The Dust Bowl

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Across
  1. 2. the event in which the Great Plains experienced its first black blizzard, one of the worst dust storms ever seen in American history
  2. 4. a water source far underneath the ground of the Great Plains
  3. 6. The Great Plains were a great place to grow _.
  4. 7. the amount of people who abandoned/left the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl (word form)
  5. 9. land so long as they lived on it and farmed it for five years to encourage westward expansion of the US
  6. 10. Because of this, farmers received 160 acres of
Down
  1. 1. grasslands, couldn’t be used for farming, which allowed the natural prairie grass to grow back and kept the topsoil in place
  2. 3. an underground layer of rock, sand, or gravel that holds and can supply a large amount of water
  3. 5. have a unique environment that is naturally very windy, very hot during the day, and prone to long droughts
  4. 7. the richest and most nutritious part of the soil
  5. 8. generations of farmers—starting with the original pioneers—plowed the Great Plains and used up the topsoil