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Why was the Dust Bowl considered a man-made disaster? (Paragraph and restate the

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The Dust Bowl was both a manmade and natural disaster.
Lured by record wheat prices and promises by land developers that “rain follows the plow,” farmers powered by new gasoline tractors over-plowed and over-grazed the southern Plains.
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