1. KUDos: Do: 1.29.17 Understand: Know: WW1 and Georgia 1st- 9 2nd- 1
SS8H8 Analyze Georgia’s participation in important events that occurred from World War I through the Great Depression. a. Describe Georgia’s contributions to World War I. b. Explain economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression. (e.g., boll weevil and drought). c. Describe Eugene Talmadge’s opposition to the New Deal Programs. d. Discuss President Roosevelt’s ties to Georgia, including his visits to Warm Springs and his impact on the state. e. Examine the effects of the New Deal in terms of the impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Rural Electrification Administration, and Social Security Administration.
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2. Standard SS8H8
SS8H8 Analyze Georgia’s participation in important events that occurred from World War I through the Great Depression.
a. Describe Georgia’s contributions to World War I.
b. Explain economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression. (e.g., boll weevil and drought).
c. Describe Eugene Talmadge’s opposition to the New Deal Programs.
d. Discuss President Roosevelt’s ties to Georgia, including his visits to Warm Springs and his impact on the state.
e. Examine the effects of the New Deal in terms of the impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Rural Electrification Administration, and Social Security Administration.

3. Overview of WW1 On a clean sheet of notebook paper… Name, Date, Period
You will answer the questions that pop up throughout the video, so pay attention
This will continue to stations and end with a final grade

4. GA and WW1 Stations There are two of the same station per table
You will only need the supplies at that table to complete the station
Station 2 & 3: go to my blog and find the page
Each station has it’s own questions that you will answer on your notebook paper where you have already answered the video questions
Be specific in your answer, I’m grading for accuracy
When the time goes off, switch to the next station.
Rotating clockwise through the stations

5. KUDos: 1.31.17 Do: Know: Understand: WW1 and Georgia Onesheet
SS8H8 Analyze Georgia’s participation in important events that occurred from World War I through the Great Depression. a. Describe Georgia’s contributions to World War I. b. Explain economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression. (e.g., boll weevil and drought). c. Describe Eugene Talmadge’s opposition to the New Deal Programs.
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Onesheet

6. Extra Credit Essay contest FOR MONEY!
If you complete the essay and enter the contest, I will replace your lowest grade with a 100!
Ask if you have questions
Only get a flyer if you are SERIOUSLY interested…I only have so many.

7. Why did America join anyway?
President Wilson worked to keep the US out of the war
1915: German submarine sank passenger ship Lusitania killing 128 Americans
1917: sub attacks resumed sinking American cargo ships
Zimmerman telegram: Germany tried to get Mexico to attack the US
Wilson finally joined the Allied powers

8. Georgia contributes to the Great War
How does Georgia make money?
After the Bourbon Triumvirate, did anything change?
List some ways Georgia can now help aid in the War.

9. Military Camps Georgia provided military training camps
Fort McPherson, Camp Gordon (largest), Camp Benning, and Camp Stewart
By the end of the war, GA had more military camps than any other state

10. Georgia Joins Georgia’s economy was hurting because of the war
Cotton, Timber, and Tobacco does not reach Europe
10,000 Georgians joined the war
3,000 come home dead

11. Helping from home
Georgians contributed manufactured goods and farm produce
Georgia built airplanes used in war
Air Force flight school built
2000 pilots trained for war in GA
Prisoner of War camp - 4,000 prisoners

12. Helping from home Factories started making uniforms, ammo, weapons
Farms grew more crops to assist the soldiers (like peaches)
People started buying War Bonds
Help to finance the war
Loan TO the gov’t

13. The War Ends
Armistice (surrender) signed by Germany on November, 11th, 1918
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month now serves to remember those lost with Veterans Day.

14. Let’s add this up… Total troops mobilized by all countries: 65,038,810
Total troops dead from all countries: 8,556,315
Total troops wounded from all countries: 21,219,452
Total missing or POWs: 7,750,945

15. Over 65 million people fought Over 20 million people were wounded
Let’s add this up…
Over 65 million people fought
Over 20 million people were wounded
million died on the battlefield
20 million died due to hunger & disease.

16. The Roaring 20s
1920 – 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote and more women began to enter the workforce.
Flappers: name given to women who took on the new fashion – known for short hair, make-up, dancing, drinking
Jazz (Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington) and Blues (Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith) became popular forms of music.
Walt Disney makes Mickey Mouse!
Rebecca Latimer Felton first woman in U.S. Senate

17. The Great Depression Economic factors: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
A sudden dramatic loss of value of shares of stock in corporations
Bank Failures
Everyone withdrew their money at one time
Reduction in Purchasing (buying)
Unemployment skyrockets because banks aren’t giving out credit
Overproduction of Agricultural Products
Cheap prices, farmers not making $

18. The Great Depression in Georgia
Boll weevil: insect which ate Georgia’s most important cash crop
1924: major drought (period with little or no rain) hit Georgia
Great Migration –
Millions of African-Americans moved to northern cities
Many sharecroppers and tenant farmers, both black and white, left the farms and moved to the cities

19. FD Roosevelt in Georgia? Why?
FDR visited Warm Springs, GA over 40 times.
“Little White House”
Exercised in the warm water pools to ease the effects of Polio
Roosevelt made several speeches and appearances
Do you think Georgians liked Roosevelt?
Why did they love him?

20. Roosevelt’s New Deal Only President elected 4 times.
Overwhelmingly supported by Georgians all 4 times.
New Deal
Set of relief programs set to help the country out of the Great Depression
They didn’t end the Great Depression
Helped many Georgians during these hard times.

21. Roosevelt’s New Deal Purpose:
Civilian Conservation Corps:
Purpose:
To hire unemployed young men to work on public service projects
Projects included erosion control, flood prevention, and public parks
men signed up, signed a 6 month contract, got room and board
got $30/month-had to send 25 home to family

23. Roosevelt’s New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps:
longest lasting New Deal program
9 months
78,000 Georgians employed
22 million trees planted
Built A.H. Stevens Park and Hard Labor Creek
Improved Chickamauga and Kennesaw Mountain Battlefields

24. Roosevelt’s New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act:
Paid farmers NOT to grow crops
This caused the price of cotton and tobacco to go up
Farmers made more money
Think about the time period….
Who would this hurt?
Sharecroppers and tenant farmers never saw any money
Gov’t told them to spread out the subsidy money, but could not enforce this.

25. Roosevelt’s New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act:
This ended the era of sharecropping and tenant farming
Where did all those African Americans and poor whites go?

26. Roosevelt’s New Deal Rural Electrification Administration:
Roosevelt got a large electricity bill on his “Little White House”
This sparked him to want to bring electricity to ALL parts of America
TONS of farmers would benefit
Reasonably priced, farmers started to buy appliances
These purchased stimulated the economy
Georgians benefitted!

27. Roosevelt’s New Deal Social Security Act:
Helps the elderly and those that can’t work
Benefits= over 65, disabled, those who have a beneficiary that’s died
One of the longest running programs
Most Georgians participate by either receiving funds or paying Social Security taxes

28. Eugene Talmadge Governor of Georgia Supported the farmer/working man
Opposed the New Deal Programs
Wanted less gov’t spending
Wanted less economic regulation
Gov’t would have too much power
Supported white supremacy
Did not like the programs that paid blacks and whites the same
"a combination of 'wet nursin,' frenzied finance and plain damn foolishness.”