Question

Which of the following most hurt South Carolina's economy during the Great Depression?
a. the lack of electricity and water in rural areas
b. the closing of textile mills and reduced agricultural production
c. the organization of wood yards that gave away free wood
d. the spread of diseases, such as tuberculosis

Answer 1

A.

Answer 2

are you sure

Answer 3

is it A @ILovePuppiesLol

Answer 4

No direct answers please

Answer 5

Lol I'm training @rebeccaxhawaii to be a good helper in history, which do u think it is

Answer 6

I just need to know if it is A

Answer 7

During the Great Depression, South Carolina was adversely affected not only by the same financial / economic problems that so hurt the rest of the US, but also by the destruction of its main crop -- cotton -- by the boll weevil parasite. Other cotton growing states had to cope with the same boll weevil invasion (it is a bug that came from South America, and arrived in the US during the 1920's), but S Carolina's economy was probably more dependent upon the cotton crop than that of any other state.

So it was a double-whammy for South Carolina. As everywhere else in the US, the financial crisis meant that credit dried up and businesses collapsed, throwing many thousands out of work. But in S Carolina the main agricultural crop was also being destroyed by a completely unrelated bug invasion. So the rural population of the state suffered terrible hardships. And, with the rural economy devastated, the towns and cities were hurt too, because the farmers no longer had the means to pay for anything at the city stores.

After many years of extreme hardship for the rural population of South Carolina, the federal government finally devised programs like the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which was established 1937. This was intended to provide loans and assistance for farmers, and other agricultural improvements. And the FSA may have helped a little.

Even so, the sad fact is that it took two completely accidental factors to finally begin pulling S Carolina out of deep depression. First, from the early 1940's, with WW2 raging in Europe, factories in the northern states became so desperate for people to work on machines that may people from South Carolina were able to move north and find jobs that paid well. Second, the development of new agricultural pesticides like DDT finally gave cotton farmers the means to kill off the boll weevils that had been destroying their crops.

Answer 8

What is ur reasoning. Why do u think it is A

Answer 9

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