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The drought hit. People had no clue what was to come...

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Small and little amounts of dust clouds hit.

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Franklin Roosevelt takes office, the country is desperate for help.

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The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act happens. It granted farmers $200 million for refinancing mortgages to help farmers, But It wasn't enough

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There were 161 soil erosion camps.

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6 million pigs were slaughtered to pay the price. And most of it didnt matter it was going to waste anyways.

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Dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely.

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During this time the United states has been trying to fund places and areas to stop the dust.

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Black Sunday. The worst “black blizzard” of the Dust Bowl occurs, causing extensive damage.

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Congress declares soil erosion “a national menace”

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Some experts estimate that 850,000,000 tons of topsoil has blown off the Southern Plains during the course of the year.

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the soil conservation district program recognized that new farming methods needed to be accepted and enforced by the farmers on the land rather than bureaucrats in Washington.

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Roosevelt says  “I see one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished… the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

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FDR’s Shelterbelt Project begins. This is a project where large-scale planting of trees across the Great Plains

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There was intince work going on this year. There were groups of people

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In the fall rain finally comes. This is the end of the dust bowl. For now at least for now...