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Depression to Modern GA



  1. Who was a Georgia senator, governor, and the only person from Georgia to be president?

Jimmy Carter

  1. Who helped Linda Brown’s family sue to get her into an all-white school?

NAACP

  1. What mayor of Atlanta was called the “Father of Aviation” because he helped get the airport?

William Hartsfield

  1. In 1956, probably as a protest, the Georgia flag was changed to include the Confederate battle flag. What event may have caused this protest?

The Brown vs. Board of Education decision

  1. What event disrupted the 1996 Atlanta Olympics?

A bomb went off

  1. What does SNCC stand for?

Student Non-violent Coordinating Comm.

  1. What began Martin Luther King’s career as a civil rights leader?

Arrest of Rosa Parks

  1. The mayor of Atlanta who is credited with desegregating Atlanta and bringing in professional sports teams was who?

Ivan Allen Jr.

  1. What black minister and civil rights activist highlighted the differences between true democracy and the racist democracy of the US?

Benjamin Mays

  1. Which governor (and eventual US Senator) slowed desegregation?

Herman Talmadge

  1. Which governor worked to restore accreditation for Georgia colleges and ended the white primary?

Ellis Arnall

  1. What is the term for an extreme economic low?

Depression

  1. What was the main reason Franklin Roosevelt came to Georgia?

Warms Springs (polio); the Little White House

  1. What was October 29, 1929 called?

Black Tuesday

  1. Who became president in 1933 at the deepest part of the Depression?

FDR

  1. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v Board of Education (1954) struck down which practice that had been in place since Reconstruction?

Segregation (Separate but Equal)

  1. A series of programs (such as the CCC and the AAA) that Roosevelt started to the ease the pain of the Depression were called what?

The New Deal

  1. The Depression era program that paid young men to build trails and parks was called what?

CCC; Civilian Conservation Corps

  1. Thanks to President Roosevelt’s trips to Warm Springs, rural areas of Georgia became a national leader in what?

Electrification

  1. What was the term for Hitler’s program of arresting and killing Jews?

Holocaust

  1. The lend-lease act allowed what to happen?

US could support the war without sending troops, just supplies

  1. What was the name of the company in Marietta that built B-29 bombers for WWII?

Bell Aircraft

  1. Which Georgian was an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr.,

served as mayor of Atlanta, and was instrumental in

bringing the Olympics to Atlanta?



Maynard Jackson

  1. How did the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards help the war effort and help Georgia in WWII?

Supplied ships for the War and created jobs

  1. What were two causes of the Great Depression?

Stock market crash, too much credit

  1. Which congressman from Georgia helped improve the military preparedness by passing bills to improve the armed forces?

Carl Vinson

  1. Which statement best describes the importance of the

U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v.

Board of Education in 1954?

Desegregated the schools (integrated them)

28. How did the mechanization of farming further

contribute to the migration from rural areas?



They didn’t need as many people working on farms. People went to the city.

  1. What event caused the US to be pulled into WWII?

The Japanese bombing on Pearl Harbor

  1. The Georgia Commission that was created in 1960 to make the transition from segregation to integration easier was what?

The Sibley Commission

  1. In the Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were unconstitutional. This decision overturned what famous case?

Plessy v. Ferguson

  1. The cottage where Franklin Delano Roosevelt stayed when he was in Warm Springs, Ga, was called what?

The Little White House

  1. What did Franklin Roosevelt call December 7, 1941?

A day that will live in infamy

  1. What did FDR call his Depression era programs that aimed to restart the economy?

The New Deal

  1. Whose death after the 1946 governor’s race led to the “Three Governor’s Controversy”?

Eugene Talmadge

  1. Which New Deal act helped people who were retired, unemployed, or disabled?

Social Security

  1. During a depression, unemployment is ________ and people have very little _________to spend.

High, money

  1. Who served 3 terms as Georgia’s governor, but died before he could begin his 4th term?

Eugene Talmadge

  1. Who were the first two African American students to enroll in the University of Georgia?

Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

  1. What did the Albany Movement accomplish?

Desegregated the schools

  1. The 1964 law that banned segregation in public facilities and businesses associated with the government was what?

Civil Rights Act

  1. Who was the first black mayor of Atlanta? He expanded Hartsfield Airport.

Maynard Jackson

  1. What man became governor in 1967 as a segregationist but went on to appoint blacks to city jobs?

Lester Maddox

  1. The only Georgian to be elected president of the United States was who?

Jimmy Carter

  1. The Supreme Court ended the county unit system in 1962 when they ordered what?

Reapportionment

  1. What was the main reason that Franklin Roosevelt came to Georgia?

Warm Springs to soothe pains from polio

  1. Noticing that many rural Georgians did not have electricity led to FDR getting what act passed?

Rural Electrification Act

  1. Why were fewer farm workers needed after WWII?

Mechanization/ Better Farm Technology

  1. Which New Deal program still helps elderly people today?

Social Security

  1. Why did many rural Georgians not realize that the Great Depression was happening in the 1930s?

They were already poor-drought and boll weevil

  1. After WWII, what trend in Georgia’s economy contributed to the growth of Georgia?

People moving from farms to cities.

  1. How did the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) during the New Deal aid Georgia’s farmers?

Price supports on crops

  1. How did the federal New Deal programs of the 1930s have a lasting effect on the Georgia economy?

Gradual increase

  1. The Supreme Court ended the county unit system in 1962 and ordered reapportionment. Why?

Voting is distributed by population.


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