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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT THE DUST BOWL EXAM
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Question 1: What happened to the weather in the 1930's?
Answer:
The rain stopped
Question 2: In 1935, what problem did farmers face?
Answer:
The land was destroyed by jack rabbits that were starving.
Question 3: What happened to the fields when the rains stopped?
Answer:
Dried up and dust formed.Question 4: Did all the farmers leave the Southern Plains during the Dust Bowl? How many left?
Answer:
No, but most did. Over 2.5 million people moved out of the Plains and 200,000 moved to California.
Question 5: What came to the fields in the 20's?
Answer:
Tractors and Farmers
Question 6: How many acres became waste land?
Answer:
One hundred million Question 7: Plowing was no longer done to plants, what was the purpose of plowing?
Answer:
To dig up the soil so that it was easier to plant different things.
Question 8: Describe the Southern Plains.
Answer:
The land was untouched, lush and green, but there is a never ending cycle of drought and rain.
Question 9: What did the people spit out?
Answer:
Dirt Question 10: Describe the film that was created that promoted conservation of soil.
Answer:
"The Plow that Broke the Plains" paid Melt White's Dad to play a farmer breaking up the soil; the film showed the farmer's farming practices to be the reason why the soil was would not grow anything.
Question 11: What drew the farmers to the Southern Plains?
Answer:
The farmers were promised a heaven on earth. Advertisements put out said that the Southern Plains had beautiful lands and the people were encouraged to believe that this was the Garden of Eden. They were also paid well for farming wheat.
Question 12: What did Washington finally do about the problem?
Answer:
He paid farmers to use conservation methods.
Question 13: What were some home remedies?
Answer:
Skunk grease, sugar and turpentine, kerosene and lard.
Question 14: What was the Last Man's Club?
Answer:
Issued the call to arms which was meant to build up courage. The men in the club pledged to stay and do anything to help others.
Question 15: What solution did Tex Thorton propose?
Answer:
That they use explosion to excite the atmosphere and induce rain.
Question 16: What was the land and soil like before farmers plowed it?
Answer:
The land was green and lush, and the soil was extremely rich like chocolate.
Question 17: What were the results of the conservation efforts?
Answer:
The dust blowing and storms reduced by 65% but the drought continued.
Question 18: What were the dust storms called?
Answer:
Black Blizzards
Question 19: What did the Government do to help the farmers?
Answer:
Offered relief through Franklin
- Roosevelt's New Deal
Question 20: What did the Red Cross do?
Answer:
Handed out dust masks.
Question 21: What were rabbit drives, explain?
Answer:
The men would go out, hunt jack rabbits, and kill them because there were to many of them.
Question 22: How many dust storms were there in 1932, in 1933?
Answer:
1932=14
1933=38
Question 23: What didn't the farmers know about the land when they started to move to the southern plains?
Answer:
The farmers didn't realize that they were witnessing only a brief moment in an endless cycle of rain and drought. Their constant plowing and planting also stripped the land of its nutrients.
Question 24: What did the government do to the cattle, Why?
Answer:
Bought and destroyed cattle because the livestock feed depleted.Question 25: How were the farming conditions in 1931 compared to the rest of the country?
Answer:
conditions in 1931 were better in the Southern Plains than in the rest of the country.
Question 26: Who was John McCarty?
Answer:
The editor of the Dow Hart Newspaper who started the Last Man's Club.
Question 27: How many acres a day could a tractor plow?
Answer:
50
Question 28: Where did people turn for moral support?
Answer:
The Bible
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