Early 20th Century Georgia
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- 4. what happens when people lose their jobs
- 6. freed up agricultural produce, packaging, and transportation resources for the war effort, and helped offset shortages of agricultural workers.
- 8. Economic downturn across the U.S. and the world that led to huge unemployment
- 9. Roosevelt Created the New Deal
- 10. Two natural disasters that led to farmers either growing less or even giving up on growing cotton in the 1920's
- 11. B.29 bombers. Created thousands of jobs and brought airline manufacturing industry to Georgia
- 13. Surprise attack on Hawaii by the Japanese that convinced Americans to support fighting in world war 2
- 16. the New Deal program that paid Georgia farmers not to plant cotton to reduce overproduction so that prices of cotton would go up
- 19. Georgia's transportation infrastructure was used to move soldiers and war materials to the front lines
- 20. the New Deal program that provided retirement payments for the elderly and unemployment insurance
- 21. the New Deal program that ran electrical lines to the countryside allowing people in the countryside to be able to use electrical appliances
- 22. Which Georgian served 51 years in the US House of Representatives and helped Georgia's economy by using federal defense funding in the state?
- 23. the law that Congress passed that allowed the U.S. to sell, rent, or lend war material to its allies, especially Great Britain.
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- 1. What caused African-Americans to move North?
- 2. an important U.S. Senator from Georgia who brought many military bases to Georgia as well as the Centers for Disease Control
- 3. transport ships that were produced in the shipyards in Savannah and Brunswick during WW II
- 5. the event that started the Great Depression
- 7. the New Deal program that provided jobs for young men such as building state parks and planting trees
- 12. A bug that eats cotton
- 14. the reason many average Americans lost all their savings and that businesses and citizens could not get loans during the depression
- 15. 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.
- 17. The government used a strong propaganda campaign to appeal to the nation's patriotism and encourage Americans to buy _____ _____ as a symbol of patriotic duty
- 18. Built in Georgia during WW I due to inexpensive land; led to economic growth in the state.