THE DUST BOWL
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- When and Where: The Dust Bowl was created in 1935. There are many causes of why the Dust Bowl was created. It all started in the 1920s but ended in the 1940s through multiple labor-based and government programs. The Great Plains, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico got affected. Even though the Dust Bowl formally relates to the western third of Kansas, southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico, these have come to signify the 1930s difficulties of the whole country
- Why: This was a scary time; it wasn’t just like a lack of rain or famine; it was what they called “black blizzards," in which soil was blown all over the place to the point where it blocked the sun and piled up the dirt in drifts. Many factors led to The Dust Bowl, but the major four are droughts, poor management, the stock market, and homesteaders. The Great Plains became crowded with people as a result of homesteaders, which received payments and gave reasons to settle there. The land dried out as a result of the growing number of droughts, and farmers made poor land management decisions. Additionally, to promote the stock market, producers overworked themselves.
- Who and What: The Dust Bowl migrants became known as "Okies." As the Okies arrived in California, they experienced conflict, hard work, and poor earnings. Many of them lived in shanty towns and tent cities beside water distribution canals. "Okie" quickly became a harsh term for any poor Dust Bowl migrant, no matter their state of home. The environment was bad, there was bad weather, and the farming wasn’t good either; many animals died and many people didn’t get the essentials they needed since crops couldn’t be produced properly.
- Takeaway: My takeaway is the wasteful and careless cropping efforts made by farmers in the Great Plains were one of the major causes of the Dust Bowl, leading the soil to be sucked up of all nutrition and to dry up completely. Instead of following in the footsteps of the indigenous peoples and their healthier, more better crop systems, European white settlers developed their new thing to making a successful capitalist stock market. This definitely serves as an extremely important lesson on land stewardship.
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