THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE DUST BOWL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the Great Plains produced all the world’s wheat and cotton
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the Great Plains became a leading example of productive farms for the 20th Century
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the Great Plains’ soil lost nutrients, the soil turned into dust, and the Dust Bowl began.
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the Great Plains’ soil gained nutrients and storms helped irrigate crops.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Contributing Factors. Due to low crop prices and high machinery costs, more submarginal lands were put into production. Farmers also started to abandon soil conservation practices. These events laid the groundwork for the severe soil erosion that would cause the Dust Bowl.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the demand for wheat products grew, cattle grazing was reduced, and millions more acres were plowed and planted. Dry land farming on the Great Plains led to the systematic destruction of the prairie grasses. In the ranching regions, overgrazing also destroyed large areas of grassland.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a drought in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.