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Georgia in the 1900's

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

_______________ was known as the "Mother of the Blues."

a)

Coretta Scott King

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Missy Elliott

d)

Ma Rainey

e)

Ma Fratelli

2.

In 1920, women gained the right to vote through which amendment?

a)

14th

b)

15th

c)

18th

d)

19th

3.

The oldest radio station in Georgia is ________.

a)

News Channel 9

b)

Fox News

c)

CNN

d)

WSB

4.

When Southerners (especially African-Americans) moved North in the mid-1920's for work in cities, this was nicknamed The ___________________.

a)

Suburbanization

b)

Industry Gap

c)

Great Migration

d)

Reconstruction

5.

Many Southern farmers moved from their family farms to ______________ in search of work during the 1920's and 1930's.

a)

Detroit

b)

Dalton

c)

Augusta

d)

Atlanta

6.

The first man to fly nonstop between New York and Paris in his airplane named "The Spirit of St. Lewis" was named __________________.

a)

Charles Lindbergh

b)

Ames Earhart

c)

Orville Wright

d)

Pilot Pete

7.

On "Black Tuesday," in October 1929, the U.S. Stock Market _____________________ sending our nation into a severe depression.

a)

closed

b)

crashed

c)

recessed

d)

amended

8.

_________________ was a president during the Great Depression who believed that the government should not mess with the economy. He believed that charities, churches, etc. should care for the needy.

a)

FDR

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Bill Clinton

9.

____________________ was the president who promised to help our nation out of the Great Depression with his "New Deal" programs.

a)

FDR

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Ronald Reagan

10.

The ____________ now insures bank accounts in the U.S. up to $100,000 per account.

a)

CCC

b)

Federal Reserve

c)

FDIC

d)

Stock Market

11.

______________was a New Deal program that constructed the Chickamauga Dam (and many other hydroelectric dams) nearby.

a)

CCC

b)

REA

c)

AAA

d)

TVA

12.

The _____________ provided federal jobs for (mostly) single men building parks and forest trails and planting trees.

a)

REA

b)

AAA

c)

TVA

d)

CCC

13.

In 1931, Georgian _____________ opened the Augusta National Golf Club, which is home each year to the Master's, one of golf's four major tournaments.

a)

Tiger Woods

b)

Bobby Jones

c)

Phil Mickelson

d)

Augustus Clemens

14.

The novel ______________________ was written by Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her efforts.

a)

Gone with the Wind

b)

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil

c)

God's Little Acre

d)

The Odyssey

15.

President FDR's Little White House was in ___________, GA.

a)

Plains

b)

Americus

c)

Warm Springs

d)

Radium Springs

16.

Union organizers tried unsuccessfully to start labor unions in Georgia's _______________________.

a)

car factories

b)

textile mills

c)

steel factories

d)

farms

17.

The United States entered World War II as a result of the 1941 bombing of _____________________.

a)

The Phillippines

b)

The World Trade Center

c)

Fort Sumter

d)

Pearl Harbor

18.

Adolf Hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jewish people and the other "undesirables" was called the __________________.

a)

Holocaust

b)

Imperialism

c)

Axis Philosophy

d)

Massacre

19.

The father of America's two-ocean navy was _______________.

a)

Richard B. Russell

b)

Carl Vinson

c)

Eugene Talmadge

d)

Eurith Rivers

20.

During World War II, Georgians planted ______________ to maintain a food supply during wartime.

a)

Victory Gardens

b)

War Gardens

c)

Organic Gardens

d)

Communal Gardens

21.

World War II ended when the US dropped atom bombs on which Japanese cities?

a)

Tokyo, Hiroshima

b)

Tokyo, Nagasaki

c)

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

d)

Hiroshima, Kyoto

22.

The Georgian who became known as the "Father of the School Lunch Program" and who fought to keep military bases in our state following WWII was___________________.

a)

Carl Vinson

b)

Richard B. Russell

c)

Eugene Talmadge

d)

Eurith Rivers