WorksheetsGeorgia in the 1900's
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 13mins
_______________ was known as the "Mother of the Blues."
Coretta Scott King
Rosie the Riveter
Missy Elliott
Ma Rainey
Ma Fratelli
In 1920, women gained the right to vote through which amendment?
14th
15th
18th
19th
The oldest radio station in Georgia is ________.
News Channel 9
Fox News
CNN
WSB
When Southerners (especially African-Americans) moved North in the mid-1920's for work in cities, this was nicknamed The ___________________.
Suburbanization
Industry Gap
Great Migration
Reconstruction
Many Southern farmers moved from their family farms to ______________ in search of work during the 1920's and 1930's.
Detroit
Dalton
Augusta
Atlanta
The first man to fly nonstop between New York and Paris in his airplane named "The Spirit of St. Lewis" was named __________________.
Charles Lindbergh
Ames Earhart
Orville Wright
Pilot Pete
On "Black Tuesday," in October 1929, the U.S. Stock Market _____________________ sending our nation into a severe depression.
closed
crashed
recessed
amended
_________________ 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.
FDR
Teddy Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Bill Clinton
____________________ was the president who promised to help our nation out of the Great Depression with his "New Deal" programs.
FDR
Teddy Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Ronald Reagan
The ____________ now insures bank accounts in the U.S. up to $100,000 per account.
CCC
Federal Reserve
FDIC
Stock Market
______________was a New Deal program that constructed the Chickamauga Dam (and many other hydroelectric dams) nearby.
CCC
REA
AAA
TVA
The _____________ provided federal jobs for (mostly) single men building parks and forest trails and planting trees.
REA
AAA
TVA
CCC
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.
Tiger Woods
Bobby Jones
Phil Mickelson
Augustus Clemens
The novel ______________________ was written by Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her efforts.
Gone with the Wind
Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil
God's Little Acre
The Odyssey
President FDR's Little White House was in ___________, GA.
Plains
Americus
Warm Springs
Radium Springs
Union organizers tried unsuccessfully to start labor unions in Georgia's _______________________.
car factories
textile mills
steel factories
farms
The United States entered World War II as a result of the 1941 bombing of _____________________.
The Phillippines
The World Trade Center
Fort Sumter
Pearl Harbor
Adolf Hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jewish people and the other "undesirables" was called the __________________.
Holocaust
Imperialism
Axis Philosophy
Massacre
The father of America's two-ocean navy was _______________.
Richard B. Russell
Carl Vinson
Eugene Talmadge
Eurith Rivers
During World War II, Georgians planted ______________ to maintain a food supply during wartime.
Victory Gardens
War Gardens
Organic Gardens
Communal Gardens
World War II ended when the US dropped atom bombs on which Japanese cities?
Tokyo, Hiroshima
Tokyo, Nagasaki
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Hiroshima, Kyoto
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___________________.
Carl Vinson
Richard B. Russell
Eugene Talmadge
Eurith Rivers
