The Dust Bowl :: American History

The Dust BowlThe early 1900s were a quantify of turmoil for farmers in the United States, especially in the Great Plains share. afterward the end of World War I, overproduction by farmers resulted in utter prices for crops. When farmers first came to the Midwest, they farmed as much wheat as they could because of the high prices and demand. Of the 97 acres, almost thirty-two million acres were being cultivated. The farmers were careless in their planting of the crop, caring only about profit, and they started plowing grasslands that were not make for planting. Because of their constant plowing year after year and the lack of rainfall, the blur was quickly losing its fertility. With unfertile, run dry land, the wheat crop started dying, and then blowing away with wind. collectable to the improper farming, along with a long drouth, dust storms made vitality in the Dust Bowl very burdensome. During the 1930s, the Great Plains was plagued with a drought, a long period of drynes s, which brought demise to some(prenominal) of the farmers in the region. This horrible drought started in 1930, a year that saw heavy rains in a very short time, which cause flooding in many areas of the okeh Panhandle. The year continued to with horrible blizzards in the winter and a drought into the late summer. Many of the farms in the Great Plains, losing most of the crop, were greatly alter by the first droughts of the 1930s. The months of July and August saw about a forty-percent fall down of precipitation compared to previous years. From 1934 to 1936, A record drought hit the southwestern region. In 1934 the temperature was excruciatingly hot, causing many to die as a result of the heat. 1935 was a year where rainfall was very, very scarce. The heat began to work up at fast rates in the summer of 1936, with many long time reaching above 120 degrees. The drought, along with the dust storms, were major reasons for light farming in the Great Plains during the early to mid -1930s. Because of the drought, the ground became very dry in the Great Plains. This area, known as the Dust Bowl, was a region of horrible dust storms during most of the 1930s. The storms accompanied the drought and intensified the problems of the farmers. With the drought, many fields were not in a situation to grow crops.