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GA In WW1, Depression And The New Deal. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

A cotton farmer in Georgia right after World War I would have been most concerned about what?
a) Boll Weevils
b) The AAA
c) Black Tuesday
d) Populism

What is a boll weevil?
a) Someone who invests in southern industry
b) An African American who migrated North during the Depression
c) An insect that destroyed cotton crops in the south
d)

Overproduction, falling stock prices, and consumerism all contributed to what?
a) WW2
b) The Great Depression
c) The New Deal
d) Overpopulation

Which of the following was an effect of the Great Depression on Georgia?
a) Cotton prices rose
b) Public education thrived because people left farms to get an education.
c) More people left the cities for rural areas.
d) More people left farms and moved to the cities.

What impact did overproduction have on Georgia farmers?
a) It caused farm prices to drop and made it difficult for farmers to get out of debt.
b) It almost wiped out farmers because most of them had diversified their crops.
c) It had little effect on farmers because most of them did not buy stocks.
d)

Which event triggered the Great Depression?
a) The Treaty of Versailles
b) The end of The International Cotton expo
c) The Stock Market Crash of 1929
d) Atlanta Riot

Which of the following is not a result of the stock market crash in 1929?
a) People were forced to sell their homes.
b) Businesses increased production.
c) Banks ran out of money.
d) Savings accounts were emptied.

During the Great Depression, the federal government paid farmers subsidies (stipends) in an effort to ?
a) End segregation
b) Increase cotton production
c) Buy out farms.
d) End overproduction

Who was president of the United States when the Great Depression began?
a) Franklin D. Roosevelt
b) John F. Kennedy
c) Eugene Talmadge
d) Herbert Hoover

Which of the following areas saw the greatest decrease in population during the Great Depression?
a) Atlanta
b) Savannah
c) Northern cities
d) Rural Georgia

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 wanted the government to do as little as possible because he believed the economy would fix itself
d)

What was the name of President Roosevelt’s plan to help people during the Great Depression?
a) New Deal
b) CCC
c) AAA
d) The Great Migration

Which New Deal program helped raise the price of cotton in Georgia?
a) Agricultural Adjustment Act
b) Social Security Act
c) Works Progress Administration
d) Civilian Conservation Corps

A farmer who grows more than one crop has done what?
a) Subsidized
b) Overproduced
c) Diversified
d) Sharecropped

The New Deal came later to Georgia than many other southern areas because
a) Roosevelt did not like Georgia.
b) Georgians were not hit as hard by the Depression.
c) Republicans were too powerful in Georgia and would not back Roosevelt
d) Governor Eugene Talmadge resisted federal intervention in state affairs.

During WW1, Georgia had more what than any other state?
a) Military installations
b) B-29s
c) Military Training Camps
d) Victory Gardens

Which of the following is NOT a contribution to WW1 from Georgia?
a) Georgians melted old ships from Savnnah ports to make bullets
b) Victory Gardens
c) Textile mills
d) Crops for troops

True or False, Railroads were used to transport ammunition, equipment and soldiers to ports.
a) IDK
b) True
c) False
d)

Which New Deal program put young men to work preserving the nation’s national resources?
a) The AAA
b) The REA
c) The CCC
d) The SSA

The SSA DID NOT provide relief for what group during The Great Depression?
a) The unempolyed
b) The elderly over 65
c) Benficiaries of the deceased
d) Veterans

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