Dust Bowl

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The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf drought
dust storm disaster
environmental disaster
historical event
affects agriculture
farmers
livestock
rural communities
documentedBy Farm Security Administration photographers
documentedIn The Grapes of Wrath
followedBy implementation of soil conservation programs
hasAlternativeName Dirty Thirties
hasCause high winds
overgrazing
overplowing of prairie grasslands
poor farming practices
severe drought
soil erosion
hasEffect crop failures
dust pneumonia
economic hardship
farm foreclosures
internal migration in the United States
massive dust storms
public health problems
soil degradation
widespread displacement of farming communities
hasEndTime late 1930s
hasLocation Canada
Great Plains
North America
United States
hasNotableEvent Black Sunday
hasNotableEventDate April 14, 1935
hasPeakPeriod 1934
1935
1936
hasResponse New Deal relief programs for farmers
creation of the Soil Conservation Service
hasStartTime early 1930s
influences New Deal agricultural policy
linked to: New Deal

Soil conservation policy in the United States
occursIn Alberta
Colorado
Kansas
Manitoba
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Saskatchewan
South Dakota
Texas Panhandle
linked to: Texas

Wyoming

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Great Depression hasKeyEvent Dust Bowl
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 historicalContext Dust Bowl droughts
linked to: Dust Bowl
Great Plains historicalEvent Dust Bowl
Black Sunday (dust storm) partOf Dust Bowl
subject linked to: Black Sunday
Black Sunday (dust storm) significantEventFor Dust Bowl
subject linked to: Black Sunday
Black Sunday (dust storm) alsoKnownAs Black Sunday dust storm
subject linked to: Black Sunday
linked to: Dust Bowl
Farm Security Administration photographers mainSubject Dust Bowl migrants
linked to: Dust Bowl
Dirty Thirties alternateName Dust Bowl era
linked to: Dust Bowl
Dirty Thirties hasPart Dust Bowl
Dirty Thirties notableEvent Black Sunday dust storm
linked to: Dust Bowl
Farm Credit Act of 1933 context Great Depression farm crisis
linked to: Dust Bowl
Eastern Colorado historicalRegionOf Dust Bowl (1930s impacts)
subject linked to: eastern Colorado
linked to: Dust Bowl
Texas Panhandle historicalEvent Dust Bowl of the 1930s affected the region
linked to: Dust Bowl
Tom Joad basedInEvent Dust Bowl
Pa Joad affectedBy Dust Bowl
Joad family associatedWithEvent Dust Bowl
Oklahoma Panhandle historicalEra Dust Bowl era
linked to: Dust Bowl
Southern Plains affectedBy Dust Bowl
My Oklahoma Home hasTheme Dust Bowl
Pastures of Plenty theme Dust Bowl
So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh influencedBy Dust Bowl migration
linked to: Dust Bowl
Pretty Boy Floyd historicalSetting Dust Bowl era
linked to: Dust Bowl
Do Re Mi culturalContext Dust Bowl migration from the Southern Plains
linked to: Dust Bowl
Do Re Mi associatedWithEvent Dust Bowl
Bound for Glory mainSubject Dust Bowl
Oklahoma dust storm photograph temporalContext Dust Bowl era
linked to: Dust Bowl
Rose of Sharon setDuring Dust Bowl era
linked to: Dust Bowl
Noah Joad settingOfActivity Dust Bowl era
linked to: Dust Bowl
Joad associatedWithEvent Dust Bowl
Bound for Glory depicts Dust Bowl