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The Dust Bowl was a drought that strickened the Southern PLains region of the united states.They suffered from severe dust storms that had severe high winds. The choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska. Many people were killed from this tragic disaster. The Dust Bowl also killed the livestock and it had also failed crops across the entire region. This disaster drove many families on a desperate migration for search of work and better living conditions. Roughly 7,000 people died due to “dust pneumonia”. Dust pneumonia is when the lungs are filled with dust, that inflames the alveoli. The Dust Bowl was caused by several economic and agricultural factors. The Dust Bowl had taken place in the 1930s and lasted for about a decade. The

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