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Question | Answer |
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What three things started WW1? | Sinking of the Luisitania, Interception of the Zimmerman Telegram, and the assassination of ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand. |
When did the United States declare war? | April 6, 1917 |
How did Georgia help with the war? | over 100,000 georgians became soldiers, others bought war bonds, and others planted victory gardens. |
What is a drought and how did it affect Georgia? | A period without water and it made it difficult to grow any crops. |
What is a boll weevil? | A bug whos larvae eats cotton crops. |
When did the boll weevil make it to Georgia? | 1915 |
What did the boll weevil amke famers do? | Diversify their crops so they wouldn't get eaten. Like soybeans, potatoes, and corn |
What were the other factord that led to the Great Depression? | Bank Failures, Reduction and purchasing, and overproduction of agricultural products. |
Who created the New Deal? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
What four new deal programs were put into place? | AAA, CCC, REA, SSA |
What was the AAA? | Paid farmers to plant less cotton and tabacco so the supply would go down which made the demand go up. |
What was the CCC? | Hired unemployed young men to work on public service projects. |
What was the REA? | Brought electricity to rural families and farmers in the country areas of Georgia. |
What was the SSA? | Money gievn to people over 65 years of age and disabled people wot help with funding. |
Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt come to Georgia? | He came on navy business. |
Why did he come back to Georgia after falling in love with it? | The warm springs helped with his polio symptoms. |
He created what after warm springs in Georgia? | the roosevelt warm springs rehabilitation center |
Today, what is his house called? | The little white house |
What did Eugene Talmage run for but lost both times? | General Assembly |
What did he run for and win? | Governor of Georgia |
Why was he against Roosevelt's New Deal? | He didn't like any relief program that helped african americans |
Eugene Talmage's refusal of the new deal programs did what to georgia? | Hurt it economically. |
FDR was what for the United States? | President |