Fill in the Blanks Boll Weevil and DroughtOnline version SS8H8 The student will analyze the important events that occurred after World War I and their impact on Georgia. by Catherine Richardson 1 cities farms boll population bolls produce drought sharecroppers weevil harvest In the mid - 1910s , a little beetle called the arrived in Georgia . The one - fourth - inch - long bug lived by eating the buds ( or ) of cotton where the fibers are formed . To make matters worse , from 1924 to 1927 , Georgia suffered through a , which resulted in a poor . Georgia crops withered and died in the fields from thirst . When the land did not , some landowners forced off the land . Eventually , thousands of Georgians moved away from . Many rural counties lost and did not regain it . As farms declined , and towns gained populatio n
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