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What caused farmers to use pesticides on their crops so that they would not be ruined?
a) The boll weevil
b) The cotton gin
c) The new legislation
d) The new railroad construction

The Great Depression was caused by which of the following?
a) Bank Failures, Stock Market Crashing
b) Farmers not producing enough crops, Risky Loans
c) Stock Market Crashing, People not buying stocks
d) End of WWI, Bank Failures

What is laissez-faire?
a) When the government decided not to get involved in the country's economic problems
b) When the government tries to fix the country's economic problems
c) When the government programs have a negative affect on people
d) When the economy is so bad and it is the governments fault

Unemployed people and retired people benefit from which program?
a) Social Security
b) Civilian Conservation Corps
c) Agricultural Adjustment Act
d) Rural Electrification

What group of Georgians benefited most from the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
a) tenant farmers
b) property owners
c) blacks
d) alcoholics

How did the Civilian Conservation Corps benefit Georgia?
a) farmers were paid to produce less cotton
b) racial segregation was greatly reduced
c) it provided retirement pay for the elderly
d) it created more jobs and parks for Georgians

How were Georgia’s farmers helped by the New Deal?
a) The Agricultural Adjustment Act combined many smaller farms into fewer, larger ones.
b) The Social Security Agency agreed to pay them for any land they could not use.
c) Electricity was finally provided for many farms due to the push for rural electrification.
d) Cotton prices were reduced to the lowest they have been in years.

What affect did the drought have on the Georgia farmers?
a) It forced the farmers to move north to find industrial jobs
b) It increased tourism to the south
c) Farmers tried to keep growing cotton and stay in the South
d)

What was the name of the program FDR developed to end the Great Depression?
a) The New Deal
b) The New Program
c) The New Legislation
d) The New Plan

How did Eugune Talmadge's viewpoint hurt Georgia?
a) B/c he was against the New Deal many programs could not benefit GA like other states
b) B/c He supported the New Deal the programs helped Georgia
c) B/c he did not like the New Deal people did not like him
d)

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