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ModernGA half
Half of the Modern GA Stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The two federal Supreme Court cases were in what time period? | 1960's |
| When was the CUS ruled to be unconstitutional? | April 1962 |
| When the CUS was abolished, what happened to the political power? | shifted from rural to urban areas |
| Why were the districts reapportioned after the CUS was abolished? | to five each citizens the right to vote (one person-one vote) |
| Before the CUS was abolished, what was the population rule? | GA asserted that every county had one legislative member |
| Before the CUS was abolished, what did it mean about population rule? | population didn't count |
| Who overcame the unlawful machinations of a political boss in a certain county? | Jimmy Carter |
| What county was it? | Quitman County |
| Why did he do that/ | to win election to the state senate from the Fourteenth District in 1962 |
| Carter devoted a time and attention to what? | educational affairs |
| How many terms did Carter have? | two senate terms |
| When was Carter elected governor? | 1970 |
| What did Carter reorganize? | the executive branch |
| How did Carter do that? | cut the number of agencies from 300 to 25 |
| What did he influence? | the state court system |
| Who did he appoint? | the first female state judge |
| What did he create? | Georgia Heritage Trust |
| What did the aforementioned program do? | protect natural and cultural resources |
| What did he work to equalize? | funding of Georgia Public schools |
| What other educational thing did he do? | expanded vocational and preschool programs |
| What was Carter the first of? | the first Georgian to become President |
| What is he internationally remembered for? | negotiations of peace between Israel and Egypt |
| What did Carter do after being president? | returned to Plains, GA |
| Carter worked with the CDC to defeat what? | disease |
| He worked with the United Nations for what? | ensure fair elections around the world |
| He worked with what program to build homes for poor Americans? | Habitat for Humanity |
| During what time did GA politics shift? | 1980's and 1990's |
| How did we favor political leaders? | statewide we elected Democrats, but nationally we favored Republicans |
| What did the aforementioned question led to? | more Republicans from GA in the US COngress |
| What was this system called? | two-party system |
| What major event happened in 1996 | GA hosted the Olympics in Atlanta |
| How many athletes participated? | over 10,000 |
| They represent how many countries? | 197 different countries |
| How many volunteers were there? | more than 90,000 |
| How many countries won at least one medal? | 79 |
| What other stes in GA were for the Olympics? | Athens, Conyers, Columbus, Jonesboro, Savannah |
| What world-class athletic facilities were made? | Olympic Stadium, Lake Lanier Rowing Center |
| What did the Olympics do for Atlanta? | brought international recognition to Atlanta, tremendous media coverage which led to increased tourism, international business expansion, job opportunities, millions of dollars into Georgia's economy |
| What ways did GA bring job opportunities | volunteer, educational, and training programs |
| What did people criticize Olympic planners for? | lack of infrastructure and street vendors |
| What was included in the lack of infrastructure? | roads, bridges, ports, other basic facilities |
| What was the economic benefit on GA from the Olympics? | $5.1 billion during 1991-1997 |
| What will the economic impact be a result of? | ACOG and spending by visitors to the region |
| By ____, ACOG's spending will have generated how much worth's economic activity? | 1997, 2.6 billion |
| Spending by out-of-state visitors will generate an additional how much? | $2.5 billion |
| Who benefited from the spending? | service industries |
| What do monetary costs mean? | it costs money |
| What are intangible costs? | cost that is not financial |
| From 2000-2005. GA's illegal immigrant population jumped to what? | 470,000 |
| How much percentage was that? | 114 |
| Who said that? | U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| What were sacrificed to malls and houses? | farmlands and forests |
| The effect of immigrants to the wages of natives depends on what? | how substitutable immigrants are for native workers |
| In professional ranks, what can an increase in immigrant share mean? | increase the wages of natives |
| In the manual labor market, an increase in the immigrant share means? | reduces wages for natives (but the effect is small) |
| When was Maynard Jackson mayor? | 1973-1981 and 1990-1994 |
| When was Andrew Young mayor? | 1981-1990 |
| List several things Maynard Jackson did | helped rebuild Hartsfield-Atlanta airport to modern standards, it was renamed in his honor; mayor when MARTA began, host for Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, term coincided with Atlanta child murders |
| List things Andrew Young did | in 1981 was elected mayor. signaled the institutionalism of the revolution in the black political power he had helped create in GA, AA mayor handed over the keys of a major city to another AA, second AA mayor, won reelection in 1985 |
| Add more things about Andrew Young (I couldn't fit it) | was defeated in 1990 primary bid to become Democratic candidate for governor of GA, aid to Dr. King, executive director of SCLC, first AA from GA to be elected to Congress since the 1860's |
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