Question 1-5
1. How did Georgia contribute to WWI?
1. GA had more training camps than any other state
6. What was the single biggest reason that hurt cotton farms?
6. The Boll Weevil
11. Where did the Boll Weevil first enter the United States?
11. Texas
16. What was the percentage of Americans without jobs during the Great Depression?
16. 25 percent ; 1 out of 4 people did not have a job
1. How did Georgia contribute to WWI?
1. GA had more training camps than any other state
2. Which Georgia fort was designated as a prisoner of war camp?
2. Fort Oglethorpe
7. What region of the United States was most affected by the infestation of the boll weevil?
7. The Southeast
12. What are the four causes of the Great Depression?
12. The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Bank failures
Overproduction
Underconsumption
17. How did the “Runs on Banks” worsen the economy?
17. It caused banks to close and created an even greater shortage of money.
5. How did the loss of farms due to crop failures and debts hurt the farmers?
5. Many farm-related businesses failed. Banks who had loaned money to farmers closed.
3. After WW1, what happened with many of the sharecroppers in GA?
3. Many left the farms and moved to jobs in the cities in manufacturing plants.
8. How did the drought hurt Georgians?
8. It made the lives of rural farmers more difficult, adding to the problem they already had with the boll weevil
13. How did the overproduction of products and lack of purchasing factor into the Great Depression?
13. It caused prices to fall on most consumer goods
18. What would one consider the immediate effect of more than half the population living below the poverty line?
18. The Stock Market Crash of 1929
10. How did the arrival of the Boll Weevil affect the Sharecropper and Tenant Farmer?
10. Many of them moved away from rural Georgia
4. Why did the South not feel the effects of the Great Depression the way other parts of the country experienced it?
4. The South was already experiencing the effects of drought and the boll weevil.
9. How did farmers refer to the Boll Weevil?
9. The Greatest enemy
14. What is considered the beginning of the Great Depression?
14. The Stock Market Crash of 1929
19. Who was the GA governor that strongly opposed the New Deal?
19. Eugene Talmadge
15. What was a major defect in the banking system in the United States exposed during the Great Depression?
15. There was nothing protecting an investor’s funds in the bank. The FDIC had not been created yet.
5. How did the loss of farms due to crop failures and debts hurt the farmers?
5. Many farm-related businesses failed. Banks who had loaned money to farmers closed.
10. How did the arrival of the Boll Weevil affect the Sharecropper and Tenant Farmer?
10. Many of them moved away from rural Georgia
15. What was a major defect in the banking system in the United States exposed during the Great Depression?
15. There was nothing protecting an investor’s funds in the bank. The FDIC had not been created yet.
20. How did most Georgians feel about the New Deal programs?
20. Most Georgians welcomed help from the government
20. How did most Georgians feel about the New Deal programs?
20. Most Georgians welcomed help from the government