Dust Bowl
Drought
Economic Depression
High Temperatures
Dust Storms
Great Plains Shelterbelt
Create a tree wall to break the wind
New Deal
A series of programs, laws, and reforms was launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in the 1930s to combat the Great Depression.
Farm Security Administration
Reduce rural property and resettle farmers into groups
The Plow that Broke The Plains
How over-farming and drought turned the Great Plains into the Dust Bowl.