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What was a cause of the “Dust Bowl?”

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Soil degradation

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Soil degradation.

Poor farming practices (breaking the native prairie, removing deep-rooted grasses) combined with drought and high winds led to severe topsoil erosion and the Dust Bowl.