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The conditions of the Dust Bowl contribute to the Great Depression by people not being able to grow crops and sell them to make money. According to the image in document 1, a dust storm approached farms in Standford which led to crops not being able to grow and farmers not being able to get any money by selling it.

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Primary Source:
The following letter was written by a survivor of the Dust Bowl in McCracken, Kansas.
March 24, 1935
Dear Family,
Did some of you think that you had a dust storm? I’ll tell you what it was. It was us shaking our bedding, carpets, etc. For over a week we have been having troublesome times. The dust is something fierce. Sometimes it lets up enough so we can see around; even the sun may shine for a little time, then we have a frenzied time of cleaning, anticipating the comfort of a clean feeling once more. We keep the doors and windows all shut tight, with wet papers on the sills. The tiny particles of dirt sift right through the walls. Two different times it has been an inch thick on my kitchen floor. Our faces look like coal miners’, our hair is gray and stiff with dirt and we grind dirt in our teeth. We have to wash everything just before we eat it and make it as snappy as possible. Sometimes there is a fog all through the house and all we can do about it is sit on our dusty chairs and see that fog settle slowly and silently over everything.   When we open the door, swirling whirlwinds of soil beat against us unmercifully, and we are glad to go back inside and sit choking in the dirt.  As for gardens, we had ours plowed, but now we do not know whether we have more or less soil. It’s useless to plant anything.
Grace

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Dust Bowl Migration

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Secondary Source Definition: Dust Bowl, section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico. The term Dust Bowl was suggested by conditions that struck the region in the early 1930s. The area’s grasslands had supported mostly stock raising until World War I, when millions of acres were put under the plow in order to grow wheat. Following years of overcultivation and generally poor land management in the 1920s, the region—which receives an average rainfall of less than 20 inches (500 mm) in a typical year—suffered a severe drought in the early 1930s that lasted several years. The region’s exposed topsoil, robbed of the anchoring water-retaining roots of its native grasses, was carried off by heavy spring winds. “Black blizzards” of windblown soil blocked out the sun and piled the dirt in drifts.

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Dust storm approaching farms in Stratford, Texas, April 1935.