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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WHich statement most accurately describes the relief, recovery, and reform measures of FDR's New Deal | The represented a major change in the role of government |
| Policy depicts? | Rural electrification |
| The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________. | Franklin Roosevelt |
| Which was a sign that the economy was weakening in the 1920s | consumers buying goods on credit |
| Who supported Eugene Talmadge? | Farmers |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | A New Deal program that paid farmers a stipend not to grow crops in order to increase the price of agricultural products |
| Boll Weevil | Insects whose larvae feed on cotton crops; decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States |
| Bank Failures | One of the factors that led to the Great Depression; when a bank ran out of reserves to pay customers who wanted to withdraw their deposit |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | A New Deal program that hires unemployed young men to work on public works projects |
| Drought of 1924 | One of the worst droughts in George's history; led to depression in the state that predated the Great Depression |
| New Deal | Name given to a series of federal programs spearheaded by President Franklin Roosevelt in order to help the nation recover from the Great Depression. |
| Overproduction | A factor that led the Great Depression; farmers continued to produce record numbers of crop yield though the demand for agricultural products was limited; this drove the cost of these products down |
| Reduction in purchasing | A factor that led the Great Depression; economic fears caused consumers to stop buying manufactured products, which led to companies losing money and laying off more employees |
| Rural Electrification Act | New Deal program designed to build the capabilities to bring electricity to rural areas |
| Social Security Act | New Deal program that provided retirement and unemployment insurance for American taxpayers |
| Stock Market Crash of 1929 | A factor that led to the Great Depression. A major stock market collapse that led to the investors losing over 40 billion dollars |
| Eugene Talmadge | (1884-1946):four time Georgia governor that fought against Roosevelt's New Deal policies |
| Bell Aircraft | Factory located in Marietta, Georgia, that produced B - 29 bombers for the US war effort |
| Franklin Roosevelt | (1882-1945)-32nd president of the United States; has close ties to Georgia and died at his Georgia home," The Little White House," in Warms Springs |
| Warm Springs | Georgia city that was home to Roosevelt's "Little White House"; site's warm water mineral springs were used as rehabilitation center for polio victim |
| Boll Weevil | a small grayish long-snouted beetle that destroys the cotton crop |
| Great Migration | Black farmers moved from the South to the North to work in factories |
| Stock Market | the place where shares of ownership in corporations are bought and sold |
| Great Depression | a severe economic downturn that began with the stock market crash of 1929 and lasted until World War II |
| laissez-faire | the doctrine that the government should not interfere in the private sector of the economy. "hands off approach" |
| New Deal | The Name given to the programs enacted by Congress in the 1930s to bring about economic recovery relieve the suffering of the unemployed, reform the defects in the economy and improve society |
| Rural Electification | a new deal program that provided funds to farmers cooperatives to help them extend their power lines. |
| Civilian Conservation Corp-CCC | The New Deal program that was responsible for such projects in Georgia as Roosevelt State Park, Tybee Island's seawall, Augusta's Savannah River Levee, and Macon's airport |
| Social Security Act-SSA | The New Deal program that gives retirement benefits and unemployment insurance. |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act-AAA | A United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively rai |
| Contributions from GA for WW | Victory Gardens, Soldiers, Training Camps, Railroads, Textile Mills produced uniforms |
| Causes for USA involvement in WWI | Causes for USA involvement in WWI |
| 3 R's of Roosevelt's New Deal Plan | Relief, Recovery, Reform |
| With the New Deal Government... | assumed the responsibility to relieve the suffering |
| Rural Electrification Act-REA | The New Deal program resulted from President Franklin Roosevelt view of rural Georgia without electricity while sitting on his porch one evening |
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