Government/Constitution
This section of the Constitution explains its purposes and principles.
What is the Preamble?
This event happened on December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked a U.S. naval base in Hawaii.
What is the attack on Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This machine replaced many farm workers by helping plow fields faster after World War II.
What is a tractor?
This mayor called Atlanta “the city too busy to hate.”
Who is William B. Hartsfield?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
These three branches of government are found in both the U.S. and Georgia Constitutions.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
Japan resented the United States because America provided aid to this country during the Japanese invasion.
What is China?
This policy supported staying out of foreign wars during the 1930s.
What is isolationism?
This Atlanta mayor supported Civil Rights and helped desegregate businesses.
Who is Ivan Allen Jr.?
This Supreme Court case ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were legal in 1896.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Why is Article VIII important to Georgia students?
What is it establishes public education and laws affecting Georgia schools?
How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt use his “Day of Infamy” speech to persuade Congress and the American people to support entering World War II after the attack on Attack on Pearl Harbor?
Answer: What is by describing the attack as sudden and unprovoked, uniting the nation, and asking Congress to declare war on Japan?
These two events helped push many Americans toward isolationism in the 1930s.
What are the Great Depression and World War I?
Why was the 1946 election important beyond the Three Governors Controversy?
What is African Americans were allowed to vote in Georgia primaries for the first time?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Analyze one major difference between the U.S. Constitution and the Georgia Constitution.
What is Georgia voters elect judges, while the U.S. President is chosen through the Electoral College?
How did the building of military bases and shipyards during World War II help change Georgia’s economy?
What is they created thousands of jobs, increased wages, and raised Georgia’s state income through wartime production?
How did the Lend-Lease Act help the Allies before the U.S. entered WWII?
What is it provided money, weapons, and supplies to support their war effort?
his controversy involved three men claiming to be governor of Georgia in 1946.
What is the Three Governors Controversy?
This Georgia commission held hearings to learn public opinion about school integration.
Answer: What is the Sibley Commission?
Evaluate why Georgia has its own Constitution even though the United States already has one.
What is Georgia needs its own Constitution to govern state issues such as education, counties, elections, and state laws?
Evaluate the long-term impact that shipbuilding in Savannah and Brunswick during World War II had on Georgia’s economy and workforce after the war.
What is the shipyards created over 15,000 jobs, increased state income, developed industrial skills, and helped move Georgia toward a stronger manufacturing economy after WWII?
Evaluate whether the Lend-Lease Act was a true form of neutrality.
What is no, because the U.S. was helping the Allies with supplies and support even before officially entering the war?
Evaluate how the leadership of Hartsfield and Allen helped transform Atlanta into a major southern city.
What is they promoted racial progress, economic growth, transportation, and national recognition?
How did the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education challenge the decision made in Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is Brown ruled that separate schools were unequal and unconstitutional, overturning the idea of “separate but equal”?