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The Dust Bowl
Lessons
With better weather the suitcase farmers returned and the same process that caused the dust bowl started again in the 1940s. What lessons can we take from what happened during the Dust Bowl?
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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.