Unit 9 Crossword

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  1. 2. Conservation Corps (CCC) the New Deal program that provided jobs for young men such as building state parks and planting trees
  2. 5. in agriculture What caused food prices to drop at the start of the Great Depression?
  3. 8. in purchasing what happens when people lose their jobs
  4. 10. weevil & droughts Two natural disasters that led to farmers either growing less or even giving up on growing cotton in the 1920's
  5. 12. of Pearl Harbor What the Japanese did to attempt to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from stopping their expansion in the Western Pacific Rim.
  6. 14. Talmadge 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.
  7. 15. soak in the springs to help his polio the reason President Roosevelt visited Warm Springs, Georgia
  8. 17. Adjustment Act (AAA) the New Deal program that paid Georgia farmers not to plant cotton to reduce overproduction so that prices of cotton would go up
  9. 18. Market Crash the event that started the Great Depression
  10. 20. need for economic diversification (having different ways or crops to make money) What did Georgia farmers learn from the disasters due to the the boll weevil and the droughts destroying cotton crops in the 1920s?
  11. 21. gardens, buying war bonds, citizens working on military bases, & over 100,000 Georgians serving in the war. Contributions of Georgia to WW I
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  1. 1. Russell an important U.S. Senator from Georgia who brought many military bases to Georgia as well as the Centers for Disease Control
  2. 3. Act the law that Congress passed that allowed the U.S. to sell, rent, or lend war material to its allies, especially Great Britain.
  3. 4. Ships transport ships that were produced in the shipyards in Savannah and Brunswick during WW II
  4. 5. in agriculture, reduction in purchasing, & bank failures Three main causes of the Great Depression
  5. 6. of Pearl Harbor The event that convinced many Americans to demand the U.S. enter WW II
  6. 7. Bomber Plant the plant that employed thousands of workers in Georgia to produced airplanes during and after WW II.
  7. 9. Security (SSA) the New Deal program that provided retirement payments for the elderly and unemployment insurance
  8. 11. for Georgia's citizens Military bases in Georgia helped the military train troops and helped Georgia's economy by providing _______________
  9. 12. failures the reason many average Americans lost all their savings and that businesses and citizens could not get loans during the depression
  10. 13. bases Built in Georgia during WW I due to inexpensive land; led to economic growth in the state.
  11. 16. Electrification Administration (REA) the New Deal program that ran electrical lines to the countryside allowing people in the countryside to be able to use electrical appliances
  12. 19. Vinson Which Georgian served 51 years in the US House of Representatives and helped Georgia's economy by using federal defense funding in the state?
  13. 22. helped them economically. Why did many Georgians like President Roosevelt's New Deal programs?
  14. 23. reliance on cotton for much of their economy which was destroyed by the boll weevil and droughts. The reason why did Georgia and other southern states entered a depression almost 10 years before the rest of the country.