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Social studies
Unit 8 vocab quiz
| Definition | Answer |
|---|---|
| A small grayish long shouted beetle that attacked the cotton plant. | Boll weevil |
| A lack of precipitation over a period of time that results in water shortages. | Drought. |
| A severe economic downturn that began with the stock market crash of 1929 and lasted until WWll. | Great Depression. |
| A set of programs and policies designed to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930's. | New Deal |
| One of the new deal programs that provided jobs for young, single men to build forest trails, roads, planting trees, and refreshing the land. | Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC) |
| One of the new deal programs that paid farmer to produce less cotton, corn, wheat, rice, and milk. | Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
| One of the new deal programs that provided funds to farmers' cooperatives to help them extend 6heir power lines. | Rural Electrification. |
| One of the New deal programs created to help retirement and unemployment insurance. | Social Security. |
| The system where equipment and services were provided for countries fighting Germany during WWll. | Lend-lease Act. |
| Naval base located in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan, leading to the U.S joining the war. | Pearl Harbor |
| Corporation that built B-29 bombers during world war 2 at its Marietta, GA plant | Bell Aircraft |
| Location where Georgians built "liberty ships" during World War 2. | Savannah and Brunswick |
| Served as Georgia state legislator and governor and a senator in the U.S senate. | Richard Russell. |
| Represented the U.S House of Representatives. | Carl Vinson |
| The killing of Jews and others Durbin World War 2, by Nazi Germany, led by dolt Hitler. | Holocaust |
| President who created the New Deal programs. | President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Location where FDR visited to help treat his polio. | Warm Springs, GA |