What did many people do in the areas affected by the dust bowl?
Before President Roosevelt was elected in 1933, people in the dust bowl would pack up everything they owned and leave for California, where they faced long hours, low wages, wretched slums, and backbreaking labor. Yet after Roosevelt became president, he devised the New Deal that required farmers to plant legumes like soybeans, peanuts, and sweet potatoes. In order for crops to live they must have sun, soil, water, and nitrogen that comes from the soil. Plants like cotton or wheat take absorb too much nitrogen, which causes the soil to become sandy and not fertile for farming. This was called the dust bowl because the worn out soil was reduced to the consistency of dust because farmers grew nitrogen hogging plants to help with industry. What the New deal did was help plant good plants, the legumes. Legumes, like soybeans, peanuts, and sweet potatoes release nitrogen as well as absorb it. With the barren wasteland the Dust Bowl was now, these legumes helped revive the soil so the farmer
