Great Depression
Pesky pest that gobbled up Georgia's cash crop, cotton.
What is the boll weevil?
Give jobs to the unemployed and improve American's lives
What is FDR's New Deal?
Policy where USA did not get involved in the war immediately
What is neutrality?
Person who served an unprecedented four terms as US President.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Small Georgia town that President Roosevelt often visited to treat the poliovirus
What is Warm Springs, Georgia?
In 1924, Georgia suffered from a severe lack of rainfall, causing crops to wither and die.
What is a severe drought?
Created jobs for young men by building parks, sewer systems, bridges, and more!
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
France, Great Britain, and Russia
What are the Allied Powers?
Georgia contributed to this main cause of WWI
What is Militarism?
Who is Eugene Talmadge?
This is where a person goes to buy "parts" of a company.
What is the Stock Market?
Raised prices of farm products my limiting supplies; farmers compensated for not growing certain crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Term used when consumption of gasoline, meat, butter, sugar, rubber, etc., was limited to support the overseas troops.
What is rationing?
What is a Military Officer?
Warm Springs is famous for the treatment of polio victims mainly because of this.
What is its warm natural mineral springs or waters?
Stock market prices fell; millions of people lost all their wealth.
What is Black Tuesday - October 29, 1929?
Provided electricity to rural Americans
What is the Rural Electrification Authority (REA)?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram and the sinking of the Lusitania?
Small family gardens to make sure soldiers would have enough food.
What is a victory garden?
FDR residence while visiting Warm Springs, Georgia
What is the Little White House?
Well somebody told us Wall Street fell But we were so poor that we couldn't tell. Cotton was short and the weeds were tall But Mr. Roosevelt's a gonna save us all
What is "Song of the South" lyrics.
In 1935, this gave old-age benefits for retiring workers and offered insurance for unemployed and disabled.
What is the Social Security Administration?
These (spelled out) are the four main causes of WWI
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
What is creating military camps?
These are the two reasons FDR was well-liked in much of Georgia
What is the fact that he was very friendly and his New Deal programs aimed to help many Georgians?