(Write 800 words about a specific event in 1930’s during the dust bowl. This event must be important to regions deep west of the US.)
Dust bowl bullet points:
What is the Dust Bowl exactly? What caused the Dust Bowl? Why is it called Dust Bowl? Where did it occur, was it national or a local event?
How did the government and the citizens respond to this crisis? What did people living in the plains do to survive? If the land is not nutritious enough to grow, then where did they migrate to and why?
Who got affected the most by this event? When did this happen? What are the long and short effects on the economy and its people? How does this relate to the great depression?
How did it influence art and culture? What changes did the land undergo during and after the Dust Bowl? What were the changes in agriculture and the population in the plains?
In 1930s 440,000 Oklahomans migrated to other states due to poverty. Most of them went to California and Arizona.
