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Unpacking the StandardsGeorgia in a Divided
Nation

• 8th Grade Social Studies
• Mr. Short

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Lesson 1 Westward Expansion
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• History Standard SS8H5
• The student will explain significant factors that
  affected the development of Georgia as part of
  the growth of the United States between 1789 and
  1840.

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SS8H5 Elements
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• a. Explain the establishment of the University of
  Georgia, Louisville, and the spread of Baptist
  and Methodist churches.
• b. Evaluate the impact of land policies pursued
  by Georgia include the headright system, land
  lotteries, and the Yazoo land fraud.

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SS8H5 Elements
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• c. Explain how technological developments,
  including the cotton gin and railroads, had an
  impact on Georgias growth.

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Lesson 1 Westward Expansion
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Lesson 1 Westward Expansion
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Lesson 2 Indian Removal
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• History Standard SS8H5
• The student will explain significant factors that
  affected the development of Georgia as part of
  the growth of the United States between 1789 and
  1840.

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SS8H5 Elements
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• d. Analyze the events that led to the removal of
  Creeks and Cherokees include the roles of
  Alexander McGillivray, William McIntosh,
  Sequoyah, John Ross, Dahlonega Gold Rush,
  Worcester v. Georgia, Andrew Jackson, John
  Marshall, and the Trail of Tears.

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Lesson 2 Indian Removal
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Lesson 2 Indian Removal
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Lesson 3 Antebellum Georgia
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• History Standard SS8H6
• The student will analyze the impact of the Civil
  War and Reconstruction on Georgia.

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SS8H6 Elements
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• a. Explain the importance of key issues and
  events that led to the Civil War include
  slavery, states rights, nullification, Missouri
  Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia
  Platform, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case,
  election of 1860, the debate over secession in
  Georgia, and the role of Alexander Stephens.

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Lesson 3 Antebellum Georgia
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• Economics Standard SS8E1
• The student will give examples of the kinds of
  goods and services produced in Georgia in
  different historical periods.

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Lesson 3 Antebellum Georgia
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• Economics Standard SS8E2
• The student will explain the benefits of free
  trade.

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SS8E2 Elements
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• a. Describe how Georgians have engaged in trade
  in different historical time periods.

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Lesson 3 Antebellum Georgia
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Lesson 3 Antebellum Georgia
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Lesson 4 The Civil War
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• History Standard SS8H6
• The student will analyze the impact of the Civil
  War and Reconstruction on Georgia.

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SS8H6 Elements
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• b. State the importance of key events of the
  Civil War include Antietam, Emancipation
  Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union
  blockade of Georgias coast, Shermans Atlanta
  Campaign, Shermans March to the Sea, and
  Andersonville.

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Lesson 4 The Civil War
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Lesson 4 The Civil War
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Lesson 5 Reconstruction
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• History Standard SS8H6
• The student will analyze the impact of the Civil
  War and Reconstruction on Georgia.

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SS8H6 Elements
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• c. Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on
  Georgia and other southern states, emphasizing
  Freedmens Bureau sharecropping and tenant
  farming Reconstruction plans 13th, 14th, and
  15th amendments to the constitution Henry McNeal
  Turner and black legislators and the Ku Klux
  Klan.

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Lesson 5 Reconstruction
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Lesson 5 Reconstruction