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__**Where & When:**__ The Dust Bowl took place throughout most of the United States. The worst of the storms were in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas. The two that were the center of it were Oklahoma and Texas(Dust Bowl History 1). The actually Dust Bowl took place during the Great Depression. It started around 1931 as droughts started happening and created damage.

In the Homestead Act(1862), many farmers moved to Great Plains region for cheap land also "early settlers used the land for livestock grazing until agricultural mechanization combined with high grain prices during [|World War I] enticed farmers to plow up millions of acres of natural grass cover to plant wheat"(History.com Staff 1). __**Causes:**__ In the area in the Dust Bowl, soil lacked a strong root system of grass, plowing for wheat crops destroyed soil. The wheat was not a strong crop and could not survive through a drought, though the grass that had been there before could. As a result strong wind turned loose topsoil into thick dust clouds called, "black blizzards"(History.com Staff 1). There were no plants to keep the soil down on the ground. Beginning in 1931, the mid-west experienced little to no rain. The lack of rain was so horrible that the drought had become the worst to ever hit the United States. The drought ended up covering about 75% of the United States with 27 of those states getting the brunt of the storm. (Surviving the Dust Bowl 1)
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As the weather got worse, the storms made more of an impression. In 1932, there had been fourteen dust storms. Then, just a year later, there had been thirty eight (Surviving the Dust Bowl 1). The storms reached high into the air and spread over large distance. One storm in particular reached all the way to New York City on the East Coast from the Great Plains (Histoy.com Staff 1). The dust that the wind carried covered everything it went through. Houses, farms, and crops were all destroyed. Many living things choked from dust inhalation. Nothing could escape the grime. Dirt came into home and covered everything. Food, if there was any, was soiled. People starved from the drought. Their main food source didn't survive (Cook, Miller, Seager 1). Most things were buried in several feet of dust. Farmers, having no income, decided to move. One third of the farmers in the mid-west moved to California. The people of California called them "Okies"(What Caused the Dust Bowl? 1). It finally ended in 1939 when there was rain that fell. There was still clean up and recovery to do, but the droughts had stopped (Surviving the Dust Bowl 1).
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