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What is the Great Depression?
a) the name for an unnatural phenomenon that was given a name after World War I (WWI)
b) An event where there were lower-than-usual recordings of happiness
c) An economic downturn occurring after WWI that devastated the economy
d) A large decrease in elevation between two mountains in the northern parts of Georgia

What is a victory garden?
a) a garden within a competition where the best garden wins.
b) communal gardens that were planted for all colonists to plant, water, and take.
c) small family farms that were made to save food supplies for soldiers.
d) a small plot of land used in alternative warfare, creating a trap of tangle or vines to trip combatants.

What was Georgia's most important contribution to World War one?
a) Victory gardens
b) War bonds
c) Ship building
d) Military bases/training

How did the US react when WWI started?
a) remained neutral/isolationism
b) joined the allied powers
c) secretly supported both sides
d) joined the Central Powers

Years of Drought and the boll weevil led to
a) more jobs in all sectors
b) crop failure in GA, especially cotton, and collapse of the economy
c) increase in house sales
d) the re-election of Eugene Talmadge

Boll Weevil is...
a) Insects whose larvae feed on cotton crops; decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States
b) A small group of flying mammals whose appearence in the west, alongside the drought, was responsible for the dust bowl
c) airplanes, machine guns, poison gas
d) A nickname for small number of New Deal Program that existed on a bill to be passed because it was a 'rider' on a larger bill

How did Georgia support the war effort in World War I with the tools already at its disposal?
a) Their factories built tanks
b) their troops, already prepared to go, was sent to invade Mexico
c) Their Navy helped create the naval Blockade
d) Their Textile mills provided fabric for uniforms and badges

Which of these factors played a major role in Georgia feeling the effects of the Great Depression earlier than much of the US?
a) Dust Bowl; Anti-Semitism
b) Boll weevil; drought
c) low cotton prices; ''Black Tuesday''
d) Bank failures; Jim Crow Laws

List of Contributions from GA for WWI
a) Victory Gardens, Soldiers, Training Camps, Railroads, Textile Mills produced uniforms
b) airplanes, tanks, machine guns, poison gas, shotguns, mines
c) They chose to sit this war out.
d) Ships, Muskets, Trebuchets, saltpeter, cannons, pistols

Neutrality means what?
a) For a country to be in favor of war.
b) A country who wins a war.
c) For a country to not be involved in a war for any reason.
d) For a country who will bring another country into war.

What natural disaster occured to give Georgians' an early taste of the Great Depression?
a) The Drought of 1924
b) the 1920s strain of the Flu
c) Hurricane Ivy
d) A category 8 earthquake

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