1. Modern georgia to ww1
Unit 7

2. Russia was planning to attack the United States
Which of the following is a reason why the US decided to enter World War I?
Russia was planning to attack the United States
The heir to the throne of Austria Hungary was assassinated
The Triple Entente kept attacking US ships
German U-boat attacks made Americans angry

3. answer
German U-boat attacks made Americans angry

4. How did Georgians feel about the Selective Service Act?
Georgia was one of the few states where the act did not cause controversy because people were so eager to serve.
Many Georgians opposed the act because they feared it would hurt farmers.
Many Georgians did not worry about the act because it only applied to northern states.
Georgians refused to obey the act because most people in the state believed the war was wrong and very few agreed to serve in the armed forces.

5. answer
Many Georgians opposed the act because they feared it would hurt farmers.

6. Which of the following is TRUE regarding Georgia’s contributions to WWI?
Georgia provided needed textiles, food, and military bases for the war effort.
Georgia could only supply soldiers because times were hard for farmers.
Georgia only allowed African-Americans to be drafted because whites were needed to work on farms.
Thousands of Georgians were drafted but only a few hundred served in the armed forces because the state reused to officially support the war.

7. answer
Georgia provided needed textiles, food, and military bases for the war effort.

8. What is a boll weevil?
A farmer who refused to move to the city despite hard times economically.
Someone who buys more than they save.
An insect that destroyed cotton crops in the South.
An African-American who moved north during the 1920’s & 1930’s.

9. answer
An insect that destroyed cotton crops in the South.

10. What impact did overproduction have on Georgia farmers?
It raised farm prices and made them prosperous right before the Depression.
Caused farm prices to drop and made it difficult for farmers to get out of debt.
It had little effect on farmers because most of them did not buy stocks.
It almost wiped out farmers because most of them had diversified their crops.

11. answer
Caused farm prices to drop and made it difficult for farmers to get out of debt.

12. The New Deal The Great Migration Consumerism The CCC
What was the name of President Roosevelt’s programs designed to help people during the Great Depression?
The New Deal
The Great Migration
Consumerism
The CCC

13. answer
The New Deal

14. The Agricultural Adjustment Act The REA Social Security
Which of the following provided money for people who were out of work as well as retirement pay during and after the Great Depression?
The CCC
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
The REA
Social Security

15. answer
Social Security

16. Which of the following would FDR and Eugene Talmadge have MOST AGREED on?
Farmers needing relief during the Great Depression.
Georgia needing the New Deal to help it economically.
Social Security
The federal government’s proper role during an economic crisis

17. answer
Farmers needing relief during the Great Depression.

18. The Great Migration Prosperity The Boll Weevil Subsidies
Which of the following would a cotton farmer in Georgia MOST have feared in the 1920’s?
The Great Migration
Prosperity
The Boll Weevil
Subsidies

19. answer
The Boll Weevil

20. A farmer who grows more than one crop has done what?
Subsidized
Consumed rather than saved
Overproduced
Diversified

21. answer
Diversified

22. The Boll Weevil The Great Migration The Great Depression Droughts
Overproduction, falling stock prices, and consumerism all contributed to what?
The Boll Weevil
The Great Migration
The Great Depression
Droughts

23. answer
The Great Depression

24. Which of the following BEST describes President Roosevelt’s approach to dealing with the Great Depression?
He wanted the government to do as little as possible because he believed the economy would eventually fix itself.
He believed in using government programs to end the crisis.
He believed the states, rather than the federal government, should be responsible for dealing with economic problems.
He wanted farmers to produce more cotton so that they could get out of debt.

25. He believed in using government programs to end the crisis.
answer
He believed in using government programs to end the crisis.

26. How did the Agricultural Adjustment Act help Georgia’s farmers?
It paid them not to produce certain crops in an effort to raise farm prices.
It paid them to produce more cotton so they could make more money.
It ended subsidies.
It paid farmers to move to Georgia as part of the Great Migration.

27. answer
It paid them not to produce certain crops in an effort to raise farm prices.

28. Which of the following is still around today?
The Great Depression
Social Security
The CCC
The REA

29. answer
Social Security

30. Which statement is TRUE regarding Eugene Talmadge?
He was governor of Georgia when the boll weevil arrived.
He was a huge supporter of the New Deal.
He caused great controversy by claiming that blacks had the same rights as whites.
He was the biggest political hero to Georgia’s white rural farmers since Tom Watson.

31. answer
He was the biggest political hero to Georgia’s white rural farmers since Tom Watson.

32. Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler Tojo Hideki Franklin Roosevelt
  Who was the totalitarian dictator who rose to power in Germany and started World War II?
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Tojo Hideki
Franklin Roosevelt

33. answer
Adolf Hitler

34. Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
They feared the US would join forces with Hitler.
They were responding to the fact that Congress had declared war on them.
They feared the US naval fleet anchored there and wanted to destroy it.
They wanted to invade the Soviet Union.

35. answer
They feared the US naval fleet anchored there and wanted to destroy it.

36. What were the “Liberty Ships”?
Ships sank at Pearl Harbor
German submarines lurking off the Georgia coast during WWII
Ships constructed at Georgia shipyards
Ships built at the Bell plant in Marietta

37. Ships constructed at Georgia shipyards
answer
Ships constructed at Georgia shipyards

38. What does the term “Little White House” refer to?
Roosevelt’s home in New York
The portion on the White House where Roosevelt spend most of his time
Roosevelt’s vacation home in Warm Springs, Georgia
The governor’s mansion in Atlanta

39. Roosevelt’s vacation home in Warm Springs, Georgia
answer
Roosevelt’s vacation home in Warm Springs, Georgia

40. Which of the following led to World War II in Europe?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
The sinking of US ships off the coast of Georgia
Japan’s aggression
The rise of totalitarian leaders in Europe

41. The rise of totalitarian leaders in Europe
answer
The rise of totalitarian leaders in Europe

42. A British general An isolationist An Italian soldier Tojo Hideki
Which one of the following people would have been MOST supportive of the Lend-Lease act?
A British general
An isolationist
An Italian soldier
Tojo Hideki

43. answer
A British general

44. Hitler’s invasion of France The bombing of Pearl Harbor
What was President Franklin Roosevelt talking about when he referred to December 7, 1941, as “a day that will live in infamy”?
Hitler’s invasion of France
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
Germany’s surrender
The beginning of the war in Europe

45. The bombing of Pearl Harbor
answer
The bombing of Pearl Harbor

46. What role did Bell Aircraft play during WWII?
It made many of the ships that fought in the Atlantic
It produced most of the ships that fought in the Pacific
It employed many civilians and gave birth to the town of Warner Robbins
It produced more than 600 bombers and created many new jobs in Marietta

47. answer
It produced more than 600 bombers and created many new jobs in Marietta

48. Liberty ships produced at the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards
Many historians consider which of the following to be Georgia’s greatest military contribution to the war effort?
Liberty ships produced at the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards
Prisoner of war camps
Small business started by Atlanta’s Jewish community
Warm Springs

49. Liberty ships produced at the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards
answer
Liberty ships produced at the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards

50. Franklin Roosevelt Carl Vinson Richard Russell Benito Mussolini
Who is the following quote talking about? “Good thing Georgians elected him to Congress. If it weren’t for him, our Navy never would have been able to beat the Japanese. No wonder they call him, “the father of the two ocean navy.”
Franklin Roosevelt
Carl Vinson
Richard Russell
Benito Mussolini

51. answer
Carl Vinson

52. The Holocaust MOST impacted which of the following groups
Residents of Brunswick and Glynn counties
Prisoners of war who chose to remain in Georgia after the war
The state’s Jewish community
Women serving in the military

53. The state’s Jewish community
answer
The state’s Jewish community

54. Which of the following was true regarding FDR’s relation with Georgia?
He was extremely unpopular in Georgia and never won a majority of votes in the state
He was loved by many in Georgia thanks to his New Deal programs and attachment to Warm Springs
Roosevelt never visited Georgia but was glad the New Deal helped its farmers and was grateful for its war time contribution
Roosevelt had to end his visits to Georgia after he contracted Polio and was confined to a wheelchair

55. answer
He was loved by many in Georgia thanks to his New Deal programs and attachment to Warm Springs

56. During what DECADE did the Great Depression occur within?

57. answer
1930’s

58. Subsidies
Producing more products than people could buy Lack of rain for a long period of time Payments made to someone to stop producing a good

59. answer
Payments made to someone to stop producing a good

60. Overproduction
Producing more products than people could buy Lack of rain for a long period of time Payments made to someone to stop producing a good

61. answer
Producing more products than people could buy

62. Drought
Producing more products than people could buy Lack of rain for a long period of time Payments made to someone to stop producing a good

63. answer
Lack of rain for a long period of time

64. Social Security Act
Program that hired men to build projects for the government Program that brought electricity to rural areas Program that provided unemployment and retirement benefits Program that paid farmers NOT to produce certain crops

65. answer
Program that provided unemployment and retirement benefits

66. Agricultural Adjustment Act
Program that hired men to build projects for the government Program that brought electricity to rural areas Program that provided unemployment and retirement benefits Program that paid farmers NOT to produce certain crops

67. answer
Program that paid farmers NOT to produce certain crops

68. Rural Electrification Act
Program that hired men to build projects for the government Program that brought electricity to rural areas Program that provided unemployment and retirement benefits Program that paid farmers NOT to produce certain crops

69. answer
Program that brought electricity to rural areas

70. Civilian Conservation Corp
Program that hired men to build projects for the government Program that brought electricity to rural areas Program that provided unemployment and retirement benefits Program that paid farmers NOT to produce certain crops

71. answer
Program that hired men to build projects for the government

72. The end
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