New Deal
What two groups were effected most negatively by the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)?
Tenant Farmers and Sharecroppers
What airplane plant changed the city of Marietta to a major industrail city?
The Bell Bomber plant
What was the purpose of military camps on Georgia? Starts with a t_______________
Training
Who was the Navy advocate? CV
Carl Vinson
Who helped bring military bases to Georgia? RR
Richard Russell
The New Deal created: j __ __ __ ___.
jobs
Was passed because of the March on Washington?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Homegrown food plots?
Victory Gardens
Georgia's roll in WWII?
Military bases and training facilities
The father of the Navy?
Carl Vinson
What GA govenor did not want the New Deal?
Eugene Talmadge
Economic vulnerability for the elderly and disabled.
Social Security Act (SSA)
Aid to the allies without sending troops from the US.
Lead-Lease Act
What were ships called that were built in Savannah and Brunswick for WWII?
Liberty Ships
Economic effect of boll weevil?
Farm losses
Why did Eugene Talmadge oppose the New Deal programs?
Federal inference and his raciest views
Why did FDR visit Georgia?
Warm Springs therapy for polio.
This state was home to more training camps than any other state.
Georgia
The impact of WWII on Georgia's economy? Starts with a g
Growth
Post war impact on farmers?
Increased mechanized farming (machines) and decreased the need for farm workers.
To bring electricity to rural America
The Rural Electrification Act (REA)
High unemployment among young men and lack of forest conservation.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Why did the US enter WWII?
the Attack on Pearl Harbor
What caused the population shift from rural to urban areas in Georgia prior to WWII?
Boll weevil impact and loss of farms.
Isolation policy, stay out of war.
Neutrality Act