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 De

The origins of the agricultural poverty in Georgia in the 1920s were the long-term reliance on cash crop cultivation. Cash-crop production put enormous strain upon farmers to plant each acre of cotton available, gradually depleting the soil.(' Cash crops') (Crops grown to market instead of crops grown to eat or to feed cattle.)

Overdue, careless methods, such as intertwining (planting quick crops below large crops, increasing productivity but reducing soil) and furrowing without regard for the contours of the land, further draining top soil left the land squeezed out and gullied. Worse still, the destruction of many protected trees in the state has removed one of the most important barriers to deforestation in general. Earth, economy, and agriculture had been in Georgia at the beginning of the Great Depression.