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SMR- “The Dust Bowl” NBC The Dust Bowl represented a time of hopelessness. An already damaged population, from the Depression, was not unable to produce food. The Great Plains were, and still are, where large areas are designated to grow food for the entire nation. During the four-year drought that was dubbed the Dust Bowl, food could not be produced with the constant blow of dust. It was literally a deadened land. The Dust Bowl made a bad situation worse; it intensified the economic impact of the Great Depression in the Mid-west. In addition, the dust storms left hundred of thousands of Americans homeless. The storms had torn-down and damaged housing, causing one of the largest American migrations in U.S. history. Migrants moved to California and to the East coast. The great migration inspired many pieces of literature and art, such as __The Grapes of Wrath__ and “Bakersfield Sound.” In response to increase migration and a lack of agriculture, Roosevelt order the Civilian Conservation Corps to plant a row of trees from Canada to Texas, in order to stop the dust from blowing. In addition, the Drought Relief Service was instructed to educate farmers about agriculture. Their main goals were to teach the farmers new soil conservation techniques such as crop rotation, contour plowing, and strip farming. Roosevelt instituted these relief groups in an effort to prevent the same sort of disaster from reoccurring. 1/23