Georgia Studies - Mrs. Martinez
Unit 3: "A Nation Divided"
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.
The students had the opportunity to use their ELA Step Up To Writing Methods to take notes about the causes of the Civil War. Each class had their own notes and decided what was going to be the most important information to keep in the "elaboration" section, highlighted in red.
Unit 3 DBQ
SS8H5 Analyze the impact of the Civil War on 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.
Students work in stations to discover some of the roles that Georgia had in the Civil War and some of the areas that were the most important in the state. Below you will find the notes for this section. Please go to Google Classroom for your class for any work in this section.
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. Give examples of goods and services produced during the Reconstruction Era, including the use of sharecropping and tenant farming.
Students worked in stations to learn about the era after the Civil War which is called the the Reconstruction. They were able to put together a timeline of the events of the Reconstruction. Students also learned about the Reconstruction Amendments that were made in order to help the rights of the newly freed slaves during this time. Please go to Google Classroom for any work from this section.
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.
d. Examine antisemitism and the resistance to racial equality exemplified in the Leo Frank case.
Students worked on the notes as a whole group and then accomplished three tasks throughout the week to learn more about the next period in Georgia history which is affectionately called the "New South" Period. The students start to see the racial tensions start to rise and the development of the Freedmen's Bureau and the KKK. This section is jam-packed with people that the students are going to need to know. So, they have to start making distinctions now.
SS8H7 Evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia during the New South Era.
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.
On week 22 of school, the students are going to start learning about the ins and out of race relations in the South and some of the major African American players in the first round of fights for Civil Rights in the early 1900s along with a lot of the helpers along the way. They will work with the teacher one day in order to gain some testing strategies when it comes to the GMAS this May. They will then test their knowledge by completing a race of a match game of people and events during the New South.