USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The misuse of the land and the severe drought combined to create the Dust Bowl-a vast, parched area in the Midwest. The Dust Bowl affected one hundred million acres of land. The resulting black blizzards happened when millions of tons of dirt were swept from the parched, barren fields and swirled up into the air.

Detailed explanation-2: -During most of the 1930s, the Great Plains region was devastated by drought and high winds. Howling across the Great Plains, these winds whipped up the soil of the over-farmed land and created blizzards of dust. These “black blizzards” were so thick and blinding that daylight seemed more like dusk.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Dust Bowl period, severe dust storms, often called “black blizzards, ” swept the Great Plains. Some of these carried topsoil from Texas and Oklahoma as far east as Washington, D.C. and New York City, and coated ships in the Atlantic Ocean with dust.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Dust Bowl as an area received its name following the disastrous Black Sunday storm in April 1935 when reporter Robert E. Geiger referred to the region as “the Dust Bowl” in his account of the storm.