USA became Dust Bowl


 
 
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USA became Dust Bowl

US Become a Dust Bowl

The expansion of wheat agriculture in the Great Plains created other problems. In the 1930s, terrifying duststorms beganto blow over the southern plains. Black blizzards rolled in , very often 7,000 to 8,000 feet high, rising like monstrous waves of moddy water.They came day after day, year after year, through the 1930s. As the skies darkened, and the dust swept in, people were blinded and chocked . Cattle were suffocated to death, their lungs caked with dust and mud. Sand buried fences, covered fields, coated fields, and coated the surface of rivers till the fish died. Dead bodies of birds and animals were strewn all over the landscape. Tractors and machines that had ploughed the earth and the harvested the wheat in the 1920s were now clogged with dust, damaged beyond repair.

In the early 1930s the rains failed year after year, and the temperatures soared. The wind blews with ferocious speed. But ordinary duststorms become black blizzards only because the entire landscape had been ploughed over,stripped of all the grass that held it together.When wheat cultivation had expanded in the early 20th century, zealous farmers had recklessely uprooted all vegetation, and tractors had turned the soil over, and broken the dust into sod. The whole region had become a dust bowl. The dream of America land of plenty had turned into nightmare . The settlers had thought that they could conquer the entire landscape, turn all land over to growing crops that could yield profits. After the 1930s, they realized that they had to respect the ecological condition of each region

 
 


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