Baking powder is made of baking soda and the right amount of acid to react with the soda (it also includes corn starch to keep the ingredients from prematurely reacting in the privacy of their container).
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The Dust Bowl affected the agricultural areas and damaged cash crops, that most farmers made a living on. Also severe droughts were held that affected the land in the southern plains. Economy was declining as most farmers were poor.
Effects of the Dust Bowl. Image 2: Oklahoma Family Heading to California. Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection LC-USF34-000963-E. Famers and landholders in the Great Plains had to migrate in the 1930s during a period of drought, irregular rain, and erosion.