Unit 7Jeopardy – 6 th Period Final Jeopardy GAPIEDMONT ATLANTACHEROKEE WOODSTK WMS Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500

$100 Question from GA What were subsidies?

$100 Answer from GA Payments made to someone to stop producing a good

$200 Question from GA Define Civilian Conservation Corp

$200 Answer from GA Program that hired men to build projects for the gov’t

$300 Question from GA What two things contributed to the USA becoming involved in WWI?

$300 Answer from GA 1.The Zimmerman Telegram. 2.Sinking of American Cargo ships & Lusitania

$400 Question from GA What were Georgia’s contributions to WWI?

$400 Answer from GA Georgia provided needed textiles, food, and military bases for the war effort.

$500 Question from GA What did overproduction do to Georgia farmers?

$500 Answer from GA Caused farm prices to drop and made it difficult for farmers to get out of debt.

$100 Question from PIEDMONT Define Overproduction

$100 Answer from PIEDMONT Producing more products than people could buy

$200 Question from PIEDMONT What is a boll weevil?

$200 Answer from PIEDMONT An insect that destroyed cotton crops in the South.

$300 Question from PIEDMONT Overproduction, falling stock prices, and consumerism all contributed to what major event in US history?

$300 Answer from PIEDMONT The stock market crash & the Great Depression

$400 Question from PIEDMONT How did President Roosevelt’s deal with the Great Depression? What was his plan?

$400 Answer from PIEDMONT He developed a series of federal government economic plans, called the New Deal, to get the country’s economy going again

$500 Question from PIEDMONT Describe Eugene Talmadge – how did he feel about the farmers, how did he feel about blacks, race relations?

$500 Answer from PIEDMONT Eugene Talmadge supported the rural white farmer; he did things to help them while he was in office. He was racist and a white supremacist.

$100 Question from ATLANTA Define Drought

$100 Answer from ATLANTA Lack of rain for a long period of time

$200 Question from ATLANTA What does it mean to have diversification of your crops?

$200 Answer from ATLANTA It means to grow different crops; not just one crop

$300 Question from ATLANTA How did the Agricultural Adjustment Act help Georgia’s farmers?

$300 Answer from ATLANTA It paid them not to produce certain crops in an effort to raise farm prices.

$400 Question from ATLANTA How did Georgians feel about the Selective Service Act during WWI?

$400 Answer from ATLANTA Many Georgians opposed the act because they feared it would hurt farmers.

$500 Question from ATLANTA What led to World War II in Europe?

$500 Answer from ATLANTA The rise of dictators & totalitarian leaders like Mussolini and Hitler

$100 Question from CHEROKEE Define Social Security Act

$100 Answer from CHEROKEE Program that provided unemployment and retirement benefits

$200 Question from CHEROKEE Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

$200 Answer from CHEROKEE They feared the US naval fleet anchored there and wanted to destroy it.

$300 Question from CHEROKEE What were the “Liberty Ships”? Where were they produced?

$300 Answer from CHEROKEE WWII Ships constructed at Georgia shipyards – Savannah & Brunswick

$400 Question from CHEROKEE What types of people would have supported the Lend-Lease act?

$400 Answer from CHEROKEE British military & citizens; Americans who supported helping Great Britain

$500 Question from CHEROKEE Describe the Lend Lease Act and explain WHY this helped pull American into WWII

$500 Answer from CHEROKEE Allowed Britain to borrow or lease supplies, equipment, and food for its fight against Germany. This brought America into the War by making us an enemy of Germany by supplying Britain

$100 Question from WOODSTOCK Define Agricultural Adjustment Act

$100 Answer from WOODSTOCK Program that paid farmers NOT to produce certain crops

$200 Question from WOODSTOCK What was Roosevelt’s connection to Georgia?

$200 Answer from WOODSTOCK Warm Springs, GA is where he received Polio treatments and built the “Little White House”

$300 Question from WOODSTOCK The Holocaust impacted what groups of people?

$300 Answer from WOODSTOCK Jewish People

$400 Question from WOODSTOCK List at least 2 ways that the Bell Aircraft Plant in Marietta helped Georgians and the War effort.

$400 Answer from WOODSTOCK It produced more than 600 bomber planes created many new jobs in Marietta

$500 Question from WOODSTOCK What was Carl Vinson Know for?

$500 Answer from WOODSTOCK 50 years in U.S. House of Representatives- longest in history House Naval Affairs Committee “Father of the Two-Ocean Navy”- the U.S. must strengthen its navy in order to remain secure credited with the U.S.’s ability to win the war in the Pacific because of his efforts in Congress

$100 Question from WMS Define Rural Electrification Act

$100 Answer from WMS Program that brought electricity to rural areas

$200 Question from WMS What was Georgia’s greatest military contribution to the war effort?

$200 Answer from WMS The building of war ships in Savannah and Brunswick & building of bomber plans in Marietta

$300 Question from WMS What was President Franklin Roosevelt talking about when he referred to December 7, 1941, as “a day what will live in infamy”?

$300 Answer from WMS The bombing of Pearl Harbor

$400 Question from WMS When did the Great Depression start and What DECADE did the Great Depression occur within?

$400 Answer from WMS 1929 The 1930’s

$500 Question from WMS What was something that Talmadge & Roosevelt would have agreed upon regarding farmers?

$500 Answer from WMS That farmers needed assistance during the Great Depression

Final Jeopardy What was the Yalta conference and who attended?

Final Jeopardy Answer Peace conference at the end of WWII. Britain (Churchill), Russia (Stalin), and USA (Roosevelt) attended.