how did the dust bowl effecte the people?
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The years preceeding the Dust Bowl were very good.  The farmers were booming and they started buying more land to plant more crops.  They started taking out loans to buy the land and machines.  Then there was a drought.  They had all this land that they cleared for crops and and the crops died.  So when the plants died from lack of water and the wind came it blew all that loose dirt everywhere.  So there was little food and everything was dirty.  If they had no crops to sell they didn't have money.  Loans on the property and machinery started to foreclose.  This was one factor of the Great Depression.  Now if you drive through a state like Oklahoma you will see a single row of trees planted.  These are called windbreaks.  It is supposed to prevent loose dirt being blown around again.
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less dust allergies, bacteria, mold, mildew and your health is effected by a dirty environment
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millions of years ago.....\n a meteor hit the earth causing the dust, dirt, sand, and other particles to fly into the air and stay. at this time the particles caused a darkness which blocked the sun whit prevnted the plants to grow & the herbivores died.... when the herbavores died the carnivores died because herbavors were thier main source of food.
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The wind blows sand and rubble. Erosion might also cause the land to shift.
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pollution and devastation to the environment\n\nspecies invasion\n\nover consumption leading to extinction\n\nand, basically natural disasters
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Wikipedia has a complete overview of it; including causes and the aftermath. I linked it below for you.
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Lots of people lost everything they had and committed suicide.  People starved and died of illness because there was no money for anything extra.
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"One of the most obvious effects of the famine was emigration. Although the famine itself probably resulted in about 1 million deaths, the resultant emigration caused the population to drop by a further 3 million. About 1 million of these are estimated to have emigrated in the immediate famine period, with the depression that followed continuing the decline until the second half of the 20th century. These migrants largely ended up in North America, with some in Australia and in Britain."\nTable of figures at the site below
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the people who were doing it honestly felt they were 'helping' the colonized people by showing them a 'better' civilization, better ways, better religion that would get them to heaven, etc.\nthe intent was not necessarily bad.  the impact was devastating.
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1. They did not have high-tech gadgets to dig coal or check the levels of gases like sulfur or carbon monoxide.\n\n2. They had to crawl in on thier knees to dig coal in crawl spaces about 3 feet high with hand tools and buckets.\n\n3. The did not have repirators to keep coal dust and gases out of their lungs which caused Black Lung Disease.\n\n4. If walls or roofs collapsed they had little chance of getting out alive unless a fellow miner seen a problem and pulled them out before the collapse.\n\nMy B/F's grandfather along with his father and brothers worked in the mines in the state of West Virginia back in the 30's, 40's & 50's. He said it was a VERY dangerous job but they had to do it to feed their families. Many miners have cancers or died from cancers but it is not well documented because the mining companies have to protect their ASSets ;)
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Lack of oxygen, accumulation of coal dust in lungs and on mucus membranes, scratching of the cornea due to excess dust... theres a long list.
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Not many for the majority of people. Most were poor, ill fed and led short lives.
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have you ever heard of pnemoconiosis, or pulmonary fibrosis. it is a restrictive lung disease that can be cause by exposure to certain enviromental causes. The one that i am most familar with is black lung from working in coal dust (most cases of pulmonary fibrosis in my area is from that). But surly sand would cause the same effect if you are exposed to a lot of sand storms.
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My edited version below:\n\nMost people believe that their everyday life is full of many treacherous problems, but their problems pale in comparison to the life of a young girl living during the The Great Dust Bowl. Written by Karen Hesse, the novel Out of the Dust tells the story of a young girl and her family as they struggle to survive through The Great Dust Bowl. At first, Billy Jo’s life is as normal as any girl living during this time, but a series of unfortunate events leads to the loss of a loved one. She wakes up every morning to the feeling of loneliness and sorrow as her relationship with her father blows away in the dust. Without a doubt, Billy Jo faces many life changing conflicts, including the guilt of accidentally killing her mother, horrible dust storms, and an unstable relationship with her father.
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It was originally cowboy jargon.  The person who had to ride behind the cattle herd when it was being driven to market was called the drag rider, and he was said to "eat dust" (a herd of cattle can stir up a respectable cloud of dust, visible for miles.)  When you were in a hurry and drove the animals too hard, without time enough to stop and graze and drink, the weaker ones collapsed, typically forward onto their knees.  They "bit the dust."
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There was a large bird said to travel along the front edge of storms.  The Mississippi people told tales that came down thur other tribes.  Also there were early white settlers that told of a large bird that would carry away sheep and other livestock.  A southern tribe tells a story of large birds that would carry children off and how the warriors went and killed them all to protect their families
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I have. Last Oct. Too many strip mines. They ( Coal Companies ) are destroying that part of the world. It was not pretty.