SS8H8 (WWI-Great Depression)

Georgia used ____________ to help make uniforms and blankets for soldiers during WWI.

• textile mills

• Victory Gardens

• forts

• bomber plants

What helped kill the boll weevil off in the 1920s?

• determination

• drought

• round-up

• bad cotton

What was made up of government programs designed to help the United States out of the Great Depression?

• FDR's New Deal

• FDR's Assistance Program

• Congress' Reconstruction Bill

The 1930s are known for the ___________.

• end of WWII

• Great Depression

• cotton becoming king

• Southern secession

This New Deal program was designed to help retired Americans.

• Social Security

• Rural Electrification

• Civilian Conservation Corps

Farmers turned to new crops like peanuts and poultry (chicken) because of what?

• overproduction of cotton

• field rot

• boll weevils

• locusts

This Georgia governor was elected because he promised to balance the state budget.

• Eugene Talmadge

• FDR

• Richard Russell

• Bill Carter

FDR came to this town in Georgia for polio treatments.

• Thomasville

• Savannah

• Atlanta

• Warm Springs

The electric bill that FDR received at Warm Springs inspired him to create which New Deal Program?

• National Youth Administration

• Works Progress Administration

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Public Works Administration

Forts in Georgia were used for what during WWI?

• Secret housing for President Wilson and his cabinet

• Building weapons of mass destruction

• Storing ammunition

• Training new soldiers and holding POWs.