Dust Bowl

Title: Dust Bowl
Category: History | Words: 780 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Dust Bowl

The early 1900's were a time of turmoil for farmers in the United States, especially in the Great Plains region. After the end of World War I, overproduction by farmers resulted in low prices for crops. When farmers first came to the Midwest, they farmed as much wheat as they could because of the high prices and demand. Of the ninety-seven acres, almost thirty-two million acres were being cultivated. The farmers were careless in their …showed first 75 words of 780 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 780 total…their land to get prices back up. The Supreme Court ruled the AAA unconstitutional in 1936. Congress responded by passing the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936, which paid farmers to plant "soil-conserving" crops such as soybeans, or they could leave their land fallow. The AAA helped to lift the burden put on many farmers during the dirty 1930's, but the almost every farmer suffered greatly due to the drought, their farming, and dust storms.

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