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CBSE - History - Peasants and Farmers

Peasants and Farmers

Long Answer Type

Can you illustrate the reasons and affect of recurrent dust storms in the Great Plains in America? 

1. The expansion of wheat agriculture and overgrazing of the prairies were responsible for the dust bowl tragedy.

2. It was natural as well as man- made as he farmers recklessly uprooted all vegetations.

3. Tractors turn the soil over, and broken the sod into dust.

4. In 1930, terrific dust storms began to blow over southern plains which affected economic and social life of people.

5. The black blizzards were responsible for natural disaster where people were blinded, cattle suffocated to death. 

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