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  1. 4. were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation,
  2. 5. introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, China, and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945.
  3. 7. He also initiated the development of the world's first atomic bomb and worked with the other Allied leaders to lay the groundwork for the United Nations and other post-war institutions.
  4. 9. He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement. In 1965 he persuaded the Braves to move to Atlanta from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  5. 10. economic development in the midst of the Great Depression, and balanced the state budget.
  6. 12. The first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University
  7. 15. He was the only Democrat appointed to the Morrow Board, which reviewed the status of aviation in America in the mid-1920s. In 1931, Vinson became chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee.
  8. 16. served as mayor of Atlanta for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city's history.
  9. 18. German-speaking Protestant refugees from the Catholic Archbishopric
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  1. 1. a person who is dissatisfied and rebellious.
  2. 2. He was elected as state agriculture commissioner in 1926.
  3. 3. a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal
  4. 6. one of the most successful Black-owned insurance businesses in the nation.
  5. 8. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others
  6. 10. related left-wing movements of the late 19th century that wanted to curtail the power of the corporate and financial establishment
  7. 11. Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor.
  8. 13. Governor of Georgia, 1931–1933
  9. 14. someone who works land that's rented from its owner.
  10. 17. convicted murderer
  11. 19. He became a noted writer and perhaps the most prominent African American leader of his time.