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Dust Everywhere
Money to be Made
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A New Era
Nothing Comes Close
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Where was the "Dust Bowl" located?
Colorado,Kansas,New Mexico,Oklahoma and Texas. (Great Plains)
100
What was Ike's house like when he was growing up?
A dugout.
100
When were the grain prices decreasing?
1930's
100
How many miles wide was the storm?
Hundreds of miles.
100
How many people fled to other places during the Dust Bowl?
2.5 million people.
200
What animal was almost hunted to extinction?
Buffalo.
200
What did the trade for supplies?
Milk and Cream!
200
How did Ike earn extra money?
By helping neighbors turn their Prairie Land into farmable soil.
200
How many millions of tons dust dumped on Chicago?
12 million tons.
200
After Ike graduated from High School what was his job?
Working on railroads and traveling the country.
300
When the dust hit, where did it hit?
Kitchen,dining room,bedroom,nails and mouths,
300
What did Ike's mother pour over the wall to kill the bugs?
Boiling water.
300
How did they plant decide to plant more grain?
They ripped out more and more grassland to make room.
300
After the Dust Bowl was everything restored? (back to normal)
Yes.
300
What war did Ike fight in?
World War II.
400
Where do the buffalo mostly wander?
Thick grasses, small bands of American Indians.
400
On Winter night's what did the family burn to keep them warm?
Cow dung.
400
Soon, millions of acres were transformed into a new_______..
Landscape.
400
Who said it would be the end of the world?
Prairie residents.
400
Many year's after working where did Ike return to?
Baca County
500
What would farmer's smear the mouth's with?
Vaseline.
500
What did Ike give to his mom?
Every penny he owned.
500
When the prairies vanished they were replaced by ________?
Endless rows of corn and wheat.
500
When did the world go black?
Black Sunday.
500
How old is Ike today?
90 years old.