ISEE Middle Level Reading Comprehension Quiz
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was an environmental catastrophe with devastating consequences for the American plains. The primary cause was a prolonged and severe drought that gripped the region, turning fertile topsoil into dust. This natural event was exacerbated by years of poor farming techniques; farmers had plowed up the native, deep-rooted grasses that normally held the soil in place. As a result of these conditions, massive dust storms, known as "black blizzards," swept across the plains, blotting out the sun and carrying away millions of tons of topsoil. The ecological devastation led to a widespread agricultural collapse, forcing hundreds of thousands of families to abandon their farms and migrate westward in search of work, a migration that profoundly shaped the social and cultural landscape of the United States.
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