1. CHAPTER 10 AND 11 TEST REVIEW

2. What was the name of the passenger ship that was attacked by a German submarine in 1915 killing 128 Americans?

3. The Lusitania

4. What was the name given to the great stock market crash in 1929?

5. Black Tuesday

6. What is a period of little or no rain called? (This happened in Georgia in 1924)

7. Drought

8. What is the name of the small beetle that destroyed Georgia’s cotton crop in the 1920s?

9. What is the name of the small beetle that destroyed Georgia’s cotton crop in the 1920s? Boll Weevil

10. Who was a three-term Governor of Georgia who was a white supremacist that did not want New Deal programs or college admissions to include African Americans?

11. Eugene Talmadge

12. What was President Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression called?

13. What was President Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression called? New Deal

14. Which New Deal program brought electricity to farms and rural homes and made life much easier for farm families?

15. Rural Electrification Act (REA)

16. What New Deal program provided jobs for young single men building forest trails and roads, planting trees to reforest the land and control flooding, and rebuilding parks?

17. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

18. What New Deal program created a system for retirement and unemployment insurance?

19. Social Security Act (SSA)

20. What New Deal program paid farmers not to plant crops on part of their land in hopes of raising prices by cutting production?

21. What New Deal program paid farmers not to plant crops on part of their land in hopes of raising prices by cutting production? Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

22. What New Deal program did Georgia’s textile industry resist?

23. Minimum Wage Act {as part of the NIRA}

24. Which New Deal program was responsible for such projects in Georgia like Roosevelt State Park in Pine Mountain, Tybee Island’s seawall, Augusta’s Savannah River levee, and Macon’s airport?

25. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

26. What New Deal program resulted from President Roosevelt’s view of rural Georgia while sitting on his porch in Warm Springs in the evenings?

27. Rural Electrification Act (REA)

28. What woman was a member of Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet”?

29. Mary McLeod Bethune

30. What improvements in farming came about because of the Rural Electrification Authority?

31. Milking Machines, Electric Water Pumps and lights

32. Why did rural African American farmers in Georgia not reap the benefits of many New Deal programs?

33. Grants of money from the Gov’t went to landowners rather than tenant farmers and poor sharecroppers.

34. Which Georgia Governor allowed the federal government to take over the administration of New Deal programs in our state?

35. Eurith “Ed” Rivers

36. What GA Governor’s actions resulted in the university system being placed on probation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools?

37. Eugene Talmadge

38. Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt spend so much time in Georgia?

39. The warm springs helped his polio symptoms.

40. TRUE OR FALSE: The Government gave loans to banks to help restore people’s faith in American banks.

41. True

42. What was the main focus of the New Deal programs?

43. A plan to end the Great Depression. Reform, Relief and Recovery

44. What were 2 ways that President Hoover tried to help the needy and end the depression?

45. 1.Buy farmers crops to help raise the price 2.Hire unemployed people to work for Govt.

46. TRUE OR FALSE: Soup kitchens, bartering practices, and migration in search of work were common during the Great Depression.

47. True

48. Who was president of the United States when the country fell in the Great Depression?

49. Herbert Hoover

50. What does the term “laissez- faire” mean?

51. Attitude that the economy would fix itself if left alone.

52. During the 1920s, how did female behavior and appearance change?

53. More women worked, new fashions, short hair, makeup, dancing, drinking.

54. What were some modern home conveniences that appeared in the 1920s?

55. Refrigerators, Gas stoves, toasters, sliced bread, prepackaged foods, baby food.

56. Who was the famous gangster who headed Chicago’s mob and was imprisoned in Atlanta’s Federal Penitentiary?

57. Gangster - Al Capone

58. What was one reason that many black farmers moved to the North during the Great Migration?

59. Better pay, education, citizenship rights

60. What were the two main events that affected GA’s agriculture in a negative way during the 1920s?

61. The severe drought and Boll Weevil

62. What was Georgia’s first commercial radio station?

63. WSB

64. TRUE OR FALSE: Methods for freezing foods, the appearance of convenience foods, and commercial radio stations were all associated with the 1920s.

65. True

66. Why were the 1920s known as the “roaring twenties”?

67. Life was good, new inventions and conveniences were plentiful.

68. How long did Rebecca Latimer Felton serve in the US Congress?

69. 1 day

70. What did the 19 th amendment do?

71. Gave women the right to vote.

72. What were the three soldier training facilities in Georgia during WWI ?

73. Camp Benning, Fort McPherson and Camp Gordon.

74. What two events led the United States into WWI?

75. Zimmerman Telegram and the sinking of the Lusitania

76. Which of those events in your answer to previous question was the final straw that led President Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress to declare war against the Central Powers?

77. The Zimmerman Telegram

78. Which countries were a part of the Allied Powers in WWI?

79. France, Great Britain and the United States

80. This led to WWll because Germany felt punished for WWl sending their economy into a Great Depression?

81. Treaty of Versailles

82. After being neutral for some time, why did the United States finally enter WWll?

83. Attack on Pearl Harbor

84. For years the United State remained neutral to WWll war efforts but this policy allowed us to rent weapons to Great Britain and the Soviet Union.

85. Lend-Lease Act

86. What Georgian was known as the father of “the two ocean navy”?

87. Carl Vinson

88. Name 3 ways WWll impacted the economy of Georgia.

89. 1.Military forts trained soldiers 2.Bell Aircraft (Marietta) built B-29 bombers 3.Georgia Farms increased due to wartime demands for crops

90. What was the name given to the mass murder of over 6 million Jews during the 1930s and 1940s?

91. Holocaust

92. What was the name given to ships built in Savannah and Brunswick Georgia?

93. What was the name given to ships built in Savannah and Brunswick Georgia during WWll? Liberty Ships