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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, ...