Essays on Dust Bowl

The novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is about the social injustices that took place during the Dust Bowl migration in the western United States. It is composed of a third person view of a family, the Joads, who are kicked off their...

The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s was an unfortunate combination of natural occurrences, mixed with the nation’s over aspiring greed. Our country began westward expansion with the dream of advancing product sea to sea. Our ancestors saw what the land had to offer, and wasted...

On October 29, 1929, an event called the Great Depression began. It changed the world forever. It affected many lives because people could not afford food to put on the table, and daily living was a struggle. In 1933, 13 to 15 million Americans were...

After watching the film, The Grapes of Wrath, I now have a more visual picture of life during the Dust Bowl. The film represented a dark era of American History, which is also known as the “Dirty Thirties”, and while the time frame started during...

The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in the history of the world. It started after the financial exchange crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a frenzy and cleared out a huge number of investors. By 1933, when the Great Depression...

The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind...