Dust Bowl Research Paper

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The Dust Bowl was a time during the 1930s. The Dust Bowl hit Texas and Oklahoma. The Dust Bowl also touched the borders of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. The Dust Bowl is because during those years there was a drought and they tried to plow the fields. They failed to see a way to prevent wind erosion, so that caused the Dust Bowl. The demand for economic demand for agricultural products played a part in the Dust Bowl because there was much of a demand for Ag products that the farmers kept on plowing in the fields and not caring much about protecting the land. The dust from the fields flew around at high velocity of air. This caused deaths by dust getting in the lungs. The dust would get into the house. They said that before they could eat

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