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4) Why did the South not feel the effects of the Great Depression the way other parts of the country
experienced it?
The South was already experiencing the effects of a drought and the boll weevil.
5) How did the lost of farms due to crop failures and debts hurt the farmers?
Many farm related businesses failed. Banks who had loaned money to farmers closed.
6) What was the single biggest reason that hurt cotton farms?
The Boll Weevil
7) What region of the United States was most affected by the infestation of the boll weevil?
The Southeast
10) How did the arrival of the Boll Weevil affect the Sharecropper and Tenant Farmer?
Many of them moved away from rural Georgia
11) Where did the Boll Weevil first enter the United States?
Texas
12) What are the four causes of the Great Depression listed in your notes?
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Bank failures
Overproduction
Underconsumption
13) How did the overproduction of products and lack of purchasing factor into the Great Depression?
It caused prices to fall on most consumer goods
16) What was the percentage of Americans without jobs during the Great Depression?
25% 1 out of 4 people did not have a job
18) What would one consider the immediate effect of more than half the population living below the poverty
line?
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
19) Who was the GA governor that strongly opposed the New Deal?
Eugene Talmadge
20) How did most Georgians feel about the New Deal programs?
Most Georgians welcomed the help from the government
21) What was the major misjudgement that Governor Talmadge made in regards to the people of GA?
He thought they did not support the New Deal
22) Why did Governor Talmadge oppose the New Deal programs?
He thought it was too much government control.
23) Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt? What city did he consider home in GA?
He was president and considered Warm Springs, GA his second home.
24) Why was Warm Springs the site of his “Little White House”?
The waters of Warm Springs helped him with polio.
25) What was the impact of FDR spending so much time in GA? (how did it help GA)
He saw the plight of the poor farmers and he offered many programs to the state.
28) During the Great Depression, what showed the Government was more involved in the direction of the
country?
The New Deal
39) Who was the president of the United States during the Great Depression?
40) How did the New Deal impact the state of Georgia?
It improved people’s lives but failed to end the Great Depression