https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi Made with the best of intentions en-us 2017-02-15 13:56:07 UTC 2025-12-03 07:08:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/153999839 The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America.]]> 2017-02-15 13:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/153999839 hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154002275 The states affected by the Dust Bowl were Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico.]]> 2017-02-15 14:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154002275 hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154005022 The Dust Bowl lasted for about a decade.]]> 2017-02-15 14:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154005022 hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154005852 Government also purchased 11.3 million acres of submarginal land to keep it out of production. ]]> 2017-02-15 14:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154005852 hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154006244 60% of the population was affected by The Dust Bowl.]]> 2017-02-15 14:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154006244 hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154006530 Sky Parsons , Rasheed Woods and Chris Jenkins]]> 2017-02-15 14:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154006530 hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154007591 The Dust Bowl prompted a cultural response from artists like Dorothea Lange, Woody Guthrie, and John Steinbeck, who lamented the American economic ethos that had created the disaster.]]> 2017-02-15 14:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154007591 hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154011911 Marilyn Lott wrote a poem about the Dust Bowl called "Those Terrible Dust Bowl Days"]]> 2017-02-15 14:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154011911 hisbabygirl112915 https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154017180  Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states, almost all to the West.]]> 2017-02-15 14:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hisbabygirl112915/cme55khwousi/wish/154017180