Dust Bowl Dbq

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1) These grasslands were converted to wheat fields and were very successful at first. More and more farmers came to plow these lands with the idea that soil is the only inexhaustable resource. Droughts began to insue which made farmers plant even more than they were already because they had the idea that next year will be a better one. Due to the over plowing of these farmers without good agricultural practices, they managed to destroy the ground cover that held the soil together which lead to many dust storms. Dust storms plus droughts caused this time to be terrible. Crops were not growing and the dust were killing people. These things contributed to the Dust Bowl.

2) a) They used propaganda by saying that certain cities were flourishing