What was the cause and what contributed to the cause of the dust bowl?

Answer 1

farmers came and settled on the land during a big war withEurope. Europe did not have the time for growing crops so they bought food from the united states. this made farmers rich, most had several mortgages and allot of cattle and crops. when the war was over the farmers of Europe had time to farm again and did not need to buy food from the United States any more so Oklahoma had an economic breakdown farmers kept tillling their land and when they had a drought dust formed and there would be large storms of it across Oklahoma

Answer 2

From 1935-1940 the Dust Bowl affected Americans all over the Great Plains. Farmers since the founding of the United States did not practice crop rotation. Which made the dirt dry and unfit for any type of vegetation. During World War I (when grain prices were high), farmers plowed up thousands of acres of natural grassland to plant wheat. On top of this, a drought struck the Great Plains (from 1934-1937). All of these factors came into play when some high winds came in. The Great Plains were no longer grasslands so there were no roots to hold the soil in place. All of the topsoil blew away and all that was left was dry, unhealthy dirt. Thus, the name "Dust Bowl". Many people left the Great Plains and migrated to the city. Unfortunately, at the same time, there was the Great Depression happening and there were no jobs to be found.

Answer 3

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. The dust bowl winds began in 1932 but the Dust Bowl got its name from the horrendous winds beginning in 1935. The primary area it effected was the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not hit so badly but the drought, the blowing dust, and the decline of agriculture in the region had a nationwide effect. The wind "turned day into night" and was so strong it picked up the topsoil on the ground and blew it away in large clouds of dust. The farmers who worked the Great Plains had been breaking up the sod and soil on the plain states since the time of the Homestead Act. Poor farming techniques and years of depleting the soil led to the soil becoming susceptible to the winds.

The loss of agricultural production helped to lengthen the Depression, not only in the US but worldwide. The displaced farmers became the migrants described in John Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath. Families from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas, packed what they could in cars and trucks and headed west. Most were aiming for California where they would become a class of migrant farmers, following the crops during the harvesting season.

Answer 4

The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops and other techniques to prevent erosion.

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Answer 5

The weather conditions that contributed to the dust bowl were an unusually wet period followed by a sustained drought, combined with high winds. But, weather conditions were not the only cause. The Great Plains was a historically arid (dry) area. An unusually wet several years made people think this had changed and they could now plant crops. So, they destroyed the grasslands that held the soil in place and cultivated the land in a particularly erosion prone way. When the normal climate returned, the traditional drought and high winds turned the topsoil into powder and swept the powder into the air creating clouds of dust.

Answer 6

Drought and poor soil conservation practices were the two main causes.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

drought.

Answer 9

bad winds