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The Dust Bowl

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The Dust Bowl Season 1, Episode 2: Reaping the Whirlwind

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Black Sunday was only halfway through the decade-long crisis. The storms continued. The Great Depression still affected people. Government programs were instituted to help. Learn what FDR’s administration did to try to keep the southern Plains from becoming a North American Sahara desert. Find out why some residents finally decided they had to give up and move somewhere else and how some held on. Watch The Dust Bowl Season 1, Episode 2 Reaping the Whirlwind in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of The Dust Bowl Season 1, Episode 2 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

2 episodes
Season 1
The Great Plow Up
1

The Great Plow Up

The grasslands of the southern Plains were rapidly turned into wheat fields. Then following the early years of the drought, storms killed crops and livestock and literally rearranged the landscape. The worst storm of them all was on April 14, 1935—Black Sunday—a searing experience for everyone caught in it, including a young songwriter from Pampa, Texas, named Woody Guthrie.

118 min
Reaping the Whirlwind
2

Reaping the Whirlwind

Black Sunday was only halfway through the decade-long crisis. The storms continued. The Great Depression still affected people. Government programs were instituted to help. Learn what FDR’s administration did to try to keep the southern Plains from becoming a North American Sahara desert. Find out why some residents finally decided they had to give up and move somewhere else and how some held on.

118 min