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The Dust Bowl
Modern Machinery
Modern machinery made farming more profitable and changed the structure of the land for growing wheat. The result was more land speculation, more acreage turned over to wheat farming, and a blind faith that the good times wouldn’t end, but warning signs were evident.
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The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.