Unit 8 Crossword (final project)

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Across
  1. 5. the New Deal program that ran electrical lines to the countryside allowing people in the countryside to be able to use electrical appliances
  2. 6. the reason many average Americans lost all their savings and that businesses and citizens could not get loans during the depression
  3. 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?
  4. 9. the New Deal program that provided retirement payments for the elderly and unemployment insurance
  5. 10. an important U.S. Senator from Georgia who brought many military bases to Georgia as well as the Centers for Disease Control
  6. 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.
  7. 13. bases Built in Georgia during WW I due to inexpensive land; led to economic growth in the state.
Down
  1. 1. the event that started the Great Depression
  2. 2. transport ships that were produced in the shipyards in Savannah and Brunswick during WW II
  3. 3. victory gardens, buying war bonds, citizens working on military bases, & over 100,000 Georgians serving in the war.
  4. 4. the law that Congress passed that allowed the U.S. to sell, rent, or lend war material to its allies, especially Great Britain.
  5. 7. the New Deal program that provided jobs for young men such as building state parks and planting trees
  6. 12. the New Deal program that paid Georgia farmers not to plant cotton to reduce overproduction so that prices of cotton would go up