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1930s Dust Bowl
AKA “The Dirty Thirties”
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Pre-1930’s Farming
• Demand rose for wheat during WWI– drove the prices for wheat crops to an all time
high
• At the end of the war, prices began to fall– Farmers had to cultivate more land to
compensate for falling prices (possible due to new technology)
– Larger supply of wheat on the market drove prices even lower
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“Sodbusters”
• Sod: thick grasses with deep roots that protected the prairie from wind and rain erosion
• Sodbusters broke the sod up for farming purposes– As a result, wind and soil erosion began to
occur on the prairie
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1930’s Weather
• Harsh blizzards winter 1930-1931
• Below average rain– 1930-1933
• Severe drought– 1934, 1935, and 1936 record years for
drought
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Erosion
• Top soil, now lacking sod to protect it from wind and rain, blew across the prairie.
• Blowing sand made breathing difficult.
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“Black Blizzards”
• Dust rose in enormous black clouds, and became known as black blizzards
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Lyrics from a Woody Guthrie song declared, “The storm was as black as tar and as big as an ocean. It looked like we was all done for.”
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Video Clips
• http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/himdustbowl.htm
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The Aftermath…
How would you describe the scenes in these pictures?
What would you do if this was your farm?
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Top soil disintegrated to dust and
drifted. Farms and
homes became
worthless.
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Mass Exodus
• People left in droves, looking for food and work elsewhere
Many headed west working as migrant farm workers
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Temporary Migrant Camps
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Dorothea Lange, Photographer
• Master Photographer from this time period
• Your task: analyze a sampling of Dorothea Lange’s photography
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Assignment
• What did farmers learn from the dust bowl?
• What changes did they implement to reverse the damage from the dust bowl?
• Could a Dust Bowl happen again? Why or why not?
• Text pages 430-432, 438-439, 457