Depression/New Deal

Question 1

What was the last straw in the build up for the U.S. declaring war on Germany?

Answer 1

The Zimmerman telegram

Question 2

Who urged Mexico to attack the US?

Answer 2

Germany

Question 3

What unrestricted submarine warfare?

Answer 3

The sinking of the Lusitania

Question 4

What helped convince Americans to fight the Germans?

Answer 4

British anti-German propaganda

Question 5

What happened Georgia’s Camp Benning in World War I?

Answer 5

US soldiers were trained. This military base and others helped Georgia economically.

Question 6

How did Georgia support the war effort in World War 1?

Answer 6

Transporting soldiers and supplies, making uniforms, and supplying food

Question 7

What were The major threats to Georgia’s farmers in the 1920’s and 30’s?

Answer 7

Boll weevil, falling prices, and drought

Question 8

Who did not prosper in the “Roaring Twenties”?

Answer 8

Georgia’s farmers (farms were lost too)

Question 9

Why did many Georgia farmers did not notice the Great Depression?

Answer 9

They had been suffering for many years?

Question 10

What helped bring on the Great Depression?

Answer 10

Speculating in the stock market, overproduction, and bad loans

Question 11

When did the stock market crash?

Answer 11

Black Tuesday

Question 12

What happened as a result of the Great Depression?

Answer 12

Banks failed, people lost their jobs, and businesses were forced to close

Question 13

What was the government policy of leaving the economy alone called?

Answer 13

Laissez-faire

Question 14

Who started the New Deal to help those suffering in the Great Depression?

Answer 14

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 15

What were the purposes of the New Deal?

Answer 15

Economic recovery, relieving the suffering of the unemployed, and reforming the defects in the economy

Question 16

What did the CCC do in Georgia?

Answer 16

Build levees, parks, and airports

Question 17

What did the REA do?

Answer 17

Provided loans to farmers’ co-ops to help run power lines and provided farm subsidies (money) to property owners in Georgia

Question 18

What did the AAA do in Georgia?

Answer 18

Paid farmers to destroy their crops to control prices and provided farm subsidies (money) to property owners in Georgia

Question 19

What is a system of retirement and unemployment insurance(gov’t pension)?

Answer 19

Social Security

Question 20

What is the order of the events we are learning?

Answer 20

World war 1, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression/New Deal, and World War 2

Question 21

What are permanent committee (lasting one session to the next) called?

Answer 21

Standing committees

Question 22

What committee handles bills involving taxes?

Answer 22

Ways and means

Question 23

What committee works on the budget(spending)?

Answer 23

Appropriations

Question 24

Wha committee works on bills concerning the states’ laws and court system?

Answer 24

Judiciary

Question 25

What are organized for special task and lasts until the work is complete (temporary)?

Answer 25

Special committees

Question 26

What committee works on assigned issues and concerns between sessions of the legislature?

Answer 26

Interim

Question 27

What are appointed when house and senate pass different versions of a bill, made up of three representatives and three senators, and tries to write one version of the bill to pass?

Answer 27

Conference

Question 28

What committee is made up of both representatives and senators and works on the assigned topics and issues?

Answer 28

Joint

Question 29

What river is between South Carolina and Georgia?

Answer 29

Savannah River

Question 30

What river is part of the border between Alabama and Georgia?

Answer 30

Chattahoochee River

Question 31

What states border Georgia?

Answer 31

Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida

Question 32

What is located in the Southeastern United States, the continent of North America and the Northern and Western Hemispheres?

Answer 32

Georgia

Question 33

What cities are on the Fall Line?

Answer 33

Columbus, Macon, and Augusta

Question 34

What was triggered in Europe when Austrian Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated?

Answer 34

World War 1