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SS8H8b

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Social Studies

5th - 8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

-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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Georgia experienced a severe drought from 1924 to 1927. What conclusion can you make as to how the drought affected Georgia?

It brought many northern investors to Georgia so that they could buy up large tracks of mostly empty farmland.

It made rural farmers totally change the cash crops they grew to ones that required much smaller amounts of water.

It totally changed Georgia’s economy from one that depended on cash crops to one that depended on manufacturing.

It made the lives of rural farmers even more difficult, adding to the problems of the Great Depression and the boll weevil.

3.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which TWO events caused an economic depression in Georgia before the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

Boll Weevil

Droughts

Bank failures

The start of World War I

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which crop did the the Boll Weevil destroy?

Cotton

Tobacco

Silk

Peaches

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This cause led many businesses to close, including farms, because they were producing more goods than consumers were willing to buy.

Overproduction

Underconsumption

Buying on Credit

Stock Speculation

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