World War I & GeorgiaOnline version SS8H8 Georgia during WW1 and after to include the Contributions, Boll Weevil and Drought. Match all the statement that relate to each other. by Andrea Height 1 Boll Weevil 2 Great Depression 3 Drought 4 GA's Contribution to WW1 traveled from mexico all the way to Georgia destroyed thousands of acres of Georgia cotton farms beetle laid its eggs in the cotton boll and larvae feed on the plant high unemployment, low economic activity caused by people borrowing more money than they can repay factories and farms overproduced caused by stock speculation high tarrifs keep other countries from buying and selling caused by stock market crash lack of rainfall over extended period of time occurred in GA between 1924-1927 severely impact GA's ability to grow agricultural products farmers went into debt and sharecroppers moved to urban areas military installations citizens were encouraged to plant victory gardens railroads transported soldiers, weapons and supplies over 100,000 men and women lent themselves to the war effort
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