How did the Agricultural Adjustment Act help Georgia farmers

paid farmers not to produce certain crops in order to raise prices.

Which of the follow is NOT a result of the stock market crash of 1929?

Businesses increased production

What is a boll weevil?

An insect that eats cotton crops in the South

In Georgia, what was one of the main tasks undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps?

To build many of Georgia’s state parks

Which of the following was an effect of the Great Depression in Georgia?

More people left farms and moved to the cities

What caused Bank failures

Bank ran out of money when too many depositors wanted to make a withdrawl., too many people borrowed money they couldn't pay back

What impact did overproduction have on Georgia farmers?

It caused farm prices to drop and made it difficult to get out of debt

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1
What is a drought?
An over abundance of runoff
A lack of Rain
Excessive Rain
Dust storms
2
How did the Agricultural Adjustment Act help Georgia farmers
it ended farm subsidies
paid farmers to move to Georgia as part of the great migration.
paid farmers to produce more cotton
paid farmers not to produce certain crops in order to raise prices.
3
What year did the stock market crash?
1933
1923
1929
1919
4
Which of the follow is NOT a result of the stock market crash of 1929?
Banks ran out of money
People were forced to sell their homes
Savings accounts were emptied
Businesses increased production
5
Which New Deal program brought electric power to Georgia Farms?
Rural Electrification Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Social Security Act
Civilian Conservation Corp
6
1. A cotton farmer in Georgia right after World War I would have been most concerned about
Black Tuesday
Boll Weevil
Populism
Agricultural Adjustment Act
7
Which New Deal program put young men to work preserving the nation’s national resources?
Civilian Conservation Corp
Works Progress Administration
Rural Electrification Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act
8
Which event triggered the Great Depression?
Atlanta Race Riots of 1906
Stock Market Crash
Treaty ending WWI
1938 World's Fair
9
What is a boll weevil?
A person who moved north during the 1920’s
A farmer who refused to move to the city
Someone who buys more than they can save
An insect that eats cotton crops in the South
10
The boll weevil was an industrial pest which caused the slowdown of production
False
True
11
A farmer who grows more than one crop has done what?
Overproduced
sharecropped
diversified
subsidized
12
What was the name of President Roosevelt’s plan to help people during the Great Depression?
New Deal
Business Investment Plan
Great Migration
Consumerism
13
In Georgia, what was one of the main tasks undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps?
To capitalize on Georgia’s mineral resources
To build many of Georgia’s state parks
to restore old houses destroyed during the Civil War
to provide education to inner city youth
14
Overproduction, falling stock prices, and consumerism all contributed to what?
The New Deal
The Great Migration
The Great Depression
World War II
15
Which of the following was an effect of the Great Depression in Georgia?
More people left the cities for rural areas
More people left farms and moved to the cities
Cotton prices rose
Public Education thrived because people left farms to get an education
16
Where was the “Little White House” located in Georgia?
Lithia Springs
Macon
Warm Springs
Popular Springs
17
What caused Bank failures
Bank ran out of money when too many depositors wanted to make a withdrawl.
banks had more depositors than than they had borrowers
too many deposits at one time overloaded the system
too many people borrowed money they couldn't pay back
18
Which program provided money for retirement pay during and after the Great Depression?
Civilian Conservation Corp
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act
19
What impact did overproduction have on Georgia farmers?
almost wiped out farmers because most of them had diversified their crops
It raised farm prices and made them prosperous right before the Depression
It caused farm prices to drop and made it difficult to get out of debt
It had little effect on farmers because most of them did not by stocks

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