Task: Choose one of these four insects. Create a monument for your city using the insect of your choice. Describe the monument and summarize why you chose that insect.

The Boll Weevil

The Boll Weevil Monument Enterprise, AL

Boll Weevil Insect that feeds on the cotton plant. Migrated from Central America to Georgia in 1915 Drastically reduced GA’s cotton crop. Due to the destruction farmers went from producing “5.2 million acres of cotton in 1914 to 2.6 million acres in 1923.

IMPACT (Economy and rural population): Millions of African-Americans moved to northern cities. Many sharecroppers & tenant farmers, moved to Georgia cities (Atlanta and Macon). Forced Georgians to diversify their economy. Cotton ceased to be Georgia’s primary agricultural product. Georgia’s manufacturing continued to develop, though slowed greatly by the Great Depression.

The Drought Georgia farmers suffered another natural disaster in the 1920’s and 1930’s Drought. Worst droughts 1924-1927 and 1930-1935. Severely impacted Georgia farmers’ ability to produce With the damage caused by the boll weevil and the droughts, Georgia began to suffer from a depression long before the rest of the United States.

Overview With the damage caused by the boll weevil and the droughts, Georgia began to suffer from a depression long before the rest of the United States.

Music Analyzation Activity We will use the worksheets handed out and fill in the information as we listen and analyze the following songs created during the early 1900’s. Boll Weevil Song by Brook Benton (1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL7CKtcJ8yU "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDL2JaYdWa0

Drought Video – if time http://www.gpb.org/georgiastorie s/stories/great_depression