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Georgia and the Great Depression
Georgia and the Great Depression
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1
The day the stock market crashed is called:
Black Friday
Sad Saturday
Black Tuesday
Manic Monday
2
What insect ravaged cotton crops in the southduring the 1920’s?
Cotton beetle
Flying cricket
Cockroach
Boll weevil
3
Which is NOT true of Eugene Talmadge?
Served three terms as governor
White supremacist
Supported New Deal in GA
Fired those who supported integration
4
What decade before the Great Depression wasknown for its good times?
Victorious Teens
Roaring Twenties
Terrible Twenties
Wartime Teens
5
The idea that the government does not have tointerfere with failing businesses is called:
Laissez-faire
Labor laws
The Great Depression
Hands-off
6
The time of PresidentRoosevelt was known as the “government by __”because of the many programs.
Act
Agency
Program
Alphabet
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The stock market crash did not fully effectGeorgia because:
Farmers and businessmen did not have much moneyto invest
Investing was illegal in GA
Men were still fighting in WWI
Banks were federally insured
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Government programs that relieved the social and economic hardships of the Great Depression:
The Freedman’s Bureau
The Georgia Constitution
The New Deal
The Improvement Project
9
What was a short term effect of the Drought of1924?
Cotton grew in the dry weather.
It killed many boll weevils.
Farmers were able to grow different crops.
Business and industry grew.
10
During the Great Depression, the name given tothe villages made from trash and junk were called
Tent towns
Hoovervilles
Smellvilles
Trash towns
11
Which one of these events did NOT weaken thesouth’s economy before the Great Depression?
The Drought of 1924
The boll weevil
World War I
12
Mary,Stephanie, and Carolin will all be able to vote one day because of which amendment?
Thirteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
13
Which president created the New Deal programs?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Abraham Lincoln
Herbert Hoover
14
What president did many Americans blame for theGreat Depression?
Andrew Jackson
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt