During the 1920s, rural Southern cotton farmers faced all of the following crises EXCEPTGroup of answer choicesDrought and floodingFalling cotton pricesAn increase in the cost of food and clothingOverproduction

All of the following occurred in the American South during World War I EXCEPTGroup of answer choicesA steep drop in the price of cottonThe beginning of the "Great Migration" of black southerners out of the SouthA boom in the oil and chemical industriesAn influx of federal dollars for shipyards and military bases

One of the biggest threats to cotton fields in the South during the nineteenth century wasMultiple choice question.freezing winters.the army worm.fire.locusts.

What resulted in a drop in labor demand and increased crop production in farming during the 1920s?The switch from horse and human power to machine powerThe impact of investment bankersThe drop in labor requirements for farm managementThe switch from small-farm operations to large-farm operations

Identify the key regional experiences of farmers in the South and the West and which experiences they had in common.Drag each item on the left to its matching item on the right.mainly relied on sharecropping and tenant farmingbelieved their plight was caused by high freight rates charged by railroad companies and excessive interest rates on loans.interruptions to cotton exportation led many farmers to go into debt and threatened them with the loss of their landblamed the fiscal policies of the federal government for driving down farm prices.mortgaged land to purchase equipment, seed, and fertilizerfarmers in the Westfarmers in the Southfarmers in both regions

The Panic of 1819 was caused by theMultiple choice question.large wave of immigrants that year.collapse of cotton prices.rise of the tariff on foreign goods.dramatic increase in the price of enslaved people.