1. 16th Agenda: -Tech. Developments
Warm Up
Answer the TWO questions in a complete sentence on your WARM UP SHEET.
What were the similarities and differences between the headright system and the land lottery?
What was the Yazoo Land fraud and how did it change Georgia’s boundaries?
Agenda: -Tech. Developments
-AC: (1 and 6)Novel Check Wed.

2. Technology
Does it help or hurt?

3. Intended Consequences Unintended Consequence
Consider the Following Text Messaging: fast and efficient method of communication at your finger tips.
Intended Consequences
Unintended Consequence
Eliminates long phone conversations
Allows you to message quickly and instantly
Loss of human interaction
Contributes to the inability to spell and communicate effectively (SMH, LOL, BTW, BRB)
1,000s of vehicular deaths yearly.

4. Economic Growth In Georgia

5. Cotton Gin Description Invented by Eli Whitney
Cotton was previously deseeded by hand at the rate of about ONE pound per day

6. How it worked…
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7. Intended Consequences Unintended Consequences
Cotton Gin
Intended Consequences
Unintended Consequences
To make producing cotton more profit
Clean cotton faster
Was able to remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton each day
Led to Westward Expansion
The south grew a majority of the world’s cotton by the end of the 19th century
Negatives:
The south became dependent on one crop
Increased slavery

8. Railroads Intended to be pulled by horse or steam engine
1832 Georgia’s first railroad was chartered,and was ranked in the top ten for railroad track mileage.
Developed partially from the concept of the steamboat.
Video

9. Railroads Unintentional Easier Transportation Way to transport cotton
Solved issues of difficult travel on rough roads
Took business from freight traffic along rivers
The development of cities not along rivers
Atlanta was first major American city not to be built on a navigable river

10. Mechanical Reaper Invented by Cyrus McCormick
Wooden paddles fasten to the harness of a horse. As the horse was guided through the fields, the paddles turned and cut grain.
Grain was previously cut by hand with a scythe
Video

11. Mechanical Reaper Unintentional
Allowed farmers to cut six times the amount of grain
Became an international sensation
Impacted the Civil War by releasing 5 men for service per reaper.
Lead to increased competition and more development of agricultural machinery.