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Great Depression in Georgia

Authored by Ansel Whatley

Social Studies

8th Grade

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Great Depression in Georgia
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 20 pts

What events caused Georgia to become economically stressed in the 1920s before the Great Depression of the 1930s?

The Atlanta Race Riot and the Leo Frank trial

WW1 and the Atlanta Cotton Exposition

A four year drought and the boll weevil infestation of Georgia's cotton crops

The Spanish Flu and the Hindenburg Disaster

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 20 pts

Bank failures, unemployment, reduction of purchasing, overproduction of agriculture, soil degradation, soil erosion, and drought were all causes of ....

The rise of the 2nd wave of the Ku Klux Klan

The Atlanta Race Riot

The Great Depression

WW1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 20 pts

What caused many Georgia farmers to abandon their farms and migrate to northern cities?

The devastating effects of the boll weevil on their cotton crops and the declining cotton prices.

It was just too hot in the south and most farmers didn't have air conditioning

Farms in northern cities had much cooler climates than southern farms

Most southern farmers wanted to move to the more Republican northern states

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 20 pts

Depleted soil, declining prices, outdated agricultural practices, intertilling, disregard for the land's contour, and the removal of much of the state's natural forestland were all caused by....

Boll Weevil Infestation

Drought

Food shortages

Primarily growing cotton

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 20 pts

The most impacted areas of Georgia during the Great Depression were...

Rural farming areas

Overpopulated cities

Northern regions with higher elevations

Coastal areas

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