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Former President of the United States. As a result of his time spent in rual Georgia, he witnessed first-hand the poverty that the state was suffering from in the Great Depression. He would create some New Deal programs based on his time in Georgia
Who is Franklin D. Rossevelt (FDR)
The New Deal program designed to build the capabilities to bring electricity to rural areas.
What is the Rural Electrification Act (REA)
These insects whose larvae feed on cotton crops; decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States
What is the boll weevil
The national highway system established by the federal government in 1950’s.
What is the Interstate Highway System
Atlanta’s longest serving mayor who was instrumental in bring aviation to the city and worked with civil rights leaders during the civil rights movement.
Who is William B. Hartsfield
New Deal program that provided retirement and unemployment insurance for American taxpayers.
What is the Social Security Act (SSA)
One of the worst droughts in Georgia’s history; led to a depression in the state that predated the Great Depression.
What is the Drought of 1924
An important mode of transportation used to ship a large amount of goods nationwide
What is the Railroads
The mayor of Atlanta who was instrumental in the development of the city, bringing major league sports teams to Atlanta, and a key figure in the civil rights movement.
Who is Ivan Allen
New Deal program that paid farmers a stipend not to grow crops in order to increase the price of agricultural products.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
A factor that led to the Great Depression; farmers continued to produce record numbers of crop yield though the demand for agricultural products was limited; this drove the cost of these products down.
What is Overproduction
The world’s busiest airport; located in Atlanta; named after Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson.
What is Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
Georgia Governor and U.S. Senator; son of Governor Eugene Talmadge.
Who is Herman Talmadge
New Deal program that hired unemployed young men to work on public works projects. New Deal - name given to a series of federal programs spearheaded by President Franklin Roosevelt in order to help the nation recover from the Great Depression.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
The name given to a period of time in the Midwest (1930 - 1936) characterized by drought, gigantic sand storms, and major agricultural damage.
What is the Dust Bowl.
Important water ways used for shipping cargo; Georgia’s two are located in Savannah and Brunswick.
What is Deep-Water Ports
The first person elected to the office of lieutenant governor of Georgia; served as the state's governor in 1947-1948. He is best remembered for his fight with Herman Talmadge over the governorship after the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in 1946.
Who is Melvin Thompson
The New Deal is a set of relief programs what helped the contry get out of what.
What is the Great Depression
AAA paid farmers to stop doing this, to help with overproduction.
What is stop farming
Each of the systems provides the opportunity to ship (blank) to other locations, while providing (blank) to thoes who need it.
What is goods and servces.