C-box:What name did historians give to the great disaster of the 1930s caused by the overplanting and overgrazing of 50 million acres of American land?
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Correct:The Dust Bowl*QS110302.AIF*
Wrong 1:Great Depression
Wrong 2:The Great Famine
Wrong 3:Black Tuesday
Wrong 4:The Gold Rush
Wrong 5:The Trail of Tears
Wrong 6:Manifest Destiny
Wrong 7:Reconstruction
Wrong 8:The Homestead Act
GeoByte1:Because of the dust storms, over four million people left the Great Plains in search of food and jobs.
GeoByte2:The dust storms of the 1930s damaged fifty million acres (20 million ha) of the Midwest.
GeoByte3:Oklahoma was hit hardest by the massive dust storms.
GeoByte4:The dust storms often traveled at speeds of 80 miles (128 km) per day.
GeoByte5:The massive dust storms were called "black blizzards."
GeoByte6:Steinbeck's classic ^The Grapes of Wrath^ tells of one poverty-stricken Oklahoma family's migration to California to escape the devastation caused by the dust storms.
