Facts About The Great Depression That Aren’t As Dark And Gloomy As You’re Expecting

The Dirty Thirties

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The Dust Bowl, or the “Dirty Thirties” was a period when severe dust storms greatly affected the ecology and agriculture in certain places of the United States. AFter 750,000 farms were either lost to bankruptcy or sold in Sherriff sales, lots of former farmland was being unkept.

Because of this, dust storms were able to consolidate and wreak havoc on many of the prairie states. This picture shows an abandoned farm with all of its equipment buried in dust.