1. By Jenna Burleson and Ashley Smith
Chapter 7
By Jenna Burleson and Ashley Smith

2. What is the tiny insect from Mexico that reached Georgia by 1915 and destroyed cotton crops?

3. ANSWER
Boll Weevil

4. What does it mean to grow more than just cotton?

5. ANSWER
Diversify

6. A period where there is no rain or not nearly enough; farmers can not grow as much as usual

7. ANSWER
Droughts

8. People started focusing on buying things instead of saving money

9. ANSWER
Consumerism

10. Plans that allow people to pay for things a little at a time

11. ANSWER
Installment Plans

12. People buying things with borrowed money

13. ANSWER
Easy Credit

14. When someone purchases part ownership in companies they believe will make money

15. ANSWER
Stocks

16. Paying for part of a stock then borrowing the rest

17. ANSWER
Margin

18. Making high-risk investments in hopes that they would pay off

19. ANSWER
Speculation

20. When businesses and farmers produced more than people could buy.

21. ANSWER
Overproduction

22. What happened on October 29th,1929 when stock prices dropped so much that it set off a financial panic?

23. ANSWER
Stock market crash

24. The day the stock market crashed and the beginning of the great is called what?

25. ANSWER
Black Tuesday

26. What was the worst financial crisis in US history that lasted throughout the 30’s?

27. ANSWER
The Great Depression

28. What was it called when a large number of Georgia’s African-American population moved to northern cities?

29. ASNSWER
The Great Migration

30. Who was president in 1932 and used government regulation to fix the economy and created the new deal?

31. ANSWER
FDR

32. What was the series of government plans launched by FDR?

33. ANSWER
New Deal

34. A law that paid farmers not to produce certain crops to raise farm prices and also led to more livestock.

35. Agricultural Adjustment Act
ANSWER
Agricultural Adjustment Act

36. Hired married men ages 17-23 in the war and they plant trees in national forests

37. Civilian Conservation Corps
ANSWER
Civilian Conservation Corps

38. An act passed by congress in 1935 that provided retirement pay and other benefits for workers and also provided unemployment insurance that provided money for people out of work.

39. ANSWER
Social Security Act

40. An act that provided funds to supply nations small farms with electricity

41. ANSWER
Norris Rayburn Act

42. Created in 1935 and provided electricity to people who did not have any

43. Rural electrification Administration
ANSWER
Rural electrification Administration

44. Georgia’s governor who opposed social security and new deal programs
Georgia’s governor who opposed social security and new deal programs. Agreed with white supremacies and related to country folk; served 4 terms

45. ANSWER
Eugene Talmadge

46. What impact did overproduction have on Georgia farmers?
What was the great depression and what are 3 factors that helped cause?
Who would have most feared the boll weevil in the 1920s?
Who believed in using government programs to end the great depression?
What new deal is still around today?
The bo

47. ANSWER TO QUESTIONS
Caused farm prices to drop and made it difficult for farmers to get out debt
The boll weevil, overproduction, and the stock market crash and the great depression was the worst financial crisis in the US history that lasted throughout the 1930s
Farmers in Georgia
President F.D.R
Social security