Twenty Questions

1. Twenty Questions Chapter 7 By: Elijah Bennett Corbett Harwood

2. Twenty Questions

3. 1. What is a boll weevil? • An insect that destroyed cotton crops in the South.

4. 2. What impact did overproduction have on Georgia farmers? • Caused farm prices to drop and made it difficult for farmers to get out of debt.

5. 3. What was the Great Depression and what are three factors that helped cause it? • It was the worst financial crisis in US history that lasted throughout the 1930’s. Overproduction, Boll Weevil, Consumerism, and Stock Market Crash.

6. 4. What was the name of President Roosevelt’s programs designed to help people during the Great Depression? • The New Deal.

7. 5. Which of the following provided money for people who were out of work as well as retirement pay during and after the Great Depression? • Social Security.

8. 6. How did Eugene Talmadge feel about FDR’s federal programs? • He opposed it, he believed that the federal government should stay out of state matters.

9. 7. How did he manage to win the support of the poor, white farmers despite his views on the New Deal and backing policies that sometimes hurt farmer rather than helped them? • He preached white supremacy and related well to “country folk”.

10. 8. Which of the following would FDR and Eugene Talmadge have most agreed on? • A. farmers needing relief during the Great Depression. • B. Georgia needing the New Deal to help it economically. • C. Social Security. • D. the federal government’s proper role during an economic crisis.

11. 9. Which of the following would a cotton farmer in Georgia Most have feared in the 1920’s? • A. Great Migration • B. prosperity • C. the boll weevil • D. subsidies

12. 10. A farmer who grows more than one crop has done what? • A. subsidized • B. consumed rather than saved • C. overproduced • D. diversified

13. 11. Overproduction, falling stock prices, and consumerism all contributed to what? • A. the boll weevil • B. the Great Migration • C. the Great Depression • D. droughts

14. 12. Which of the following best describes President Roosevelt’s approach to dealing with the Great Depression? • A. He wanted the government to do as little as possible because he believed the economy would eventually fix itself. • B. He believed in using government programs to end the crisis. • C. He believed the states, rather than the federal government, should be responsible for dealing with economic problems. • D. He wanted farmers to produce more cotton so that they could get out of debt.

15. 13. How did the Agricultural Adjustment Act help Georgia’s farmers? • A. It paid them not to produce certain crops in an effort to raise farm prices. • B. It paid them to produce more cotton so they could make more money. • C. It ended subsidies. • D. It paid farmers to move to Georgia as part of the Great Migration.

16. 14. Which of the following is still around today? • A. the Great Depression • B. Social Security • C. the CCC • D. the REA

17. 15. Which statement is true regarding Eugene Talmadge? • A. He was governor of Georgia when the boll weevil arrived. • B. He was a huge supporter of the New Deal. • C. He caused great controversy by claiming that blacks had the same rights as whites. • D. He was the biggest political hero to Georgia’s white, rural farmers since Tom Watson.

18. 16. What was diversification? • When the President asked farmers to grow crops other than cotton to lower overproduction and raise farm prices.

19. 17. What was the Stock Market Crash? • When stock prices dropped so much it caused a financial panic.

20. 18. What is Black Tuesday? • The day the Stock Market Crashed.

21. 19. Who was the President during the Great Depression? • President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

22. 20. What was the New Deal program? • A series of acts and movements the help get America out of the Great Depression.