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Chapter 21:  The 1920s and the Coming of the Great Depression


Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 
A system in which a series of workers and machines work to add individual parts to a product is known as a(n)
A.
assembly line.
B.
installment plan.
C.
surplus products.
D.
purchasing power.
 

 2. 
The first pilot to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic was
A.
Henry Grady.
B.
Alonzo Herndon.
C.
Winston Churchill.
D.
Charles Lindbergh.
 

 3. 
Who won the governership in 1930 by promising to reorganize state government?
A.
Ellis Arnall
B.
Jimmy Carter
C.
Richard Russell
D.
Eugene Talmadge
 

 4. 
Which Georgia governor was nicknamed “Wild Man from Sugar Creek?”
A.
Ellis Arnall
B.
Jimmy Carter
C.
Richard Russell
D.
Eugene Talmadge
 

 5. 
Which was an accomplishment of Governor Richard Russell?
A.
The government was consolidated.
B.
The state constitution was rewritten.
C.
The university system was integrated.
D.
The state prison system was reformed.
 

 6. 
What destroyed much of Georgia’s cotton crop in the early 1900s?
A.
flea beetle
B.
boll weevil
C.
fall armyworm
D.
silverleaf whitefly
 

 7. 
At roughly the same time the boll weevil was destroying Georgia’s cotton crop, what other natural disaster struck Georgia?
A.
fire
B.
drought
C.
hurricane
D.
earthquake
 

 8. 
Which was NOT a factor leading to the Great Depression?
A.
an over production of goods
B.
increased industrial investment
C.
speculation in the stock market
D.
banks overloaned to consumers
 

 9. 
What time period is being described in the box below?
Farms failed.
Banks closed.
Factories shut down.
Unemployment rose.
A.
World War I
B.
Reconstruction
C.
The New South
D.
The Great Depression
 

 10. 
In the 1920s, Georgia was not affected by
A.
boll weevils.
B.
a prolonged drought.
C.
a jump in cotton production and prices.
D.
the loss of thousands of working farms.
 



 
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