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How did the Dust Bowl affect people living in the Great Plains? What did they have

to do in response to it?
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Crops began to fail with the onset of drought in 1931, exposing the bare, over-plowed farmland. Without deep-rooted prairie grasses to hold the soil in place, it began to blow away. Eroding soil led to massive dust storms and economic devastation

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