1. In the 1920s, Georgia was NOT affected by 1.An increase in cotton production and cotton prices 2.A prolonged drought 3.Boll weevils 4.The loss of thousands of working farms

2. What was the nickname given to the day in 1929 the stock market “crashed” dramatically? Black Tuesday.

3. What term describes the belief that economic problems can work themselves out in the marketplace without government help or controls? Laissez-faire

4. Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt spend so much time in Georgia? The warm mineral waters of Warm Springs relieved his polio symptoms.

5. What was the purpose of the Social Security Act? It was to create a system of retirement supplement and unemployment insurance.

6. Though its design was intended differently, which group ended up benefitting most from the AAA? Property Owners

7. 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?

8. What New Deal program resulted from President Roosevelt’s view of rural Georgia while sitting on his porch in the evening?

9. 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

10. 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 10

11. 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

12. 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