AKS 38 WWI and Great Depression Quiz

Which New Deal program paid farmers a stipend not to grow crops in order to increase the price of agricultural products?

• Social Security Administration (SSA)

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Rural Electrification Act (REA)

What is one of the factors that led to the Great Depression when a bank ran out of reserves to pay customers who wanted to withdraw their deposits?

• Overproduction

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Bank Failures

• Reduction in Purchasing

What insect decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States by feeding on cotton crops?

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Dust Bowl

• Boll Weevil

• Lusitania

Which New Deal program hired unemployed young men to work on public works projects?

• Drought of 1924

• Eugene Talmadge

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

What was one of the worst droughts in Georgia's history that led to a depression in the state that predated the Great Depression?

• Drought of 1924

• Warm Springs

• Dust Bowl

• World War I (1914-1918)

What was the name given to a period of time in the Midwest characterized by drought, gigantic dust storms, and major agricultural damage?

• Dust Bowl

• World War I (1914-1918)

• Lusitania

• Great Depression

Who was the four-time Georgia governor that fought against the New Deal policies?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Eugene Talmadge

• Lusitania

• Zimmerman Telegram

Who is credited with pulling America out of the Great Depression with his New Deal policies?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Eugene Talmadge

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Lusitania

What was the major war primarily between European powers, in which the U.S. entered in 1917?

• Great Depression

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Warm Springs

• World War I (1914-1918)

What was the New Deal program designed to build the capabilities to bring electricity to rural areas?

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Social Security Administration (SSA)

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Rural Electrification Act (REA)