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Meet some of the people who lived in the Great Plains.
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Modern machinery made wheat farming more efficient and profitable.
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The stock market crashed on what came to be called Black Tuesday.
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Wheat prices continue to fall and a drought begins the farmers look to FDR for relief.
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The Dust Bowl was a decade-long natural catastrophe of biblical proportions.
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Modern machinery made farming more profitable.
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As the Great Depression sets in, farmers on the Great Plains begin to feel its effects.
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Learn about the two types of plows farmers used.
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Learn how modern machinery made farming more efficient.
