The Dust Bowl

Question 1

What was the dust bowl?

Answer 1

A period of severe dust storms and soil erosion in the Great Plains during the 1930s. This region included parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and smaller parts of New Mexico and Nebraska

Question 2

When did the dust bowls take place?

Answer 2

1933 - 1938

Question 3

What were the dust storms?

Answer 3

These storms often featured fast moving clouds of dust several miles wide that covered farms and homes, destroyed crops, and made people sick

Question 4

How did the locals deal with the Dust bowl?

Answer 4

Many people left the Dust Bowl region, abandoning their homes and to look for work in Western states.

Question 5

How did locals deal with the Dust bowl?

Answer 5

Many people left the Dust Bowl region, abandoning their homes and to look for work in Western states.

Question 6

What did the government do to deal with the Dust bowl?

Answer 6

•Hoover said: “prosperity was just around the corner” • Raised protective tariffs and lowered taxes
> Give-a-job scheme
•Reconstruction Finance Corporation – gave loans to banks, industries
•Federal Farm Board tried to buy surplus crops
•Home Loan Bank helped owners pay mortgages
•Dams like the Hoover Dam was built to stimulate employment
•BUT THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH – in fact, much of what Hoover proposed made the situation worse:
> Spending the USA out of the Depression
> Import tariffs