Early 20th Century Georgia

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