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Unit 7 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Victory Gardens | Supported the American war effort by having citizens grow small family gardens to save vital food supplies for shipping to soldiers overseas. |
| War bonds | Citizens purchased these in times of war to help provide the government with money for military operations |
| Overproduction | Making more of a product than can be sold; causes the price of the product to decrease |
| drought | A long period of little rainfall; causes farmers to grow less crops and make less money |
| boll weevil | A destructive insect that laid its eggs in cotton plants; caused Georgia's cotton crop to drop and farmers to lose money |
| Great Depression | An event caused by overproduction of agricultural products, failure of banks, and an unstable economy |
| Eugene Talmadge | Governor of georgia who opposed the agricultural adjustment act, franklin d. roosevelt , and the new deal |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the united states who created the new deal and visited warm springs, Georgia many times because the warm waters helped relieve the effects of his polio |
| New Deal | Programs and projects developed by franklin d. Roosevelt to help the economy and provide citizens with jobs and electricity |
| Rural Electrification Act (REA) | Provided electricity to homes outside of populated cities; developed because of franklin d. Roosevelt’s visits to warm springs, Georgia. |
| Civil Conservation Corps | A public work relief program that was created by the new dea and designed to provide unemployed men with jobs during the great depression. |
| Social Security Administration (SSA) | A public work relief program that was created by the new deal and designed to provide unemployed men with jobs during the great depression. |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) | A program of the new deal that created insurance for the elderly, unemployed, and disabled people through contributions by employees and employers. |