Vocab Terms
Transportation and Innovation
Jimmy Carter
Entrepreneurs
1996 Olympic Games and Economics
100
This is known as the amount of money you bring home from a job (like a salary) or that you earn from selling goods or property that you own.
What is income?
100
This is one of the oldest forms of transportation and trade in Georgia. These are still used to transport large quantities of goods nationwide.
What are railroads?
100
In 1962 Jimmy Carter was elected as state _________.
What is senator?
100
All entrepreneurs risk going ___________ when they open a new business. It will wither fail or succeed.
What is bankrupted?
100
In 1996, Atlanta was asked to hold this major athletic event.
What are the 1996 Olympic Games?
200
When you purchase a good or service, you are doing this...
What is spending?
200
This airport is one of the largest on most successful airports. It was name after two famous mayors of Georgia, one being Maynard Jackson.
What is Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! In 1970 Jimmy Carter was elected governor. While he was governor he was known for improving education, justice, and mental health systems, and for _________________ the state government.
What is reorganizing?
200
This company has been sold many times, but is currently in the possession of Robert W. Woodruff. This company is the largest company of non-alcoholic beverages and started with an entrepreneur.
What is Coca-Cola?
200
The Olympic Games in Georgia allowed the state to grow economically. It also created tax revenue and it created these, which are good for unemployed American citizens or immigrants.
What are jobs?
300
This is when you use money, so you can gain more in the future by loaning it to businesses. In return you get a share of the companies profits.
What is investing?
300
Many states benefited from this, which was first mentioned in 1930. It played a part in another economic growth for the states, including Georgia. The plan was not put into effect until Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. This added a lot of jobs for the construction of the new way of transportation and for the buildings that grew massively as this invention progressed.
What is Interstate Highway System.
300
In 1976 Carter was elected president. During his presidency, he organized theses Peace Accords and the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT II). In 1980, he lost to Ronald Reagan.
What is the Camp David Peace Accords?
300
This is the largest passenger airline founded in Macon, Georgia in 1924 by B.R. Coad and C.E. Woolman.
What is Delta Airlines?
300
Having such a large event in Georgia made Georgia well known, which brought ____________.
What is tourist?
400
When you set aside part of your income for something that you really want or need, you are doing this.
What is saving?
400
This form of transportation is used to transport large goods such as cars from other countries. We import Jaguar, Volvo, etc. and we export company's products such as General Motors.
What are Deep Water Ports?
400
In 1980, former president Carter founded the __________ __________ which monitored elections, resolved conflicts, and treated worldwide diseases.
What is the Carter Center?
400
This company is the largest in the paper, tissue, and construction-based chemicals industry. It first got started in 1927 and was owned by Owen R. Cheatham.
What is Georgia Pacific?
400
The games were going smoothly until a ________ went off and killed two spectators.
What is bomb?
500
This is an amount of money loaned to a person. It must be paid back and sometimes with additional interest.
What is credit?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! Who am I? I encouraged the construction of the Interstate Highway System and was President of the United States.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
Many people would consider Jimmy Carter as this, after his presidency. You get this title when you care about and help other people.
What is a humanitarian?
500
This company is the largest home appliance store in the nation. It was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank.
What is Home Depot?
500
FINAL JEOPARDY!!!!! The reviews about the 1996 Olympics were _______. Some people thought that the Olympics could now be considered dangerous, and other saw that it really helped Atlanta and Georgia economically and socially.
What is mixed?
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