The major effect of the teapot dome scandal was that many people in the United States lost their trust in the US government, since for the first time ever a Cabinet member was convicted of accepting bribes.
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
I believe it is fertile land. Sorry if wrong
