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The Dust Bowl
The Depression Comes to the Southern Plains
Wheat prices continue to fall and a drought begins, farmers elect a democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for president.
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The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.