SS8H8 The cause of the Great Depression

This group was the one that the federal government paid farmers NOT to grow cotton or tobacco. Which done more harm then good to the sharecroppers and tenant farmers as farmers kept the surplus.

• AAA

  (Agricultural Adjustment Act)

• CCC

  (Civilian Conservation Corp)

• SSA

  (Social Security Act)

• SCLC

  (Southern Christian Leadership Committee)

Which group was made up of young unemployed men to work on public service projects?

• AAA

  (Adjustment Agricultural Act)

• CCC

  (Civilian Conservation Corp)

• SSA

  (Social Security Act)

• SCLC

  (Southern Christian Leadership Committee)

This was created to help people 65 or older, the disabled, beneficiary of someone who died. It was paid by paying these taxes or receiving benefits.

• AAA

  (Adjustment Agricultural Act)

• CCC

  (Civilian Conservation Act)

• SSA

  (Social Security Administration)

• SCLC

  (Southern Christian Leadership Committee)

How did Georgia contribute to WWI?

• By joining the war

• Sending aid to wounded soldiers

• Victory gardens, Training supplies, Military bases.

• By giving soldiers somewhere to vacation on their days off.

What was a tiny insect that laid eggs in the cotton plants and the larvae destroyed the plants by eating all the cotton?

• Drought

• Boll Weevil

• Pestisides

• Lady bugs

What had a devastating impact on the remaining cotton plants and seeds AFTER the invading of the Boll Weevil? It was caused by no rain for long periods of time.

• Boll Weevil

• Drought

• Dust Bowl

• Lack of fertilizer

Who was Georgia's adopted son, used Warm Springs to treat his Polio, his home was named the "Little White House" in Georgia during his presidency?

• Herbert Hoover

• Eugene Talmadge

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

He did NOT like the New Deal Program because he believed that the federal government should stay out of the state and he also believed that black and whites should NOT be equal.

He also was know for chasing African Americans out his restaurant with an axe handle.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Alonzo Herndon

• Eugene Talmadge

This was the start of the great depression and happened when the stocks dropped and people lost all their money and life savings.

• Stock Market crash

• Stock Market Development

• Failure of savings account

People rushed to the banks after the Stock Market crash and demanded all their money causing this to happen?

• Stock market crash

• Bank Failure

• Checks and Balances

• Bank reopening