Unit 7Jeopardy – 6th Period
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ATLANTA
CHEROKEE
WOODSTK
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from GA
What were subsidies?
$100 Answer from GA
Payments made to someone
to stop producing a good
$200 Question from GA
Define Civilian
Conservation Corp
$200 Answer from GA
Program that hired men to
build projects for the gov’t
$300 Question from GA
What two things
contributed to the USA
becoming involved in
WWI?
$300 Answer from GA
1. The Zimmerman
Telegram.
2. Sinking of American
Cargo ships &
Lusitania
$400 Question from GA
What were Georgia’s
contributions to WWI?
$400 Answer from GA
Georgia provided needed
textiles, food, and military
bases for the war effort.
$500 Question from GA
What did overproduction do to
Georgia farmers?
$500 Answer from GA
Caused farm prices to drop and
made it difficult for farmers to get
out of debt.
$100 Question from PIEDMONT
Define
Overproduction
$100 Answer from PIEDMONT
Producing more
products than people
could buy
$200 Question from PIEDMONT
What is a boll weevil?
$200 Answer from PIEDMONT
An insect that
destroyed cotton crops
in the South.
$300 Question from PIEDMONT
Overproduction, falling
stock prices, and
consumerism all
contributed to what major
event in US history?
$300 Answer from PIEDMONT
The stock market
crash & the Great
Depression
$400 Question from PIEDMONT
How did President
Roosevelt’s deal with
the Great
Depression? What
was his plan?
$400 Answer from PIEDMONT
He developed a series of
federal government
economic plans, called the
New Deal, to get the
country’s economy going
again
$500 Question from PIEDMONT
Describe Eugene
Talmadge – how did he
feel about the farmers,
how did he feel about
blacks, race relations?
$500 Answer from PIEDMONT
Eugene Talmadge
supported the rural white
farmer; he did things to help
them while he was in office.
He was racist and a white
supremacist.
$100 Question from ATLANTA
Define Drought
$100 Answer from ATLANTA
Lack of rain for a long
period of time
$200 Question from ATLANTA
What does it mean
to have
diversification of
your crops?
$200 Answer from ATLANTA
It means to grow
different crops;
not just one crop
$300 Question from ATLANTA
How did the Agricultural
Adjustment Act help Georgia’s
farmers?
$300 Answer from ATLANTA
It paid them not to
produce certain
crops in an effort to
raise farm prices.
$400 Question from ATLANTA
How did Georgians feel
about the Selective
Service Act during
WWI?
$400 Answer from ATLANTA
Many Georgians
opposed the act
because they
feared it would
hurt farmers.
$500 Question from ATLANTA
What led to World War II in
Europe?
$500 Answer from ATLANTA
The rise of dictators &
totalitarian leaders like
Mussolini and Hitler
$100 Question from
CHEROKEE
Define Social Security Act
$100 Answer from CHEROKEE
Program that provided
unemployment and
retirement benefits
$200 Question from
CHEROKEE
Why did Japan bomb
Pearl Harbor?
$200 Answer from CHEROKEE
They feared the US
naval fleet anchored
there and wanted to
destroy it.
$300 Question from
CHEROKEE
What were the
“Liberty Ships”?
Where were they
produced?
$300 Answer from CHEROKEE
WWII Ships constructed at
Georgia shipyards –
Savannah & Brunswick
$400 Question from
CHEROKEE
What types of people
would have supported
the Lend-Lease act?
$400 Answer from CHEROKEE
British military &
citizens; Americans
who supported
helping Great Britain
$500 Question from
CHEROKEE
Describe the Lend Lease
Act and explain WHY this
helped pull American into
WWII
$500 Answer from CHEROKEE
Allowed Britain to borrow or lease supplies,
equipment, and food for its fight against
Germany.
This brought America into the War by making
us an enemy of Germany by supplying Britain
$100 Question from
WOODSTOCK
Define Agricultural Adjustment
Act
$100 Answer from
WOODSTOCK
Program that paid farmers
NOT to produce certain
crops
$200 Question from
WOODSTOCK
What was Roosevelt’s
connection to Georgia?
$200 Answer from
WOODSTOCK
Warm Springs, GA is
where he received Polio
treatments and built the
“Little White House”
$300 Question from
WOODSTOCK
The Holocaust impacted what
groups of people?
$300 Answer from
WOODSTOCK
Jewish People
$400 Question from
WOODSTOCK
List at least 2 ways that the Bell Aircraft Plant in
Marietta helped Georgians and the
War effort.
$400 Answer from
WOODSTOCK
It produced more than 600 bomber
planes
created many new jobs in Marietta
$500 Question from
WOODSTOCK
What was Carl Vinson
Know for?
$500 Answer from
WOODSTOCK
50 years in U.S. House of Representativeslongest in history
House Naval Affairs Committee
“Father of the Two-Ocean Navy”- the
U.S. must strengthen its navy in order to
remain secure
credited with the U.S.’s ability to win the war
in the Pacific because of his efforts in
Congress
$100 Question from WMS
Define Rural
Electrification Act
$100 Answer from WMS
Program that
brought electricity
to rural areas
$200 Question from WMS
What was Georgia’s
greatest military
contribution to the war
effort?
$200 Answer from WMS
The building of war
ships in Savannah
and Brunswick &
building of bomber
plans in Marietta
$300 Question from WMS
What was President Franklin
Roosevelt talking about when
he referred to December 7,
1941, as “a day what will live in
infamy”?
$300 Answer from WMS
The bombing of
Pearl Harbor
$400 Question from WMS
When did the Great
Depression start
and What DECADE
did the Great
Depression occur
within?
$400 Answer from WMS
1929
The 1930’s
$500 Question from WMS
What was something that
Talmadge & Roosevelt
would have agreed upon
regarding farmers?
$500 Answer from WMS
That farmers needed
assistance during the Great
Depression
Final Jeopardy
What was the Yalta conference
and
who attended?
Final Jeopardy Answer
Peace conference at the end of
WWII.
Britain (Churchill), Russia (Stalin),
and USA (Roosevelt) attended.