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Wallace Dogood is a young, single man of 20 looking for job during the Depression. What program might provide him assistance?

• AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act
• CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
• REA Rural Electrification Administration
• SSA Social Security Administration

Mayor Boatright and several interested citizens want to bring electricity to their isolated corner of south Georgia. What New Deal Program might best help them?

• AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act
• CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
• REA Rural Electrification Administration
• SSA Social Security Administration

Which of the following BEST explains how the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) planned to help farmers?

• AAA paid farmers to decrease production in the hopes that this would stabilize prices.
• AAA paid young men ages 18-25 to work on government projects and to leave the farm.
• AAA enrolled young men in the military.
• AAA encouraged farmers to increase production to meet world market demands.

How did workers' wages lead to the Depression"

• Workers quit their jobs
• World War
• Workers' wages were too high
• Workers' wages were low

Harrison Carter is now seventy-five years old and has trouble keeping up with the young workers at his job shoveling chicken poop at Davis Green's Egg Emporium. What New Deal program might provide Harrison with a pension to help him get by in his later years?

• AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act
• CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
• REA Rural Electrification Administration
• SSA Social Security Administration

This graph illustrates one of the three strikes facing southern farmers in the 1920s. Which of the three strikes is MOST clearly shown here?

• falling cotton prices
• boll weevil infestation
• stock market crash
• devastating drought

What best characterizes the three strikes facing Georgia farmers in the 1920s?

• boll weevil, world war, high profits
• boll weevil, high profits, drought
• boll weevil, drought, falling prices
• drought, boll weevil, world war

As a result of the problems faced by Georgia farmers, thousands of farmers made what tough decision?

• quit farming and moved to the city.
• grew more cotton than ever.
• went back to college.
• built golf courses on their lands.

What BEST characterizes Eugene Talmadge’s relationship with FDR and the New Deal?

• Talmadge was a great friend of FDR.
• Talmadge hated FDR and considered the New Deal a system of communism.
• Talmadge was a shrewd politician who knew he needed to support FDR to survive.
• Talmadge and FDR were close allies in forging a powerful Republican Party.

Who was the MOST likely audience for this quote from the campaign trail with Eugene Talmadge in 1936?

• poor, white farmers
• poor, white industrial workers
• poor, black farmers
• urban supporters of FDR and the New Deal