Chapter 8

Question 1

Program to develop MSs industrial base to match its agricultural base

Answer 1

BAWI

Question 2

Spending money to build factories highways and buildings

Answer 2

Capital investment

Question 3

A continued downturn in economic activity

Answer 3

Depression

Question 4

A building made of compressed wood fibers

Answer 4

Fiberboard

Question 5

Schools that offer the first two years of college work

Answer 5

Junior college

Question 6

Movement from one state to settle in another

Answer 6

Migration

Question 7

Illegally distilled liquor

Answer 7

Moonshine

Question 8

A series of laws designed to bring the country out of the depression

Answer 8

New deal

Question 9

A period when the making and selling of alcoholic beverages was illegal

Answer 9

Prohibition

Question 10

The sticky substance from pine trees

Answer 10

Resin

Question 11

What was the name of the militant black newspaper that encourage the migration by describing Chicago as the promised land

Answer 11

Chicago defender

Question 12

After World War II Mississippi had begun to change in many ways what was the only thing people appear to be unwilling to change

Answer 12

Segregation

Question 13

What year did the great depression begin

Answer 13

1929

Question 14

The Mississippi River flood of 1927 covered how many square miles

Answer 14

27,000

Question 15

How many Mississippian served in the Armed Forces during World War II

Answer 15

Over 250,000

Question 16

What year did Mississippi have the worst flood in history

Answer 16

1927

Question 17

In 1923 when Henry Whitfield was elected governor of Mississippi his election Marked the 1st time … were allowed to vote on the 19th amendment

Answer 17

women

Question 18

What was the document that Governor Bilbo used to try to consolidate the Mississippi universities

Answer 18

The Wisconsin report

Question 19

… Was the first Mississippian who was the key figure in FDR’s Works progress administration

Answer 19

Ellen S Woodward

Question 20

Which of the following is a series of laws designed to bring the country out of the great depression

Answer 20

New deal

Question 21

List the four major problems faced by Mississippians in the period between World War I and World War II

Answer 21

. The great flood of 1927
.Great depression
. Internal political fighting
. Migration of blacks

Question 22

List three of the new deal programs that operates in Mississippi during the great depression

Answer 22

Public Works administration, civilian conservation Corps, agricultural adjustment administration