Entries Tagged as 'dust bowl'

Surviving the Dust Bowl- Documentary Film and Lesson

December 4, 2009 · No Comments · history, social studies, TAH

Lured by the promise of rich, plentiful soil, thousands of settlers came to the Southern Plains, bringing farming techniques that worked well in the North and East. The farmers subsequently plowed millions of acres of grassland, only to have the rains stop in the summer of 1931. The catastrophic eight-year drought that followed led observers [...]

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