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Dust Bowl





The dust bowl occurred during the 1930s hence the nickname the "dirty thirties ;) ". It was a series of severe dust storms due to a draught. It damaged U.S. ecology and agriculture by completely destroying farms and farmland. This problem occurred because for the past decade farmers in the Great Plains conducted extensive deep plowing ;). This process pulled out ;) all of the deep rooted plants that held the solid together. This event covered 100,000,000 acres of land and forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes.

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