The Dust Bowl

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Across
  1. 4. the name of the rose of trees planted around the great planes
  2. 7. WWI caused a large increase of demand for this crop
  3. 11. many farmers were forced to move to this state due to the dust storms
  4. 13. after WWI ended the price of wheat plummeted and because of this farmers planted more wheat leading to this
  5. 15. when there was a dust storm drivers had to ________
  6. 16. many mirgents specifically from Oklahoma were given this offensive nickname
  7. 17. the nickname for the day with the biggest dust storms
Down
  1. 1. 90% of these died during the 1930's
  2. 2. what was a very important tool needed if you lived in the dust bowl
  3. 3. one of Dorothea Lang's most famous photo depicting a mother and her kids
  4. 5. many of these were planted around the great planes to lessen in strong winds
  5. 6. nickname of this era of time In the 1930s
  6. 7. The planes was very flat and had no trees, this contributed to the very strong ____
  7. 8. depending on where the dust came from, a lot of dust came in different ____
  8. 9. many of the storms were so bad children could not go home and had to sleep at this place
  9. 10. what happens to the cows in the Dust storm
  10. 12. the first name of the photographer hired by FDR to raise awareness
  11. 14. this invention allowed people to get land ready for farming very quickly
  12. 18. this natural event dried up the dirt and made it easy to be picked up