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unit 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Boll Weevil | originally came from Mexico in the 1920s:destroyed the cotton,the primary source of income for many Georgia farmers;it feeds on the growing white,fluffy cotton,making it useless;the boll weevil caused a drop in cotton prices and farmers lost money |
| Drought | very little or no rain;effected Georgia farmers;ruinedthe crops but also slowed down the destruction caused by the boll weevil;when the farms failed the BANKS that had loaned the farmers money lost their money also these events caused a deep DEPRESSION in |
| Black Tuesday | October 29,1929;the stock market crashed |
| President Herbert Hoover | policies are blamed for the Great Depression |
| Laissez-faire policies of the U.S. government | the government did not do anything to help solve the country's economic problems |
| Georgians did not feel the impact of the stock market crash | because the state was already in a depression |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | in 1924 he began visiting Warm Springs as treatment for his polio;elected president in 1932;he promised"A New deal for the American people";his Warm Springs home was called the "Little White House";he led the country through recovery from the depression;h |
| New Deal | bring about economic recovery;relieved suffering of the unemployed;reform defects in the economy;improve society and lifestyles for americans |
| (CCC)CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS | A NEW DEAL program that provided jobs for young single men working with forests,controlling flooding,and building parks;helped with projects in Geoergia such as ROOSEVELT STATE PARK IN PINE MOUNTAIN ,Tybee |
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