GA History Unit 8 Review

During WW I, Georgia contributed to the war efforts in all of the following ways except:

• Georgia sent soldiers to fight in WW I

• Georgia was the location of many battles and served as the U.S. capital during war time

• Georgians on the home front supported their troops by planting victory gardens and buying war bonds.

• Georgia had multiple military installations and training camps.

Which was NOT a military installation during WW I in Georgia

• Fort McPherson

• Warm Springs

• Camp Hancock

The sinking of what killed about 130 soldiers in Georgia. A statue in Nashville, Georgia honors those who lost their lives.

• Lusitania

• Screven

• Otranto

• Doughboy

Georgia provided more what than any other state during WWI

• victory gardens

• military training camps

• soldiers

• war bonds

The statue honoring Georgians who died serving WWI can be found in Nashville, GA and other cities. What is the statue called?

• Spirit of Screven

• Spirit of Otranto

• Spirit of the American Doughboy

• Victory for Georgians

What cash crop did Georgia still depend heavily on?

• Tobacco

• agriculture had no impact on Georgia in the 1920's

• Indigo, rice and cotton were all equally important

• Cotton

Which of the following hardships interfered with the agricultural industry of Georgia during the 1920's?

• The boll weevil caused much destruction to the cotton crops in Georgia

• Eugene Talmadge's resistance to working with FDR

• Frustrations over land ownerships for black farmers.

• Banks closed throughout the nation causing farmers not to have necessary equipment for farming.

While Georgia experienced an early depression in the 1920s, what was the majority of the nation experiencing?

• SImilar hardships were experienced throughout the rest of the nation due to widespread cooler temperatures .

• Much of the nation was experiencing economic success.

• The early depression was experienced by all parts of the nation due to the boll weevil destroying crops throughout the nation

Georgia experienced what during the 1920s which contributed to economic depression.

• three years of drought

• three years of excessive rainfall

• extremely lower than average temperatures

• extremely higher than average temperatures

Which economic factors did not contribute to the Great Depression of the 1930s

• The stock market crash of 1929

• reduced spending

• excessive rainfall

• unemployment