1 Describe what you see in this picture 2 When and where do you think this picture was taken Explain your answer 3 How do you think a storm like this occurs 4 What can citizens do during environmental disasters such as this ID: 605873
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Sample Slide with Image
1) Describe what you see in this picture.
2) When and where do you think this picture was
taken? Explain
your answer
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3) How do you think a storm like this occurs?
4) What can citizens do during environmental disasters such as this?
5) What can the government do to help citizens in times of disaster?Slide2
The Dust BowlSlide3
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl refers to a period of severe dust storms and soil erosion in the Great Plains during the 1930s.Region included parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and smaller parts of New Mexico and Nebraska.Slide4
CausesIncrease in plow-based farming in 1920sNew mechanized farming led to overproductionLoss of fertile topsoil that literally blew away in the
winds Fields now vulnerable to drought and inhospitable for growing crops. In a brutal twist of fate, a drought strikes.Slide5
Dust BowlA terrible drought, coupled with decades of damage to the topsoil from plowing, led to extreme wind erosion and huge dust clouds that covered the Plains.
Thousands of Midwestern farmers lost everything and, bankrupted, were forced to move west to try to find work as migrant labor. Slide6
Dust Storms300+ dust storms from 1933-1938. Storms featured
fast moving clouds of dust several miles wideCovered farms and homes, destroyed crops, and made people sick. Slide7
Displacement and MigrationMany people left the Dust Bowl region, abandoning their homes and to look for work in Western states, such as
California.Exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time. 1930-1940: about 3.5 million people moved out of the Plains states
Migrant family in San Francisco, 1935
Farmer leveling dust hills in Texas, 1938Slide8
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)PhotojournalistLange’s photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Dust BowlP
rofoundly influenced the development of documentary photographySlide9Slide10
John Steinbeck (1902- 1968)Author of The Grapes of Wrath, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel about the tragedies which befell a
family of Oklahoma farmers during the Dust Bowl (fiction)Of Mice and Men-a story about the tragic friendship between two poor migrant workers