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Choose 3 contributions made by Georgia during WWI.

• military bases for training troops

• volunteers for military duty

• private citizens grew Victory Gardens to help provide food

• Georgia built tanks to send to Europe

• Georgia supplied internet equipment to aide in communication

Read carefully. What event is a result of the actions listed?

over use of credit risky loans to other countries over production of goods, including produce over selling of stocks

• The Industrial Revolution

• WWI

• The Great Depression

• Reconstruction Era

This guy didn't want a New Deal for all Americans, only those that were like him. Who is he?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Eugene Talmadge

• Ellis Arnall

• Abraham Lincoln

FDRs New Deal programs were designed to help_____

• only whites

• only people of color

• all citizens of the US

Choose the two environmental factors that helped lead to the Great Depression.

• boll weevil and intense flooding

• bowling silk worm and forest fires

• boll weevil and severe drought

• bowling silk worm and drought

Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt consider Georgia to be his second home, near and dear to his heart?

• He was originally born in Georgia and later returned.

• He visited often, had a home here, and engaged with the people.

• He came to Georgia for medical procedures once a month.

• He loved the southern food and came here to eat.

Two New Deal Programs aimed at helping country folks in Georgia were the

• Ag Adjustment Act and Rural Free Delivery Act

• Ag. Adjustment Act and the Rural Electrification Act.

• Social Security and Bailout Loans

All of the following happened during the Great Depression except________

• banks had no money and closed their doors.

• many people lost their savings, their jobs, and their homes.

• many people left the Southern farms in search of work.

• Population in rural areas increased.

Many Georgians grew Victory Gardens during WWI because

• roof top gardens were a new cool, hip thing to have.

• many food items were rationed inorder to send more to the troops.

• there was a famine in the U.S.

• the government forced them to do so.

The County Unit System gave an advantage to the rural, farm areas by

• giving a certain number of votes based on catagory (rural, town, urban) instead of based on population

• giving a certain number of votes based on population

• giving a certain number of votes based on the amount of agriculture within the county

• giving every county in Georgia an equal amount of voting power