The+Dust+Bowl

Definition- a mass sandstorm lasting eight years.
====The dust bowl was a natural disaster that made life very difficult for the people of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Texas. The yellowish-brown dust blew across the southern plains and turned black by the time it reached the northern plains.====

The dust bowl forced many farmers and others out of their homes.
====**Lawrence Svobida, a dust bowl survivor, explains his experience of the dust bowl. "Many of the townspeople, having no means of transport, are forced to abandon their property and leave on foot, with only the clothes on their backs and such bundles as may be carried in their hands."**====

[|THE DUST BOWL TIMELINE]

 * ====**1931**==== || ====Drought hits the Midwest/south====

so called "black funnels" begin from the sand blown up from over plowed land
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 * ====**1932**==== || ====There are more and more dust storms.====

As many as 14 and then increasing to 38 in the next month
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 * ====**1933**==== || ====**March**====

Fleeing farmers cause the largest Agricultural work strike known to American History.
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 * ====**1934**==== || ====**May**====

The storms venture out into other states, 27 altogether, and 75% of the country affected.
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 * ^  || ====**June**====

Roosevelt takes 140 million acres of land out of the public to establish carefully monitored grazing districts. This is referred to as the Taylor Grazing Act
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 * ====**1935**==== || ====**January 15**====
 * ====**1935**==== || ====**January 15**====

**April 8**
===="FDR approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, which provides $525 million for drought relief, and authorizes creation of the Works Progress Administration, which would employ 8.5 million people."====

Black Sunday.
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 * ====**1936**====

**1937**
|| ====**February**====

L.A. Police send border control (to Oklahoma and Arizona) to keep those unwanted out.
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 * ^  || ====**March**====

Roosevelt begins Shelterbelt Project which is to replant the trees in the affected areas.
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 * ====**1938**==== || ====People begin to replant the Land==== ||
 * ====**1939**==== || ====Rain Finally Comes ending the drought==== ||