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In national-income accounting, a reduction of inventories counts as - Answers-Negative investment The total investment that occurs in the economy is called gross investment. When calculating GDP using the expenditure approach, the gross investment component (Ia) is equivalent to: - Answers-Net investment plus depreciation Consider Canada's nation

Agricultural Adjustment Administration - Answer-Restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative stability again. Herman Talmadge - Answer-GA governor; in reaction to Brown vs. BOE he de

Button Gwinnett (1735-1777) - Answer-one of three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence. He served in Georgia's colonial legislature, in the Second Continental Congress, and as president of Georgia's Revolutionary Council of Safety. Lachlan McIntosh (1727-1806) - Answer-a member of a prominent eighteenth-century Scottish Highland fami

Gold Rush - Answer-By late 1829 north Georgia, known at the time as the Cherokee Nation, was flooded by thousands of prospectors lusting for gold. The sudden influx of miners into the Cherokee Nation was known even at the time as the Great Intrusion Cotton - Answer-From the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, there was no more important single factor in Georgia's agricultural economy. Cash crop. William Harris Crawford - Answer-A two-time U.S. presidential nominee and the only G...

Flannery O'Connor - Answer-(March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964) was a American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, she wrote 16 novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. Her writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Atlanta - Answe...

Amos T. Akerman () - Answer-As attorney general he strenuously investigated and prosecuted Klan activities, and under his leadership the Klan was effectively ended. Rufus Bullock () - Answer-the first Republican to be elected to Georgia's highest political office, serving as governor from 1868 to 1871. Andersonville Prison - Answer-officially named Camp Sumter after the railroad station in neighboring Sumter County beside which the camp was located. established in Macon County, in southwe...

Abraham Baldwin - Answer-Founder of UGA, delegate to constitutional convention in 1787; served 5 consecutive terms in US HOR & 2 consecutive terms in US Senate Eli Whitney - Answer-Invented cotton gin in 1793 Yazoo Land Fraud - Answer-Assemblymen passed Yazoo Act to sell land to speculation companies; legislators who voted for bill received bribes; new assembly overturned act and took back land and voided Yazoo sales; land sold to US gov't, are now AL and Miss. Land Lottery System - An...

Jim Crow - Answer--De sure segregation -System of racial segregation in the south that was created in the late 19th century following the end of slavery. The laws written in 1880s and 1890s mandated public facility segregation. -Meant that blacks had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government. W. E. B. Du Bois - Answer--First black American to earn a doctorate from Harvard. Civil rights activist, wrote 'souls of black folk'; demanded full racial equality; co-founder...

Dred Scott - Answer-American slave who sued his master for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under the missouri Compromise Battle of Chickamauga - Answer-1863 Confederate army defeated the Union forces and forced the Union Army back into TN; Confederates did not follow up on Union retreat and they lost Chattanooga to the Union a short time later. States' Rights - Answer-the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. ...

Stamp Act - Answer-Passed by the British parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents Intolerable Acts - Answer-A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British Proclamation of 1763 - Answer-Reserved land for the Indians by established a boundary that forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains ...

1996 Olympic Games - Answers-Put georgia on a national stage, and made Atlanta a world known city. Which US Govenor was a strong advocate for having the Olympics in GA? - Answers-Zell Miller? Operation Desert Storm - Answers-international armed forces, including British and US troops, attacked Iraq in the Gulf War. It began on 16 January 1991 and lasted 100 days. Gulf War - Answers--1990 -Iraq's decision to invade Kuwait was condemned universally and led to the US and other countries ...

In what year was the 15th Amendment enacted? - Answers-1870 Poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements aimed at disenfranchising black voters - Answers-Voting Restrictions When did the civil war take place? - Answers- War between the North and South US to determine the survival of union or independence of confederacy. - Answers-Civil War This man was the father of the American revolution who inspired Rebels to declare independence from Britain and Wrote Comm...

King Phillip's War - Answers-Most Indians lost in New England King Philip's War was an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England versus the New England colonists and their Indian allies in 1675-78 Bacon's Rebellion - Answers--armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. - First rebellion in the colonies Whiskey Rebellion - Answers-In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's...

Battle of Kettle Creek - Answers-First colonial victory in Georgia on Feb. 14, 1779; important to Georgia because it increased morale and the militia was able to take horses and much needed weapons from the British Yazoo Land Fraud - Answers-This scandal that took place in Georgia in the early 1800's & resulted in Georgia losing much land in what is now Alabama and Mississippi - Also made the western border of Georgia the Chattahoochee River? James Vann - Answers-In 1800, while on an Ea...

Populism - Answers-Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892. "New South" Crusade - Answers-Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the industrialization of the state. Jim Crow - Answers-The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in ...

Dutch Colonization in the New World - Answers--first colonies functioned more as trading outposts than settlements -the Dutch commissioned an expedition by English explorer Henry Hudson to North America -Hudson failed in his search for a Northwest Passage, but his reports of abundant resources created interest among Dutch merchants -The Dutch West India Company was chartered to develop colonies in North America -the company tried to attract immigrants with land grants, and a diverse group of...

Jim Crow Law's - Answers-complex system that developed to insure white supremacy by white southerners after Reconstruction until 1965 which included mandating racial segregation in public facilities Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - Answers-Supreme Court ruling that "separate but equal" facilities for different races are not unconstitutional. This ruling opened the door to 75 years of state-sanctioned segregation in the south. Disenfranchisement - Answers-southern states sought ways to preven...

In general, productivity is a measure of A. potential output. B. the amount of output that the economy produces per unit of input. C. real GDP as a function of total employment. D. the economy's ability to increase real GDP per capita. E. the total amount of output that the economy is capable of producing. - Answers-B. the amount of output that the economy produces per unit of input. Inflation is the rate of change of average prices in the economy. In general, we can say that inflation ...

In our simple macro model with government, consider the equation YD = (0.75)Y. Which of the following statements about this equation is correct? A. Net tax revenue is equal to 25% of disposable income. B. If disposable income increases by $0.75, then national income increases by $1.00 and total tax revenue rises by $0.75. C. If national income increases by $1.00, then disposable income increases by $0.75 and net tax revenue increases by $0.25. D. Net tax revenue is equal to 75% of national...

In Shoetown, a rancher takes $80 worth of inputs and produces animal skins, which he sells to the tanner for $400. The tanner then sells leather to the shoemaker for $690, and the shoemaker then sells $1 200 worth of shoes. The value added from these transactions is A. $2,370. B. $2,100 C. $1,200. D. $770 E. $1120 - Answers-E. $1120 Suppose nominal national income in some country fell from $100 billion to $95 billion during the year. Over the same period, inflation was 5%. In this case, ...