8th - SS8H8 WWI & Great Depression

Georgia had many federal installations and training camps. Which of these statements BEST describes why this was important?

• They helped to bring Georgia out of the Great Depression.

• They were important to the United States during World War I.

• They helped citizens of Georgia who were unemployed.

• They provided an opportunity for women to be trained as soldiers.

Who was opposed to the Agricultural Adjustment Act because he though the AAA gave the government too much control over farmers?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• William T. Sherman

• Eugene Talmadge

What allowed unemployed Georgians to have jobs and rural Georgians to receive electricity?

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Great Depression

• New Deal

• Truman Doctrine

Which New Deal program caused the price of crops to increase because it paid farmers to plant less crops?

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Social Security Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Civilian Conservation Corps

How did World War I impact women in the United States?

• Women received equal pay for equal work.

• Women were prohibited from working as Red Cross volunteers.

• Women worked jobs that had been held almost exclusively by men.

• Women continued to hold traditional jobs such as nursing or teaching.

What was Georgia's role in the war effort for World War I? (CHOOSE 2 answers.)

• Georgia did not participate by refusing to send troops to Europe.

• Georgia provided military installations and POW camps and sent troops to Europe.

• Georgia sent goods by growing victory gardens.

• Georgia sent troops but refused to send supplies.

Early in World War I, the United States War Department designated Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, as a major site for

• training U.S. navy cadets.

• training U.S. air force cadets.

• holding German prisoners of war.

• quarantining people with influenza.

How did the drought affect Georgia farmers?

• Georgia began growing a variety of crops.

• Northern investors came to Georgia to buy abandoned farmland.

• Georgia's farmers made less money.

• Georgia's economy focused more of shipping instead of farming.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's visits to the Little White House led to the creation of New Deal program

• Social Security Administration

• Rural Electrification Act

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Civilian Conservation Corp

Which New Deal Program caused many sharecroppers to be unemployed due to lower production?

• Rural Electrification Act

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Adminstration

• Civilian Conservation Corps