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- 1. Where did the Dustbowl happen?
- 3. Also happening while the dustbowl was happening
- 4. Soil turned into dust because of the drought and poor farming techniques. This caused dust storms to sweep across the Great Plains.
- 5. Considered to be the worst dust storm of the era, blew away 300,000,000 tons of soil across the country.
- 6. in the 1930's the plains suffered a long drought. without the prairie sod holding the soil to the ground , the soil
- 7. Group that provided belief and solutions to try to end the dust bowl.
- 10. The Los Angeles police had 125 policemen to act as bouncers at the state border to turn away people that were trying to come to California.
- 13. A long time without rain. This happened in the Great Plains in 1930.
- 17. Laws mandating proper soil maintenance to make sure that another dust bowl was avoided. Allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to "conserve soil", prevent erosion, and accomplish other minor goals.
- 19. Farmers that left the Great Plains because of storms and harvested crops from place to place.
- 20. What part of Oklahoma was hit the hardest?
- 26. helps maintain the health of the soil and controls weeds, diseases, and insects
- 27. You filed a claim and you had to live on it and build some kind of house on it if you wanted to keep it for free.
- 29. A Book written John Steinbeck described a flight of families from the dust bowl.
- 30. Song about the storm seeming like the end of the world.
- 31. How many dust storms were there in 1933
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- 2. How much top soil in the Southern Plains blew away in 1935?
- 5. Great dust storms that swept across the plains, blotting out the sun and suffocating livestock as well as people
- 8. The government planted 220 million _ across the countries to stop the dustbowl.
- 9. President during dust bowl
- 11. Policies by the president to help support the country during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
- 12. What else was the dust bowl called
- 14. New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work plant a belt of trees from Abilene to Canada.
- 15. The state with the most migrants from other states.
- 16. natural phenomenon added to people's fears in the spring of 1935
- 18. When the dust bowl ended
- 21. common illness was attributed to the Dust Bow
- 22. Hit the hardest, but people all over the state were hurt economically during these years.
- 23. What major highway was used for those who migrated away from the Dust Bowl?
- 24. trees serve as wind breaks to reduce blowing
- 25. man made methods to bring water to the crops
- 28. The families that migrated from Oklahoma to other states were called...