Question

Georgia experienced its worst recorded drought during 1930 and 1931. What conclusion can you make as to how the drought affected Georgia?

A) It brought many northern investors to Georgia so that they could buy up large tracks of mostly empty farmland.
B) It made rural farmers totally change the cash crops they grew to ones that required much smaller amounts of water.
C) It totally changed Georgia’s economy from one that depended on cash crops to one that depended on manufacturing.
D) It made the lives of rural farmers even more difficult, adding to the problems of the Great Depression and the boll weevil.

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

The drought occurred right at the time of the Great Depression and the introduction of the boll weevil to Georgia. It made the lives of rural farmers even more difficult, adding to the problems of the Great Depression and the boll weevil.

Answer 2

The correct option is D

Life for farmers changed radically, the drought produced the great Dust Bowl, which forced farmers to change crops, even to migrate to other states due to the sterility of the land to cultivate. All this added to the economic context that the country was going through due to the crisis of 1929. All this propiciono a big problem for farmers who changed their way of life radically