In the 1920s, Georgia was NOT affected by

1. An increase in cotton production and cotton prices

2. A prolonged drought

3. Boll weevils4. The loss of thousands of working farms

What was the nickname given to the day in 1929 the stock

market “crashed” dramatically?

Black Tuesday.

What term describes the belief that economic problems can work

themselves out in the marketplace without government help or controls?

Laissez-faire

Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt spend so much

time in Georgia?

The warm mineral waters of Warm Springs relieved his

polio symptoms.

What was the purpose of the Social Security Act?

It was to create a system of retirement supplement

and unemployment insurance.

Though its design was intended differently, which group ended up benefitting most from the

AAA?

Property Owners

Which New Deal program was

responsible for such projects in

Georgia as Roosevelt State Park in

Pine Mountain, Tybee Island’s

seawall, Augusta’s Savannah River

levee, and Macon’s airport?

What New Deal program resulted from President Roosevelt’s view of rural

Georgia while sitting on his porch in the evening?

Which Georgia governor, whose firing of college deans wanting to integrate the colleges, resulted in the university

system’s being placed on probation with the Southern Association of

Colleges and Schools?

Eugene Talmadge

Lend lease Act

What did the lend lease act do to countries like the United Kingdom, China, and Free France?

It provided Allied Countries with war materials.

Melissa Liu and Thomas Gray

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Where was President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he died on April

24, 1945, while sitting for a portrait at the Little White

House?

Warm Springs, Georgia

Which New Deal program Insured individual savings accounts so that people did not lose their money if banks failed or closed their doors

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Jacob Kim and John You