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| Question | Answer |
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| 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 | Definition citizens purchased these in times of war to help provide the government with money for military operations. |
| Overproduction | Definition making more of a product than can be sold; causes the price of the product to decrease. |
| drought | Definition a long period of time of little rainfall; causes farmers to grow less crops and make less money. |
| boll weevil | Definition a destructive insect that laid its eggs in cotton plants; caused Georgia's cotton crop to drop and farmers to lose money. |
| Great Depression | Definition an event caused by overproduction of ag products, failure of banks, and an unstable economy. |
| Eugene Talmadge | Definition governor of Georgia who opposed the AG Adjustmentment act, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the new deal. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Definition president of the USA who created the New Deal and visited Warm Springs, Georgia many times because the warm waters helped relieve the effects of his polio; also known as FDR. |
| New Deal | Definition programs and projects developed by FDR to help the economy provide citizens with jobs and electricity |
| Rural Electrification Act (REA) | Definition provided electricity to homes outside of populated cities; developed because of franklin D Roosevelt’s visits to warm springs |
| Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) | Definition a public work relief program that was created by the new deal and design |
| Social Security Administration (SSA) | The Social Security Administration (SSA) is a U.S. federal agency that manages Social Security numbers, administers retirement, disability, survivor, and family benefits, runs the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, and enrolls people in Medicare, |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) | The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a New Deal law from 1933 designed to boost farm prices during the Great Depression by reducing surpluses, paying farmers subsidies to cut production (like plowing under crops or slaughtering livestock), funded by |