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Who was a Georgia senator, governor, and the only person from Georgia to be president?
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Jimmy Carter
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Who helped Linda Brown’s family sue to get her into an all-white school?
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NAACP
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What mayor of Atlanta was called the “Father of Aviation” because he helped get the airport?
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William Hartsfield
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In 1956, probably as a protest, the Georgia flag was changed to include the Confederate battle flag. What event may have caused this protest?
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Brown v Board of Ed
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What event disrupted the 1996 Atlanta Olympics?
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The bombing at Centennial Park
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What does SNCC stand for?
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Student Non-violent Coordinating Comm.
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What began Martin Luther King’s career as a civil rights leader?
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Rosa Park’s arrest
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The mayor of Atlanta who is credited with desegregating Atlanta and bringing in professional sports teams was who?
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Ivan Allen
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What black minister and civil rights activist highlighted the differences between true democracy and the racist democracy of the US?
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Benjamin Mays
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Which governor (and eventual US Senator) slowed desegregation?
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Herman Talmadge
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Which governor worked to restore accreditation for Georgia colleges and ended the white primary?
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Ellis Arnall
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What is the term for an extreme economic low?
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Depression
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What was the main reason Franklin Roosevelt came to Georgia?
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To soak in warm springs for polio pain
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What was October 29, 1929 called?
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Black Tuesday
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Who became president in 1933 at the deepest part of the Depression?
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FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v Board of Education (1954) struck down which practice that had been in place since Reconstruction?
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Separate but Equal
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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?
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The New Deal
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The Depression era program that paid young men to build trails and parks was called what?
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CCC The Civilian Conservation Corps
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Thanks to President Roosevelt’s trips to Warm Springs, rural areas of Georgia became a national leader in what?
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Electricity
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What was the term for Hitler’s program of arresting and killing Jews?
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Holocaust
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The lend-lease act allowed what to happen?
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The US supplied the Allies with weapons, etc. without them getting into the war
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What was the name of the company in Marietta that built B-29 bombers for WWII?
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Bell Aircraft
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Which Georgian was an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr.,
served as mayor of Atlanta, and was instrumental in
bringing the Olympics to Atlanta?
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Andrew Young
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How did the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards help the war effort and help Georgia in WWII?
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Built ships for the war, jobs for Georgians
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What were two causes of the Great Depression?
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Stock Market Crash, too much credit
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Which congressman from Georgia helped improve the military preparedness by passing bills to improve the armed forces?
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Carl Vinson
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What was the importance of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?
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Desegregated Schools
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28. How did the mechanization of farming further
contribute to the migration from rural areas?
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When the technology got better (tractors) people could move off the farms.
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What event caused the US to be pulled into WWII?
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor
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The Georgia Commission that was created in 1960 to make the transition from segregation to integration easier was what?
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Sibley Commission
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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?
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The cottage where Franklin Delano Roosevelt stayed when he was in Warm Springs, Ga, was called what?
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The Little White House
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What did Franklin Roosevelt call December 7, 1941?
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A day that will live in Infamy
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What did FDR call his Depression era programs that aimed to restart the economy?
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The New Deal
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Whose death after the 1946 governor’s race led to the “Three Governor’s Controversy”?
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Eugene Talmadge
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Which New Deal act helped people who were retired, unemployed, or disabled?
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Social Security
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During a depression, unemployment is ________ and people have very little _________to spend.
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High, money
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Who served 3 terms as Georgia’s governor, but died before he could begin his 4th term?
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Eugene Talmadge
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Who were the first two African American students to enroll in the University of Georgia?
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Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
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What did the Albany Movement accomplish?
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To desegregate the schools
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The 1964 law that banned segregation in public facilities and businesses associated with the government was what?
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The Civil Rights Act
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Who was the first black mayor of Atlanta? He expanded Hartsfield Airport.
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Maynard Jackson
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What man became governor in 1967 as a segregationist but went on to appoint blacks to city jobs?
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Lester Maddox
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The only Georgian to be elected president of the United States was who?
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Jimmy Carter
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The Supreme Court ended the county unit system in 1962 when they ordered what?
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Reapportionment
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What was the main reason that Franklin Roosevelt came to Georgia?
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To sit in the warm springs to help his pain from polio
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Noticing that many rural Georgians did not have electricity led to FDR getting what act passed?
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Rural Electrification Act
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Why were fewer farm workers needed after WWII?
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Advancements in Technology (tractors)
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Which New Deal program still helps elderly people today?
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Social Security
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Why did many rural Georgians not realize that the Great Depression was happening in the 1930s?
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They were already so poor-boll weevil and drought
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After WWII, what trend in Georgia’s economy contributed to the growth of Georgia?
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Better technology (tractors)
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How did the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) during the New Deal aid Georgia’s farmers?
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The gave price supports for crops.
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How did the federal New Deal programs of the 1930s have a lasting effect on the Georgia economy?
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Built new parks, roads, buildings, etc.
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The Supreme Court ended the county unit system in 1962 and ordered reapportionment. Why?
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Wanted “one person one vote”
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