LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The boll weevil is a beetle which feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Thought to be native to Central Mexico, it migrated into the United States from Mexico in the late 19th century and had infested all U.S. cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry and the people working in the American South.
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A style of dance music popular in the 1920s. Containing a lot of Improv.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is a Boll Weevil? A common name for an insect that infests cotton plants is the boll weevil. The adult boll weevils are reddish-brown, gray, or almost black in color and are normally less than 0.24 inches long. In addition, the adult has a long snout and two spurs on the first joint.
Detailed explanation-2: -The cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis, was the most important pest of cotton in much of America’s Cotton Belt. Fortunately, it was eradicated in the United States by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program in cooperation with state agencies and cotton farmers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Boll weevils (named for the type of beetle which feeds on cotton buds) was an American political term used in the mid-and late-20th century to describe conservative Democrats.
Detailed explanation-4: -The boll weevil feeds on cotton pollen, but does its damage by laying eggs on cotton flower buds, called “squares, ” or on the young developing cotton boll (the songs often address boll weevil as a “he” or “Mr.” but clearly the crop damage is done by the female and her young).