Question

What did the U.S. government do to help farming in Texas after the dust

storms settled?
Mark only one answer
they paid farmers $5000 to make up for their lost profits
they hired workers to plant trees and reshape the land
they trained the farmers to grow crops in drier climates
they bought up the farmers' land and sold it piece by piece

Answer 1

As part of Roosevelt's New Deal, Congress established the Soil Erosion Service and the Prairie States Forestry Project in 1935. These programs put local farmers to work planting trees as windbreaks on farms across the Great Plains.