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- Q1Wallace Dogood is a young, single man of 20 looking for job during the Depression. What program might provide him assistance?AAA Agricultural Adjustment ActSSA Social Security AdministrationCCC Civilian Conservation CorpsREA Rural Electrification Administration30s
- Q2Mayor Boatright and several interested citizens want to bring electricity to their isolated corner of south Georgia. What New Deal Program might best help them?SSA Social Security AdministrationCCC Civilian Conservation CorpsREA Rural Electrification AdministrationAAA Agricultural Adjustment Act30s
- Q3Which of the following BEST explains how the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) planned to help farmers?AAA encouraged farmers to increase production to meet world market demands.AAA paid young men ages 18-25 to work on government projects and to leave the farm.AAA enrolled young men in the military.AAA paid farmers to decrease production in the hopes that this would stabilize prices.30s
- Q4How did workers' wages lead to the Depression"Workers quit their jobsWorkers' wages were lowWorkers' wages were too highWorld War30s
- Q5Harrison Carter is now seventy-five years old and has trouble keeping up with the young workers at his job shoveling chicken poop at Davis Green's Egg Emporium. What New Deal program might provide Harrison with a pension to help him get by in his later years?CCC Civilian Conservation CorpsAAA Agricultural Adjustment ActSSA Social Security AdministrationREA Rural Electrification Administration30s
- Q6This graph illustrates one of the three strikes facing southern farmers in the 1920s. Which of the three strikes is MOST clearly shown here?stock market crashfalling cotton pricesboll weevil infestationdevastating drought30s
- Q7What best characterizes the three strikes facing Georgia farmers in the 1920s?boll weevil, high profits, droughtboll weevil, drought, falling pricesboll weevil, world war, high profitsdrought, boll weevil, world war30s
- Q8As a result of the problems faced by Georgia farmers, thousands of farmers made what tough decision?grew more cotton than ever.quit farming and moved to the city.built golf courses on their lands.went back to college.30s
- Q9What BEST characterizes Eugene Talmadge’s relationship with FDR and the New Deal?Talmadge was a great friend of FDR.Talmadge was a shrewd politician who knew he needed to support FDR to survive.Talmadge and FDR were close allies in forging a powerful Republican Party.Talmadge hated FDR and considered the New Deal a system of communism.30s
- Q10Who was the MOST likely audience for this quote from the campaign trail with Eugene Talmadge in 1936?urban supporters of FDR and the New Dealpoor, white industrial workerspoor, white farmerspoor, black farmers30s
- Q11Abe is a young, single man of 19 looking for job during the Depression. What program might provide him assistance?AAASSACCCREA30s
- Q12FDR created his “Little White House” near what Georgian natural wonder?Okefenokee SwampStone MountainTalulah GorgeWarm Springs30s
- Q13Leon Smatterback is seventy-five and unable to work in the Mayberry cotton mill any longer. What New Deal program might help him?SSAAAACCCREA30s
- Q14Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?underproduction of industrial goodsagriculture was strugglingthe market collapseworkers’ wages were low30s
- Q15Which of the following BEST explains how the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) planned to help farmers?AAA enrolled young men in the military.AAA encouraged farmers to increase production to meet world market demands.AAA paid farmers to decrease production in the hopes that this would stabilize prices.AAA paid young men ages 18-25 to work on government projects and to leave the farm.30s