What Union strategy caused the most economic damage to the Confederacy during the Civil War?
The blockade of Confederate seaports
100
What organization was formed at the end of the Civil War to help freedmen adjust to their new life?
Freedmen's Bureau
100
What secret white supremacy organization re-emerged after the Leo Frank lynching?
the KKK
100
What were 3 reasons that the U.S. entered World War I on the side of the allies?
1) the sinking of the British ship Lusitania 2) German submarine attacks on American ships 3) anti-German propaganda by the American press 4) the Zimmerman telegram
100
What was the cash-and-carry policy FDR and Congress passed to assist Great Britain before the US entered World War II?
Lend-Lease Act
200
Why was Atlanta important to the Confederacy?
It was a manufacturing and transportation center.
200
Who had the simplest Reconstruction plan - Lincoln, Johnson, Congress, or the confedearcy?
Abraham Lincoln
200
What Georgia leader described Georgia as the "New South?"
Henry Grady
200
What impact did the boll weevil and drought have on Georgia in the 1920's?
It put the Georgia and other southern states in an economic depression long before the rest of the nation.
200
What was the immediate cause of the US entering World War II?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
300
If Sherman's March to the Sea is associated with the end of the Civil War, what similar event is associated with the end of World War II?
America's use of atomic weapons against Japan
300
Describe the difference between sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
Sharecroppers owned nothing but their labor, while tenant farmers usually owned farm animals and equipment to use in farming other people's land.
300
What U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896 made "separate bu equal" the law of the nation?
Plessy v. Ferguson
300
List at least 5 causes of the Great Depression
1-too much personal debt; 2-factories had overproduced causing a fall in priices; 3-poor banking practices resulted in loans going unpaid; 4-speculation in the stock market; 5-runs on banks and bank closings; 6-the laissez-faire attitude about government's role in business
300
What Georgian served in the US House of Representatives for 50 years and was known as the "father of the two-ocean navy"?
Carl Vinson
400
Put the following events of the Civil War in correct chronological order: Gettsyburg, Emancipaton Proclamation, Appomattox, secession, March to the Sea.
Secession, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, March to the Sea, and Appomattox.
400
What symbol(s) could be used to represent the New South?
a textile mill, a pine tree, a mine
400
What was the major difference between W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington?
Washington tolerated segregation as long as blacks were given equal opportunity at jobs and education. Dubois believed segregation would end only when blacks decided to take direct action for their civil rights.
400
Which Georgia governor disliked FDR's New Deal programs?
Eugene Talmadge
400
What name is given to the laws passed after Reconstruction that led to segregation?
Jim Crow laws
500
Name at least one advantage the Confederacy (South) had over the North during the Civil War?
They were fihting on home soil; their soldiers were more passionate about the reason they were fighting; the Confederacy had better military leadership.
500
What woman was best known for prison reform, women's suffrage, education reform, and temperance in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
Rebecca Latimer Felton
500
What man during the Progressive era was a leader of the Populist movement, implemented the rural free delivery bill, and was supported by farmers and factory workers?
Tom Watson
500
What is the main purpose of the following New Deal programs: REA, AAA, SSA and CCC
REA-created cooperatives to bring electricity to rural areas
AAA-paid subsidies to landowners to take land out of production in hopes of raising crop prices
SSA-created a retirement and unemployment insurance program for many Americans
CCC-provided young unemployed men with jobs on construction projects.
500
What American President spent time in Warm Springs, Georgia to soothe his pain from polio?