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What was the cause of the dust bowl in the 1930s

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The Dust Bowl was caused by people getting rid of the tall grasses that covered Texas´s plains, these grasses had roots deep into the soil that held on to the soil preventing it from flying away in the plains great wind speeds, these grasses´s roots also held onto water and nutrients making the soil very fertile. Another thing that caused the Dust Bowl was it´s hot weather and poor agriculture techniques.

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a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
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