Unit 8 Crossword (final project)
Across
- 5. the New Deal program that ran electrical lines to the countryside allowing people in the countryside to be able to use electrical appliances
- 6. the reason many average Americans lost all their savings and that businesses and citizens could not get loans during the depression
- 8. Which Georgian served 51 years in the US House of Representatives and helped Georgia's economy by using federal defense funding in the state?
- 9. the New Deal program that provided retirement payments for the elderly and unemployment insurance
- 10. an important U.S. Senator from Georgia who brought many military bases to Georgia as well as the Centers for Disease Control
- 11. the governor of Georgia who fought New Deal programs in Georgia because they expanded power of the national government and gave aid to African Americans.
- 13. bases Built in Georgia during WW I due to inexpensive land; led to economic growth in the state.
Down
- 1. the event that started the Great Depression
- 2. transport ships that were produced in the shipyards in Savannah and Brunswick during WW II
- 3. victory gardens, buying war bonds, citizens working on military bases, & over 100,000 Georgians serving in the war.
- 4. the law that Congress passed that allowed the U.S. to sell, rent, or lend war material to its allies, especially Great Britain.
- 7. the New Deal program that provided jobs for young men such as building state parks and planting trees
- 12. the New Deal program that paid Georgia farmers not to plant cotton to reduce overproduction so that prices of cotton would go up