Question

What is the dust bowl tragedy

Answer 1

The Dust Bowl is an environmental disaster that hit the Midwest in the 1930s. A combination of a severe water shortage and harsh farming techniques created it. ... The drought and dust destroyed a large part of U.S. agricultural production. The Dust Bowl made the Great Depression even worse.

Answer 2

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 erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon