees.
- 21. The name of the AP reporter that named the term "Dust Bowl" because of the drought's effect on the south central U.S.
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- 1. One of the disease that people suffered from inhaling the airborne prairie dust was _____.
- 2. Plain The severe droughts affected the MidWest and _____ region in the 1930s.
- 3. A blanket term used to describe all agricultural migrants, no matter their home states.
- 4. In 1937, they stepped up these efforts, paying farmers to practice more expensive soil preservation techniques, like ______.
- 5. What year did the Dust Bowl start? (spell numbers with words)
- 7. What year did the Dust Bowl end? (spell numbers with words)
- 9. During the Dust Bowl animals _____ without enough crops to feed them.
- 11. Who had no money to pay banks when they ran out of crops or animals to sell?
- 16. The term that refers to the ground drying up and turning into dust.
- 17. Another name for Dust Bowl since it started in the 1930s and lasted for about a decade.
- 19. People began to plant _____ to stop the blowing soil from the Dust Bowl.
- 20. When people lost their crops, animals, and jobs, they became ______.
