CHAPTER 17
What event BEST describes the immediate cause of World War I?
A. Germany invaded England.
B. Russia sank a French passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
C. The archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
D. President Woodrow Wilson ordered the American invasion of Mexico
C. The archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
Which event led the United States into World War II?
A. passing of the Lend-Lease Act
B. Zimmerman Telegram
C. sinking of the Lusitania
D. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
D. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
THIS GOVERNOR believed that Georgians should be hard working and self-reliant and not dependent
on government. He was opposed to raising taxes and instead campaigned to cut state spending.
EUGENE TALMADGE
TRUE OR FALSE: The Civilian Conservation Corps was a program to offer military training to young men at Georgia’s numerous army bases.
False, the CCC was a program to put young men to work in rural and forest areas. Their work included
planting trees, preventing soil erosion, building dams, and other conservation projects. CCC workers
lived in army-like camps but not on military bases.
The title of the novel Margaret Mitchell wrote.
GONE WITH THE WIND
Why is it sometimes said that rural Georgians never realized that a Great
Depression occurred during the late 1920s and 1930s?
A. Many rural Georgians were geographically isolated without access to
national news.
B. The Great Depression had little impact on the state.
C. Many rural Georgians were farmers and had struggled economically for
years.
D. Rural agricultural areas continued to prosper throughout the Great
Depression.
C. Many rural Georgians were farmers and had struggled economically for
years.
How was Georgia significant in the life of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
A. Georgia politicians led anti-Roosevelt opposition in Congress during the
1930s.
B. FDR often visited Warm Springs, Georgia to treat his complications from polio
C. Georgia’s electoral college votes secured his election as president in 1932
D. He tested New Deal programs before spreading them nationwide.
B. FDR often visited Warm Springs, Georgia to treat his complications from polio
In 1922, THIS PERSON became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
REBECCA LATIMER FELTON
TRUE OR FALSE: Social Security was a New Deal program to provide elderly Americans a government pension in their older years.
TRUE
What does LAISSEZ-FAIRE mean?
(200 extra points if you remember what it literally means... I am asking what it means in the government aspect)
1.The policy of government keeping its hands off business, based on a belief that business can perform best without government regulation.
2. Literally means "Let it be"
Try and list the reasons why Georgia experienced an
agricultural depression after World War I.
(There are 3 answers... so 300 points per right answer. Do not over complicate your answer)
Drop in cotton prices, spread of the boll weevil, and a historic drought.
Integration was the beginning of the undoing of WHAT court case?
Plessy v. Ferguson
THIS PRESIDENT believed the government should not interfere with the economy. THIS PRESIDENT, on the other hand, believed the government should become directly involved in the economy to end the depression and prevent future ones.
(500 points per right answer)
HERBERT HOOVER, FDR
TRUE OR FALSE: The Agricultural Adjustment Act was an effort to reduce the price of food during the depression by encouraging farmers to raise more food crops.
False, the AAA sought to raise food prices so that farmers would have more income to buy manufactured goods. To raise farm income, the AAA paid farmers not to grow crops, raise pigs, or produce milk. The AAA also bought farm products to distribute to people on relief.
What were the three aims of the New Deal? (looking for the category names, not the specifics)
RELIEF, RECOVERY, REFORM
Which of the following controversial tactics was NOT used by Governor Eugene Talmadge during his first term to force his policies through the Georgia state
government?
A. jailing officials who disagreed with him
B. suspending officials from their jobs
C. declaring martial law and using the National Guard to remove officials
D. with holding salaries from officials
A. jailing officials who disagreed with him
What two events are credited with ending World War II in the Pacific?
(400 Points per right answer)
The dropping of atomic bombs on
HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI
in Japan in 1945.
WHO caused the University of Georgia and other white public colleges in Georgia lose their accreditation in 1941?
GOVERNOR EUGENE TALMADGE
THIS NEW DEAL PROGRAM WAS PUT IN PLACE to help business, industry, and employees. Attempted to make businesses operate according to strict codes of conduct. The codes specified how much certain companies would produce, the prices they would charge, and the wages they would pay. Their goal was to control production and raise prices. The codes outlawed such practices as unfair advertising and price discrimination. The codes also set minimum wages and maximum working hours for each industry. Child labor was prohibited.
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
What is the vocabulary term that matches this definition?
Attempting to make money quickly by buying something at a low price and then selling it at a profit as its value increases.
SPECULATING
EXPLAIN WHY THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE:
During the late 1920s, many Americans feared that the booming economy was about to end, so they began selling their stock and investing in safer ways, such as bank savings accounts.
Until the stock market crashed in October 1929, most Americans believed that the boom would
be ongoing and that stock prices would only continue to rise.
During World War II, the Bell Aircraft Company operated a large plant that produced B-29s, American’s largest military bomber at the time.What city in Georgia was this plant located in?
MARIETTA
THIS GOVERNOR supported constitutional amendments and new laws that removed the governor from boards that ran the state’s public schools and university system, took away the governor’s power to remove certain elected officials from office or to strike salaries from the budget, and transferred the power to pardon convicted criminals from the governor to a new board of pardons and paroles. During his term, the power of the governor to veto constitutional amendments was revoked.
GOVERNOR ARNALL
TRUE OR FALSE: The Rural Electrification Administration was a program to build hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River to provide low-cost electricity throughout the South.
False, the Tennessee Valley Authority built hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The REA was not involved in creating power but rather distributing electrical power to rural areas of the country.
WHAT DID THE ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM SAY?
WHO WAS IT FROM?
WHO WAS IT TO?
(500 points per right answer)
It was from Germany to Mexico... and it suggested that if Mexico went to war against the United States it might get back some of the territory it lost in 1847.