Across
- 2. Arnall, progressive Georgia governor who is credited for restoring accreditation to
- 3. major league sports teams to Atlanta, and a key figure in the civil rights movement.
- 5. Security Act, New Deal program that provided retirement and unemployment
- 8. Allen, mayor of Atlanta who was instrumental in the development of the city,
- 10. Adjustment Act, a New Deal program that paid farmers a stipend not to grow
- 11. on public works projects.
- 12. Thompson, the first person elected to the office of lieutenant governor of Georgia;
- 13. Migration, the mass migration of six million African-Americans or Blacks to the North between the years 1910-1970.
- 15. Talmadge, Georgia Governor and U.S. Senator; son of Governor Eugene
- 16. Vinson, Georgia Congressman who was an advocate for a strong U.S. military;
- 18. as the state's governor in 1947-1948. He is best remembered for his fight with Herman Talmadge over the governorship after the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in 1946.
- 21. to rural areas.
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- 1. to the city and worked with civil rights leaders during the civil rights movement.
- 4. for American taxpayers.
- 6. Electrification Act, the New Deal program designed to build the capabilities to bring
- 7. B. Hartsfield, Atlanta’s longest serving mayor who was instrumental in bring
- 9. Deal, name given to a series of federal programs spearheaded by President Franklin Roosevelt in order to help the nation recover from the Great Depression.
- 14. Russel, Georgia governor and influential long term U.S. Senator.
- 17. 25 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, making him the longest serving Congressmen in U.S. history
- 19. Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that hired unemployed young men to
- 20. state’s institutions of higher education, lowering the voting age, and abolishing the poll tax.
- 22. in order to increase the price of agricultural products.