The Great Depression
What major event triggered the Great Depression?
The stock market crash of 1929.
The person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so is called an
entrepreneur
1.1st African American major of a major southern city (Atlanta)
2. provided more contract work to black owned businesses; recruited more black police officers
3. Expanded Hartfield airport
4. Worked to bring the Olympics to Atlanta
Who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case
Thurgood Marshall
After Sherman took over Atlanta his second war strategy was ready to be put into play. What is the name of William T Shermans second war strategy?
March to the Sea
What was a tiny insect that laid eggs in the cotton plants and the larvae destroyed the plants by eating all the cotton?
Boll Weevil
This classic Atlanta-based company donated land to the city of Atlanta for the construction of the Georgia Aquarium.
Coca-Cola Company
State senator, governor, and the only person from Georgia to serve as President of the United States
As president, held Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel; signed SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) with the Soviet Union
He improved education, justice and mental health systems, appointed women and minorities to government positions
Jimmy Carter
Leader of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, leader of the Selma March, current U.S. Representative from Georgia
John Lewis
It was the most notorious prison of war camp during the civil war.
Andersonville Prison
How did Georgia contribute to WWI?
Victory gardens, Training supplies, Military bases.
"The World of Coca-Cola" is located on a twenty-acre site in Atlanta. The twenty-acre site is known as...
Pemberton Place.
Leader in the African-American community
Author and civil rights activists who supported the Atlanta Compromise which said African Americans should accommodate whites in return for basic educational and economic opportunities
Headed the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Which movement lasted from the fall of 1961 to the Summer of 1962 and whose goal was to end all types of segregation in Albany, GA?
Albany Movement
What is one of the parts of the Compromise of 1850?
Fugitive Slave Act
This group was the one that the federal government paid farmers NOT to grow cotton or tobacco. Which done more harm then good to the sharecroppers and tenant farmers as farmers kept the surplus.
AAA
(Agricultural Adjustment Act)
It played a major role in the establishment of Atlanta as an international transportation center. Which Georgia-based corporation is being described?
Delta Airlines
Best known for his continual promotion of the "New South"
Managing editor of the Atlanta Journal
Promoted industrialization of the South, diversifying agriculture and lobbed northerners
Henry Grady
A group of college students who held sit-ins at segregated restaurants along with promoted voter registration"
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
General Winfield Scott was the mastermind behind the strategy, often called the ________ due to its intention of “squeezing” the CSA to death.
Anaconda Plan
What had a devastating impact on the remaining cotton plants and seeds AFTER the invading of the Boll Weevil? It was caused by no rain for long periods of time.
Drought
The amount of money an entrepreneur or business earns after paying their expenses?
profit
President during the Civil War
Wanted to preserve the Union
Brought about the Emancipation of slaves
Abraham Lincoln
Which court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?
Brown v. Board of Education
Who was the Union commander that wreaked havoc throughout the streets of Atlanta and other parts of Georgia
William T Sherman