The Dust Bowl!

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Across
  1. 8. belief that Americans needed to expand to the West
  2. 9. What region did the Dust Bowl occur?
  3. 10. "____ follows the plow"
  4. 11. Great American _____ (term used to describe the area due to a lack of trees & water)
  5. 12. War that incentivized farming during the time
Down
  1. 1. Term used for the dust storms that reached as far as Washington D.C.
  2. 2. What caused the soil to turn to dust?
  3. 3. provided settlers with hundreds of acres of land
  4. 4. Farming technique used to cultivate land
  5. 5. What the soil was stripped of once plowed
  6. 6. Civilian Conservation Corp planted trees from Texas to _____
  7. 7. Area of Texas most affected