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Overproduction in industry and agriculture, too much credit, and the stock market crash were all causes of...
a) World War II
b) The Dust Bowl
c) The Great Depression
d) The Smoot Hawley Tariff
How did the boll weevil MOSTLY affect Georgia's economy?
a) It caused a major upset to Georgia's cash-crop economy
b) It forced Georgia to have a manufacturing economy
c) It caused rice to be Georgia's only money-making crop
d) It gave more economic opportunity to the pest controller
Georgia experienced its worst recorded drought during 1930 and 1931. What conclusion can you come to as to how the drought affected Georgia?
a) It brought many northern investors to Georgia so that they could buy up large tracks of mostly empty farmland.
b) It made rural farmers totally change the cash crops they grew to ones that required much smaller amounts of water.
c) It totally changed Georgia's economy from one that depended on cash crops to one that depended on manufacturing.
d) It made the lives of rural farmers even more difficult, adding to the problems of the Great Depression and the boll weevil.
Who was the president of the United States when the Great Depression began?
a) Franklin D. Roosevelt
b) John F. Kennedy
c) Herbert Hoover
d) Eugene Talmadge
Which of the following best describes President Roosevelt's approach to dealing with the Great Depression?
a) He wanted farmers to produce more cotton so that they could get out of debt.
b) He believed in using government programs to end the crisis
c) He believed that states should be responsible for solving their own problems without help from the national government.
d) He wanted the government to do a little as possible because he believed the economy would fix itself.
Which New Deal program provided money for people who were out of work as well as retirement pay during and after the Great Depression
a) Civilian Conservation Corps
b) Rural Electrification Administration
c) Agricultural Adjustment Act
d) Social Security Act
How did the Agricultural Adjustment Act help Georgia's farmers?
a) It paid farmers to produce more cotton so they could make more money.
b) It ended subsidies
c) It paid farmers to not produce certain crops in an effort to raise farm prices
d) It paid farmers to move to Georgia as part of the Great Migration.
Which New Deal program put young men to work preserving the nation's national resources?
a) Agricultural Adjustment Act
b) Civilian Conservation Corps
c) Social Security Act
d) Rural Electrification Administration
Which program brought electric power to Georgia's farms?
a) Social Security Act
b) Rural Electrification Administration
c) Civilian Conservation Corps
d) Agricultural Adjustment Act
Which of the following would FDR and Eugene Talmadge have most agreed on?
a) Social Security
b) Farmers needing relief during the Great Depression
c) The federal government's proper role during an economic crisis
d) Georgia needing the New Deal's programs to help it economically
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