Black Blizzard Summary

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The article “Black Blizzard” from Scholastic Scope describes how the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was one of the worst natural disasters in US history. Storms of dust and dirt destroyed farming in the midwest states and threatened the lives of the population. Some people even suffocated because they inhaled the dirty air. Farmers tried to grow wheat, but there was no rainfall on the exposed soil, so crops dried out and blew away. These storms were the last straw for farmers.After those five years mortgage companies ran over farms with tractors.They then packed up their belongings and headed west. Overtime migrants were hungry and Californians spread rumors and tried raiding the migrants to leave. America then came out of the Great Depression, but