Asked by Makayla

What term best explains the cause of the Dust Bowl?

farmers who had fought in WWI returned home injured and were unable to continue working their land and the region went unfarmed
Years of poor farming practices and drought caused farmland to fail
Large storms blew sand from the southwest that destroyed Great Plains Farms.
Pollution from steel manufacturing plants got into rivers which killed off large areas of farmland

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Years of poor farming practices and drought caused farmland to fail.

(Deep plowing of native grasses combined with extended drought removed soil anchors, producing severe erosion and the dust storms of the Dust Bowl.)