What two events occurred causing Georgia’s (and the rest of the South’s) economy to be weakened long before the beginning of the Great Depression?
The boll weevil and a drop in cotton prices
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What New Deal program was responsible for projects in Georgia such as Roosevelt State park, the Tybee Island seawall, the Savannah River levee in Augusta and Macon’s airport?
CCC
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The United States entered World War II when Japan attacked
Pearl Harbor
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What was Carl Vinson’s greatest contribution to Georgia’s economy during World War II?
He passed legislation in Congress that resulted in military projects that employed thousands of people in Georgia.
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Besides the boll weevil and falling cotton prices, Georgia’s cotton farmers were also hurt in the 1920’s by
Drought
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What group of Georgians benefited most from the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
property owners
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What type of aircraft was built at the Bell Aircraft plant in Marietta during WWII?
B-29 bombers
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Why did Franklin Roosevelt spend so much time in Georgia during his Presidency?
Roosevelt bathed in the mineral waters of Warm Springs to ease the pain of his polio.
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What were some of the main factors causing the Great Depression?
speculation in the stock market, instability of banks, and overproduction of manufactured goods
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What did the New Deal’s rural electrification project (REA) do for Georgia’s farmers?
It provided loans to farmers’ cooperatives so they could run power lines into rural areas.
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What was the major contribution of Georgia during World War II?
Numerous military bases were established to train soldiers, patrol the Atlantic coast and house prisoners of war.
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Why did the authors of the Articles of Confederation want a federal government with little power?
They had just freed themselves from the domination of a strong powerful government in Great Britain.
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What Georgia governor served during the Great Depression and spent a great deal of his time speaking out against the New Deal, blacks and metropolitan areas?
Eugene Talmadge
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What was the purpose of the Social Security Act?
To create a system of retirement and unemployment insurance for most American workers.
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Where in Georgia were Liberty ships built?
Brunswick and Savannah
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Henry McNeal Turner was expelled from his seat in the Georgia state legislature based on the grounds that he did not
have the constitutional right to hold a political office.
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What were some of the purposes of the New Deal?
to reform defects in the economy, to improve the standard of living for Americans and to relieve the suffering of the unemployed
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Why did the United States start a lend-lease system for war equipment during World War II?
Our allies ran out of money for purchasing the military equipment they needed.
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Because of Senator Richard Russell’s sponsorship of a program for schoolchildren, what nickname did he earn?
Father of the school lunch program
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What law forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?