Modern Georgia Vocabulary Review

A federal law passed in 1933, ruled unconstitutional, and then modified and passed again in 1938. It set quotas on farm produce in an attempt to keep farmers in business during the Great Depression.

• Civilian Conservation Corps:

• Lend-Lease Act:

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Rural Electrification Administration

A corporation that manufactured aircraft, including the B-29, and was active during World War II.

• Civilian Conservation Corps:

• Bell Aircraft

• Military bases

• Savannah and Brunswick shipyards:

A beetle that feeds on flowers and cotton buds. Not native to the United States, it proved disastrous to cotton producers in the American Southeast, including those in Georgia, during the Great Depression.

• Boll weevil

• Worm

• Butterfly

• Scorpion

A Great Depression-era work relief program that put young American men to work in rural areas

• Lend-Lease Act

• New Deal

• Civilian Conservation Corps:

• Rural Electrification Administration: A

A period of little or no rainfall

• flood

• tsunami

• drought

• blizzard

A sustained period of American economic decline. It lasted from 1929 until the mid-1940s

• New Deal

• World War I

• The Great Depression

• New South

In 1941 let the United States aid the Allies in World War II. It was

signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and it allowed the United States to provide aid to Great

Britain.

• New Deal

• Lend-Lease Act:

• Pearl Harbor

• Great Depression

Fort McPherson, Camp Gordon, Camp Benning, and Camp Stewart

• Shipyards

• Military Bases

• Ports

• Coastal Cities

A series of laws enacted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression, aimed at rebuilding the American economy

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Social Security Administration

• New Deal

• CCC

A naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, prompting the United States’ entry into World War I

• Pearl Harbor

• Savannah

• Brunswick

• Augusta