Question 1 (10 points) Saved

What was a result of banks closing during the Depression? AKS: 38c

Question 1 options:

Many average Americans lost all their savings and businesses and citizens had trouble getting loans.

Banks were forced to print their own money and to rely on foreign money for loans to keep their doors open.

The government had to supply money to all businesses and businesses and citizens had trouble getting loans.

Many average Americans lost all their savings, and Americans had to rely on foreign money for loans to buy goods.

Question 2 (10 points)

Which of President Roosevelt’s programs helped Georgians by providing jobs for 78,000 young single men in the state to complete helpful projects such as building forest trails and roads, planting trees to reforest the land and control flooding, and building parks and other government facilities? AKS: 38e

Question 2 options:

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Tennessee Valley Authority

Rural Electrification Authority

Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 3 (10 points)

Why did Eugene Talmadge oppose most of the New Deal Programs? AKS: 38f

Question 3 options:

He feared that many Georgians would turn to supporting the Republican Party.

He was angry that Roosevelt supported limiting the amount of cotton planted in the state.

He feared that the federal government would come into the state and end segregation.

He disliked increased federal spending and economic regulation by the national government. He saw FDR's federal New Deal programs as "socialism".

Question 4 (10 points)

Which of the following was a way that President Roosevelt impacted the state of Georgia? AKS: 38d

Question 4 options:

The REA brought electricity to big cities.

The Social Security Administration helped younger people by giving them health insurance.

The AAA stabilized stock prices and helped halt closing of banks in Georgia.

He created a treatment center in Warm Springs to provide therapy for those with polio and other physical disabilities.

Question 5 (10 points)

Why did President Roosevelt build a vacation home in Georgia? AKS: 38d

Question 5 options:

He wanted to carry Georgia in his next election.

To make sure Eugene Talmadge was implementing his New Deal programs.

To monitor the progress of Tom Watson’s rural free delivery program.

He spent much time treating his polio at the thermal pools in Warm Springs.

Question 6 (10 points)

What factor(s) led to economic growth in Georgia during World War I and contributed to the war effort? AKS: 38a

Question 6 options:

Military bases were built in Georgia to train soldiers and provide other services.

Sharecropping ended because the economy got much better.

Electricity was provided to rural areas.

Liberty ships were built in Savannah and Brunswick.

Question 7 (10 points)

Which of the following did the Rural Electrification Authority, one of Roosevelt’s programs, do? AKS: 38e

Question 7 options:

Trained young single men from the countryside to be electricians

Provided electrical appliances and farm equipment to farmers

Invented the electric fence to keep predators away from farms

Extended electrical lines to the rural areas in the country and made electricity more affordable

Question 8 (10 points)

How are the droughts in the 1920s and the boll weevil similar? AKS: 38b

Question 8 options:

They were natural disasters that led to agricultural problems in Georgia.

They were bugs that damaged cotton production in Georgia and the South.

The droughts wiped out the boll weevil in Georgia, which led to economic gain.

They caused many people to move to Georgia.

How did Governor Talmadge react to President Roosevelt’s economic policies?

-He tried to get more dams built on Georgia rivers to provide electricity.

-He used his power as governor to block New Deal policies being carried out in Georgia.

-He was happy that Georgians could get money for not planting cotton.

-He became a chief spokesman for the re-election of Roosevelt in 1936.

Which of the following statement is can be inferred from the diagram above?

-Factories should produce goods even if they can’t sell them.

-A country is better off economically if it doesn’t produce anything.

-People should buy products to keep the economy healthy even if they must go into extreme debt

-Making products and selling products is very important for an economy to prosper.