Dust being carried and swept all around your home and town basically describes The Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl led to a major decline in an area’s population because large numbers of people moved, people left to go to safe states, people lost jobs, and the number of storms affected the population.
To start things off, the first reason the population declined is because large numbers and groups of people moved during The Dust Bowl. “Recurrent dust storms wreaked havoc, choking cattle and pasture lands and driving 60 percent of the population from the region.” (Dust Bowl) This is a major drop in population because over half of the people living there moved, and that helped lead to the decline. “By 1940, more than 2.5 million people had fled from…
Most of the people that moved went to go to the far west.(Dust Bowl) Since people are moving in somewhere else, other place’s population will increase, while the states that The Dust Bowl is in will increase. The Dust Bowl also forced many families to leave behind their farm and move to safer places.(Dust Bowl) Many families needed to get into a safe place so their children would not be affected, so they moved to other states. If they had stayed, they would be putting their children in danger. In addition, “And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out.”(About The Dust Bowl) Soon, everyone started to realise the outcome The Dust Bowl could have on them, so more and more people started moving in all different places, including all of the states…
Policemen started patrolling the border so that the population would not increase in their area. (Mass Exodus From the Plains)The increase in population was becoming a problem in safe states, so they had to limit the amount of people that could live there because so many people were moving.“The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history.” (Mass Exodus From the Plains) If states had to be blocked off from the people in The Dust Bowl, then it must have been a huge population loss in the affected states.
The number of Dust Storms coming also influenced people’s minds about leaving.“The number of dust storms is increasing. Fourteen are reported this year; next year there will be 38, when people learned this they fled.(About The Dust Bowl) People learned that the storms were not over, and they would get worse, so even more people left to try to avoid the storms and the mess that came with them.
In conclusion, The Dust Bowl drastically affected the population in certain places. The Dust Bowl was even named the largest migration period in history! Many people moved with large groups, they left to go to safer places, people were fired and no longer had a job, and the storms caused people to leave. So therefore, this was a bad time in history and we should hope that it never happens to…
