UNIT 2: GA's GROWTH AND GROWING PAINS in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Concept 5 Westward Expansion:

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.

Concept 6 Civil War:

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.

Concept 6 Reconstruction:

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.

Concept 7 New South:

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.