Name three contributions by Georgia's civilians during World War I.
Growing victory gardens, making soldier uniforms and blankets, transporting weapons and soldiers by railroad and ships
100
Why did the Agricultural Adjustment Act fail to benefit many African Americans in Georgia?
Subsidies were paid to landowners, not to tenant farmers
100
What Georgian is known as the father of the "two ocean navy"?
Carl Vinson
100
Who am I? President of Moorehouse College and Mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Benjamin Mays
100
The Sibley Commission was created in order to
study school integration in Georgia
200
What two events occured before the great Depression that caused Georgia's economy to crash?
drought and boll weavil
200
The Social Security Administration was created to
provide a system of retirement and unemployment insurance
200
Why did Franklin Roosevelt spend so much time in Georgia?
He used the mineral waters of Warm Springs to ease his pain from polio
200
Why did Georgia add the Confederate battle emblem to its state flag in 1956?
to protest Brown vs. Board of Education
200
Who were the first two students to integrate the University of Georgia in 1961?
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes
300
This event happened because of too much borrowing by consumers, stock market speculation, and overproduction by factories.
The Great Depression
300
Why did the U.S. start a lend-lease system for war equipment before it entered World War II?
Our allies ran out of money for purchasing needed war materials.
300
One of Georgia's most important agricultural products since World War II has been
poultry
300
Who became the new governor when Eugene Talmadge died in 1946?
three men claimed the office
300
Who was the first African American mayor of Atlanta?
Maynard Jackson
400
What Georgia governor served during the Great Depression and spent a great deal of his time speaking out against the New Deal, blacks, and urban areas?
Eugene Talmadge
400
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is remembered by what phrase?
"A day that will live in infamy"
400
What is William Hartsfield remembered for in Georgia?
aviation
400
What earlier U.S. Supreme Court decision was overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education?
Plessy vs. Fergusson
400
What event was the most important factor in Andrew Young's political career?
He was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives.
500
What New Deal program employed young, single, unemployed men to construct the Roosevelt State Park, the Tybee Island seawall, and Macon's airport?
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
500
What did Savannah and Brunswick manufacture in order to contribute to World War II?
Liberty Ships
500
Who was mayor of Atlanta responsible for bringing professional sports to the city?
Ivan Allen Jr.
500
What organization was formed two months after the sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC?
SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
500
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
It made segregation of all public facilities illegal