Transcript The great depression and the dust bowl

The great depression and the
American dust bowl
By Amelia Cooke
The great depression
• The depression originated in the United States, starting with
the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as
Black Tuesday), but quickly spread to almost every country
in the world.
• Money changed its value each day.
• Profits and prices dropped.
• Unemployment in the United States rose to 25%, and in
some countries rose as high as 33%.
• Farming and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by
approximately 60%.
• Countries started to recover by the mid-1930s, but in many
countries the negative effects of the Great Depression
lasted until the start of World War II .
Photos of the Great Depression
and crash
Graphs
The American dust bowl
• The dust bowl was known as the ‘dirty thirties’ which was
when America and the Canadian prairie lands had severe dust
storms which caused major ecological and agricultural damage.
• It was caused by severe drought and extensive farming without
crop rotation. During the drought of the 1930s, with nothing to
keep the soil in place, it dried, turned to dust, and blew away
eastward and southward in large dark clouds .
• Most of the dust ended up blowing into the Atlantic ocean
• The dust storms were given names such as “Black Blizzards”
and “Black Rollers”
• It often reduced visibility to a few feet (around a metre).
• The Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres centred on
the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and adjacent parts of
New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.
Photos of the American Dust
Bowl
Graphs