1. The Dust Bowl 1930-1936

2. The Dust Bowl was aka the Dirty Thirtys

3. Severe DustStorms

4. Winds erode the soil

5. It was one of the greatest environmental disasters of American History!

6. Map of theMid-Western States

7. Farming

8. Livestock died

9. Mother & child

10. People felthelpless and depressed.

11. Dust Masks

12. Families migrated west.

13. Woody Guthrie

14. 1930s The 1930s

15. Stock Market Crashes$$ Economic Crisis $$

16. Worst nightmare

17. Unemployment

18. no job = no money

19. Malnourishment

20. Soup Kitchens

21. Poverty

22. President F.D.R.

23. Restoring the economy.

24. Books on the Dust Bowl