Review GA In WWI And Great Depression Question Preview (ID: 62748)

a) Producing B-29 bomber planes

b) Agricultural products to feed and clothe soldiers

c) military bases for training soldiers

d) military bases for the housing of POWs

a) A. Provided training grounds for soldiers

b) B. Georgia served as the central command for all allied forces

c) C. The state's factories produced all the ammunition of WWI

d) D. Georgia made no contributions to WWI

a) A. Provided the highest number of soldiers

b) B. Provided 5 military bases for training soldiers

c) C. Provided foods such as corn and cotton for making textiles.

d) Provided tanks, bomber planes, and weapons

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

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

a) both plants and animals.

b) plants, but no animals.

c) animals, but not plants.

d) neither plants nor animals.

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.

a) the high price of oil

b) the end of the gold rush

c) the ending of World War II

d) the crash of the stock exchange

a) boll weevil and drought

b) stock market crash

c) banks closing

d) overproduction

a) Easy credit

b) Federal Prohibition

c) Sound financial investments

d) Hoover won the election

a) The warm springs of Georgia seemed to help with his polio.

b) He had family that lived in Georgia.

c) He was born and raised in Georgia.

d) Roosevelt did not visit Georgia

a) Put young men to work planting trees, building roads and dams, and working in state parks

b) Took power away from privately owned electric companies, provided loans to provide more electrivity, build power plants

c) Helped raise the price of cotton in GA by paying farmers to grow less of it

d) provided retirement fund for elderly, and funds for disabled and unemployed

a) gained access to electricity through newly erected power lines.

b) received price reductions on the electricity they already purchased.

c) made profits by selling electricity to people living in urban areas.

d) were able to produce alcohol illegally and sell it for a substantial profit.

a) Helped raise the price of cotton in GA by paying farmers to grow less of it

b) Took power away from privately owned electric companies, provided loans to provide more electrivity, build power plants

c) provided retirement fund for elderly, and funds for disabled and unemployed

d) Put young men to work planting trees, building roads and dams, and working in state parks

a) It was a program created to help young workers get job training.

b) It was a program that provided unemployment benefits to unemployed workers.

c) It was a program that provided benefits to people 65 years and older.

d) was a program that helped poor families during the depression.

a) A Georgia Governor who hated New Deal Policies

b) A Spanish explorer who was in search of gold

c) A psycho who attacked FDR in broad daylight

d) A president who met with Natives to create National Parks