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Black Blizzard In 1930s America
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In the 1930s area’s like Texas, Kansas and others were hit by hundreds of storms all these storms together made up one huge natural disaster It was the biggest natural disaster in Americas history. In the 1900s to 1930s, so many families in listed parcels of land and the states’s These families had built farms plus built a life where they were . In the 1931s there was a very bad drought that fell across the middle of the nation, Americans were already suffering because of the stock market crashing in 1920 . Also the great depression was at its point in time it was a huge tragedy, but Most farmers had the time didn’t have income so they couldn’t pay for their mortgages

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