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Great Depression and New Deal Test
Directions: Circle the letter for the correct answer.
1. A cotton farmer in Georgia right after World War
I would have been most concerned about
A. The boll weevil
B. Black Tuesday
C. Agricultural Adjustment Act
D. Populism
2. What is a boll weevil?
A. Someone who buys more than they can
save
B. An insect that destroyed cotton crops in the
South
C. An African American who moved north
during the 1920s
D. A farmer who refused to move to the city
despite hard economic times
3. Overproduction, falling stock prices, and
consumerism all contributed to what?
A. World War II
B. The Great Migration
C. The Great Depression
D. The New Deal
4. Which of the following was an effect of the Great
Depression on Georgia?
A. Cotton prices rose.
B. Public education thrived because people left
farms to get an education.
C. More people left the cities for rural areas.
D. More people left farms and moved to the
cities.
5. Which event triggered the Great Depression?
A. Atlanta Riot
B. Treaty ending World War I
C. Stock Market Crash in 1929
D. 1938 World’s Fair
6. Which of the following is not a result of the stock
market crash in 1929?
A. People were forced to sell their homes.
B. Businesses increased production.
C. Banks ran out of money.
D. Savings accounts were emptied.
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7. During the Great Depression, the federal
government paid farmers subsidies in an effort to
A. End segregation.
B. Increase cotton production.
C. End overproduction.
D. Buy out farms.
8. Who was president of the United States when
the Great Depression began?
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. John F. Kennedy
C. Eugene Talmadge
D. Herbert Hoover
9. Which of the following areas saw the greatest
decrease in population during the Great
Depression?
A. Rural Georgia
B. Atlanta
C. Savannah
D. Northern cities
10. Which of the following best describes President
Roosevelt’s approach to dealing with the Great
Depression?
A. He wanted farmers to produce more cotton
so that they could get out of debt.
B. He believed in using government programs
to end the crisis.
C. He believed that states should be
responsible for solving their own problems
without help from the national government.
D. He wanted the government to do as little as
possible because he believed the economy
would fix itself.
11. What was the name of President Roosevelt’s
plan to help people during the Great Depression?
A. New Deal
B. Great Migration
C. CCC
D. Consumerism
12. Which program provided money for people who
were out of work as well as retirement pay during
and after the Great Depression?
A. Civilian Conservation Corps
B. Rural Electrification Administration
C. Agricultural Adjustment Act
D. Social Security
13 Which New Deal program put young men to
work preserving the nation’s national resources?
A. Agricultural Adjustment Act
B. Civilian Conservation Corps
C. Social Security
D. Rural Electrification Administration
14. Which of the following is still around today?
A. Civilian Conservation Corps
B. Rural Electrification Administration
C. Social Security
D. Tennessee Valley Authority
15. Which New Deal program helped raise the price
of cotton in Georgia?
A. Agricultural Adjustment Act
B. Social Security Act
C. Works Progress Administration
D. Civilian Conservation Corps
16. How did the Agricultural Adjustment Act help
Georgia’s farmers?
A. It ended subsidies.
B. It paid farmers to produce more cotton so
they could make more money.
C. It paid farmers to most to Georgia as part
of the Great Migration.
D. It paid farmers not to produce certain crops
in an effort to raise farm prices.
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17. A farmer who grows more than one crop has
done what?
A. Subsidized
B. Overproduced
C. Diversified
D. Sharecropped
18. Which program brought electric power to
Georgia’s farms?
A. Social Security
B. Rural Electrification Administration
C. Civilian Conservation Corps
D. Agricultural Adjustment Act
19. The New Deal came later to Georgia than many
other southern areas because
A. Roosevelt did not like Georgia.
B. Georgians were not hit as hard by the
Depression.
C. Republicans were too powerful in Georgia
and would not back Roosevelt’s policies.
D. Governor Eugene Talmadge resisted federal
intervention in state affairs.
20. Which of the following would FDR and Eugene
Talmadge have most agreed on?
A. Social Security
B. Farmers needing relief during the Great
Depression
C. The federal government’s proper role during
an economic crisis
D. Georgia needing the New Deal’s programs
to help it economically
21. Which statement explains the impact of the
New Deal on Georgia?
A. Georgia became a national leader in
computer manufacturing.
B. The programs caused many Native
Americans to move out of the state and
onto reservations in Oklahoma.
C. Many army bases in Georgia were built in
order to prepare for World War II.
D. The Rural Electrification Administration
caused many rural regions to receive
electricity for the first time.
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