What events and technological advancements affected growth and westward expansion in Georgia during the 18th and 19th Centuries?
What major events led to the outbreak of the Civil War, and what was GA's role during the war?
What key political events affected the development of the state during the New South era?
SS8H4 Explain significant factors that affected westward
expansion in Georgia between 1789 and 1840.
a. Explain reasons for the establishment of the University of
Georgia, and for the westward movement of Georgia’s capitals.
b. Evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia;
include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo
Land Fraud.
c. Explain how technological developments, including the cotton
gin and railroads, had an impact on Georgia’s growth.
d. Describe the role of William McIntosh in the removal of the
Creek from Georgia.
e. Analyze how key people (John Ross, John Marshall, and
Andrew Jackson) and events
(Dahlonega Gold Rush and Worcester v. Georgia) led to the
removal of the Cherokees from Georgia known as the Trail of
Tears.
SS8H5 Analyze the impact of the Civil War on Georgia.
a. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the
Civil War; include slavery, states’ rights, nullification,
Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, the Dred Scott
case, Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, and the debate over
secession in Georgia.
b. Explain Georgia’s role in the Civil War; include the Union
blockade of Georgia’s coast, the
Emancipation Proclamation, Chickamauga, Sherman’s Atlanta
Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Andersonville.
SS8H6 Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia.
a. Explain the roles of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in
Reconstruction.
b. Explain the key features of the Lincoln, the Johnson, and the
Congressional Reconstruction plans.
c. Compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of the
Freedmen’s Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan.
d. Examine reasons for and effects of the removal of African
American or Black legislators from the Georgia General
Assembly during Reconstruction. e.
e. Give examples of goods and services produced during the
Reconstruction Era, including the use of sharecropping and
tenant farming.
SS8H7 Evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that
occurred in Georgia during the New South Era.
a. Identify the ways individuals, groups, and events attempted
to shape the New South; include the Bourbon Triumvirate,
Henry Grady, International Cotton Expositions, and Tom
Watson and the Populists.
b. Analyze how rights were denied to African Americans or
Blacks through Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson,
disenfranchisement, and racial violence, including the 1906
Atlanta Riot.
c. Explain the roles of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois,
and Alonzo Herndon in advancement of the rights of African
Americans or Blacks in the New South Era.
d. Examine anti-Semitism and the resistance to racial equality
exemplified in the Leo Frank case.