Post WWII Georgia What do you think will change in Georgia immediately after the end of World War II? For each slide, take notes

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Post WWII GeorgiaWhat do you think will change
in Georgia immediately after the end of World War
II? For each slide, take notesuse key words
and phrasesno sentences
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3 categories of communities

• Urban (cities)
• Rural (country side areas)
• And a new phenomenon SUBURBS -- groups of
  communities that are socially and economically
  integrated (connected) with an adjacent (near-by)
  urbanized area (city) -- Think Gwinnett!
• The urbanized area is defined as the central
  city, while the surrounding areas are defined as
  the suburbs.

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Predict How and where do you think Georgians
migrated during the Post-World War II era.
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Migration patterns during the Post-World War II
era.

• Many poor rural residents (especially blacks)
  migrated to the Northern cities for better job
  opportunities (Great Migration)
• Many rural white residents, especially those with
  skills learned during the war, will move to
  southern cities for job opportunities

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Migration patterns during the Post-World War II
era.

• Eventually cities became more crowded, and
  urban-ites began to move outside of the city and
  created suburbs
• More revenue (tax dollars) becomes available in
  cities. WHY?

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• Where did Georgians live before WWII?

• Where did Georgians live after WWII?

Cities For the 1st time in its history Georgia
is a mostly industrialized state
Farmsis that urban or rural?
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How did farming change in Georgia after the war?

• 28,000 Georgians left agriculture and total
  number of farms decreased
• Improvements in farming technology seed
  hybridization, fertilizer, pesticides increased
  harvests
• Agricultural Extension Agents assisted farmers

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How did farming change in Georgia after the war?

• Soil conservation rotating crops, protecting
  topsoil, etc.
• Motorized tractors and harvesters replaced mule
  or horse-drawn harvesters
• THEREFOREfewer farms, but more productive. WHY?
  

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How did farming change in Georgia after the war?

• Georgian farmers became nationally known for
  their productsAgriculture is finally DIVERSIFIED
  with
• Peanuts, pecans
• Peaches
• Chickens (egg production) and broilers
• Hogs, beef cattle and dairy cows
• Onions, apples, soybeans, watermelons, wheat

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How did farming change in Georgia after the war?

• More and more farm products became available.
• What happens to the price when there is a surplus
  of something?

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• Where did most Georgians work before WWII?

• Where did most Georgians work after WWII?

Factories
Farms Still an important business, especially
in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain

• More Georgians worked in industries than farming
  for the first time in the states history

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Summarize with a partner How did agriculture
change after WWII?THENcompare your notes with
the next 3 slides
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Changes in Agriculture

• Before the War
• Lots of farms
• Most farming was done by manual labor
• Soil was exhausted

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Changes in Agriculture

• After the War
• Motorized equipment was available
• Farmers had more to buy tractors and motorized
  equipment for farming
• New farming methods
• Insecticide
• Chemical fertilizers
• Better plants (hybridization)

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Changes in Agriculture

• After the War
• Better Soil Conservation
• Maintained soil with added nutrients, mulch, etc,
  so soil was more productive.
• Crop rotation was used
• Grew new varieties of crops
• Fewer Farms were now able to produce more food
• Which physiographic regions of GA will be the
  most important to agriculture?

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Georgia continues its role as a TRANSPORTATION
center of the SE

• Atlanta grew rapidly as the transportation
  capital of Georgia and the SE part of the USA
• More RRs
• Interstate highway system brought 3 major
  interstates to Atlanta I-20, I-75, and
  I-85---So, more products moved in and out of
  Georgia

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Georgia continues its role as a TRANSPORTATION
CENTER of Georgia

• Aviation technology developed during WWII used to
  develop passenger planeslarge numbers of people
  are flying to their destinations for the first
  time in history
• More airlines flew in and out of AtlantaCandler
  Fields name changed to Hartsfield Airport.
• Delta Airlines establishes its HQ in Atlanta

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Georgia continues its role as a TRANSPORTATION
CENTER of Georgia

• Shipping technology advanced during WWII giving
  new opportunities to GAs ports of Brunswick and
  Savannah
• More and more goods are imported and exported
  through GA
• More and more cargo ships constructed at the
  shipbuilding facilities in those cities

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How did industry change in Georgia after the war?

• People wanted consumer goods that had been
  rationed during the War.
• Now, consumer products were available and
  rationing ended
• Factories that produced war materials began to
  produce tools, trucks clothing

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How did industry change in Georgia after the war?

• Georgia workers typically not unionized like in
  other states, so labor was cheapappealing to
  businesses looking to find a good location for a
  factory
• Low state and local taxes made Georgia a
  profitable place for businesses, so more
  industries moved to Georgia

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How did industry change in Georgia after the war?

• Large businesses included Coca-Cola, Eastern and
  Delta Airlines, General Motors, Ford, major
  railroads
• Many banking and service jobs came here to
  support the big businesses law, real estate,
  health, hotels, restaurants, etc.
• Service related jobs grew as industries and
  population grew
• Metro-Atlanta population more than doubled
  between 1940 - 1970

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Now, summarize how industry changed Georgia after
the war.
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• Where did Georgians receive education after WWII?

• Where did Georgians receive an education before
  WWII?

Fewer one-room school housesincreased
opportunities for educationmore schools
built Fewer children required to financially
support their families, so more children stayed
in schoolgraduation rates increased.
Many still did not graduate from high school, and
colleges were expensive and often unattainable
for sharecroppers and tenant farmers
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How else did education change in Georgia after
the war?

• Georgia Legislature required a 9-month school
  year
• (But, schools remained segregated)
• 3 state sales tax passed to support schools

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How else did education change in Georgia after
the war?

• Rural schools began to consolidate (small schools
  merged to create a larger schoolcounty-wide high
  schools began), so there were fewer but larger
  schools and more busses required for
  transportation
• GI Bill provided educational opportunities for
  veterans (soldiers who returned from military
  service), so many left the farms for industry

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Try and stump your neighbor. As questions about
how Georgians lived, worked, were educated, and
their migration patterns in the Post World War II
era. You may use your notes to create
questions, but not to answer?.