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The Dust Bowl occurred because of drought. It occurred because of farmers overusing the land and not rotating crops, planting the same things year after year. It occurred because of severe wind storms in the area.
The Dust Bowl was caused by an incredibly severe drought. The states most affected were Texas and Oklahoma.
Migrating to California.
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One major factor of the creation of the Dust Bowl was due to the climate, which was lack of rainfall and unnaturally hot weather. Another reason for the Dust Bowl was the fact that farmers were reusing the same land, causing to it lose nutrients and become dry. Also, due to World War I, farmers were forced to over produce crop, also causing a loss of nutrients in the soil.
Actually, most of the migration was west, to California, rather than to the east coast. In the 1930's, California was still to some extent an uncrowded frontier, with more room for new immigrants than the older states of the east coast.
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The Dust Bowl occurred because of drought. It occurred because of farmers overusing the land and not rotating crops, planting the same things year after year. It occurred because of severe wind storms in the area.
You are describing the Dust Bowl, a decade of severe drought in the west and southwest that ruined countless farmers.
The Dust Bowl was caused by an incredibly severe drought. The states most affected were Texas and Oklahoma.
Many farmers left the great plain because the dust bowl caused droughts and that was really bad for agriculture or farming
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Farmers, it was a severe drought which they had to deal with, thus, they had to move to CA or other states/places not affected by it. Read "The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck.
Migrating to California.
The Dust Bowl covered Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico. Farmers lost their fertile soil to the winds, and their farms to the banks.
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