Georgia Through Conflict

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Across
  1. 2. A destructive pest that was known for destroying the cotton crops of farmers in Georgia
  2. 3. A member of the the US House of Representatives who worked to improve and strengthen the US navy and national defense and was known as “The Father of The Two-Ocean Navy”
  3. 6. A company that established a bomber plant in Marietta, and was responsible for the production of bombers and other aircraft in wars such as World War II
  4. 8. An event in which numerous people sold away their stocks for cheap prices, as the prices of stock began to rapidly go down
  5. 11. a period of economic recession in America that mainly occurred in the 1930s, marked by poverty, unemployment, lack of banks and business, and little to no economic growth, and primarily caused by failing banks and the crash of the stock market due to lack of responsibility by citizens and regulation in the stock market/speculation (i.e. citizens usually bought stocks on credit and borrowed money from banks, which plunged many into debt and poverty)
  6. 12. An act passed in March 1941 that allowed the US to provide supplies and materials to countries without directly being involved in a conflict
  7. 14. A conflict that started in Europe after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and was considered one of the bloodiest and largest wars in history with the widespread use of new technology such as machine guns and airplanes
  8. 16. A state legislator, Georgia governor, and US senator who supported FDR, worked to strengthen national defense, and opposed civil rights legislation, believing it to be against states’ rights
  9. 17. An establishment that oversaw and gave loans to companies to build power lines to deliver electricity to rural areas
Down
  1. 1. When Japanese planes attacked a US naval base in Hawaii, which caused the US to join World War II
  2. 3. An establishment that gave jobs to young, unmarried men between 18 and 25, who would be put in work camps to create roads, forests, irrigation canals, national parks, etc.
  3. 4. An act that provided benefits and insurance for workers, the elderly, orphans, disabled, unemployed, etc.
  4. 5. An event that occurred when the prices of stock began to plummet in 1929, leading to the Great Depression
  5. 7. An act that paid farmers money to not to produce crops such as cotton to raise their crop prices and diversify the crops they grew
  6. 9. A racist governor of Georgia who opposed the New Deal and appealed to rural farmers
  7. 10. The president of the US during most of WW2 and the Great Depression, who established the New Deal and was known for visiting Warm Springs in Georgia to treat his polio
  8. 13. A program that was created by FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) in order to mainly provide help to the poor and US citizens, put people to work, and to adjust/better regulate the economy
  9. 15. A period of little rain that results in land becoming dry and crops dying off