The purpose of social security is to

create a system of retirement and unemployment insurace

Georgians did not feel the impact of the stock market crash because

the state was already in a depression

What 2 events weakened Georgia's economy long before the Great Depression hit the South?

the boll weevil and the drop in cotton prices

What New Deal program resulted from President FDR's view of rural Georgia without electricity?

Rural Electrification Authority

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1
What Georgia governor served during the Great Depression and spoke out against the New Deal?
Ellis Arnall
Eurith Rivers
Eugene Talmadge
Richard Russell
2
Which major event immediately followed World War I in the United States
Cold War
Vietnam War
World War II
Great Depression
3
Which group of Georgians failed to benefit from the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
wealthy
property owners
tenant farmers
renters
4
Which of these did GA not contribute to WWI
Railroads
Buying war bonds
Grew Victory Gardens
Military Training Camps
5
The purpose of social security is to
create a system of retirement and unemployment insurace
create a system to save the banks from collaspe
give all workers in the US a savings plan for the future
protect the finance sector of the government
6
Georgians did not feel the impact of the stock market crash because
banks were protected by state insurance
the state prohibited investing in the stock market
the state was already in a depression
citizens had little money invested in the stock market
7
Speculating in the stock market and overproducing farm products led to what event?
the Great Society
World War II
the Great Depression
Hoover's re-election
8
What 2 events weakened Georgia's economy long before the Great Depression hit the South?
the boll weevil and the drop in cotton prices
prohibition and disenfranchisement
election of Woodrow Wilson and WWI
child labor laws and county unit system
9
What New Deal program resulted from President FDR's view of rural Georgia without electricity?
Social Security
Rural Electrification Authority
Farmers Electric Alliance
Georgia Power Corps
10
Besides the boll weevil, Georgia cotton farmers in the 1920s were hurt by
tornadoes
fires
frosts
droughts
11
Which group of Georgians benefited most from the Agricultral Adjustment Act
blacks
industrial leaders
property owners
tenant farmers
12
What was the "final blow" that led to President Wilson to ask Congress to declare war?
attack on Pearl Harbor
anti-German propaganda in the United States
attacks on American Merchant ships
Zimmerman telegraph
13
Which New Deal program provided jobs for young single men builidng forest trails and roads?
Social Security
YMCA
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Civilian Conservation Corps

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