WW1-The Great Depression in GA

The ______________________  of 1929  triggered The Great Depression.

• International Cotton Expo
• Atlanta Race Riot
• stock market crash
• New Deal

One contribution that GA made during WWI was

• Ga opened history museums
• Ga  provided more military camps than any other state
• Ga had more trucks on the interstate than any other state
• Ga opened apple factories

The _______________ is an insect whose larva feeds on the cotton plant.  By 1915, this insect migrated to GA and drastically reduced the state's cotton crop.

• boll weevil
• roach
• ant
• bee

The destruction of the cotton crop forced Georgians to ________________ their economy.

• barter
• sell
• keep
• diversify

In addition to the damage caused by the boll weevil, Georgia farmers suffered through another natural disaster in the 1920's and 1930's . It was a _________.

• hurricane
• drought
• storm
• earthquake

-borrowing more money than could be repaid
-speculating in the stock market
-overproducing farm products
-overproducing industrial products
These events led to

• World War II
• The Great Society
• Hoover's re-election
• The Great Depression

The average citizen helped the war effort by

• quarantining flu victims & forming militias

• growing victory gardens and buying war bonds

• housing soldiers in their homes & making ammunition

Unstable economy, overproduction, bank failures, reduction in purchasing ALL led to

• Great Depression

• WWI

• drought of 1925

• invasion of the boll weevil

Did people in the south feel the full effects of the Great Depression?

• Yes, because they are a part of the nation

• No, because they were already feeling the effects of a depression due to the drought and boll weevil.

• Both

Which region on the map would have been DIRECTLY affected by the infestation of the boll weevil in the late-19th and early-20th centuries?

• 5
• 4
• 3
• 2