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 of America
surface form: 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
surface form: New Deal agricultural policy

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

Wyoming

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