The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a region in the Mid-West Plains during the Depression Era that went through severe storms of blowing dust during a drought. Farmers lacked soil conservation and, after they got their use out of the land, failed to replant vegetation that would anchor the soil. Consequently, the light top soil, dry conditions, and high winds caused wind storms that carried high volumes of soil that suffocated the lives of farmers across this region. Many were forced to move out of the area because their lives were at risk. As a part of Roosevelt's New Deal Programs, the Soil Conservation Service was implemented to help rehabilitate farm land. Some believe that the Dust Bowl trashed Thomas Jefferson's ideology of agrarianism.
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