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8Th Grade Social Studies – Georgia Studies 8th Grade Social Studies – Georgia Studies During this time, we would like students to review over the material we have covered so far this year in Social Studies. This includes Georgia’s geography, our history units, as well as state & local government. Students should prioritize material they feel they need the most review on or did not score as highly on that particular unit assessment. Students should use the chapter quizzes to test their knowledge and review over the terms provided with each unit. Students can review using flash cards or creating matching for more in depth terms (i.e. Georgia’s Geographic Regions, Prehistoric Indian Groups, groups that settled in Georgia during the Colonial era, etc.). Students may also review using the Georgia Race Through Time, which reviews the material in a more game like format. In addition to the online textbook, information can also be found using the New Georgia Encyclopedia website. If you have any questions: Mr. Smith: [email protected] Mr. Pinckley: [email protected] Ms. Nick: [email protected] OR class edmodo - pxykwt GPB (Georgia Public Broadcasting) Online Textbook: https://www.gpb.org/education/georgia-studies/ digital-textbook GPB Georgia Race Through Time review game: https://www.gpb.org/education/georgia-race-through-time New Georgia Encyclopedia: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org Georgia Studies Playlist by GPB: https://www.youtube.com/playlist? list=PLMniSm5GhmXaVYMHwX1OYgc4QsXEW7XmI Georgia’s Geography & Prehistoric Eras (Units 1 & 2) • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapters 1, 2, & 4 to test your knowledge. • Terms: o Georgia’s Geographic Regions – Appalachian Plateau, Ridge & Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain. o Physical Features (practice locating on maps): Barrier Islands, Appalachian Mountains, Chattahoochee River, Savannah River, Fall Line, Okefenokee Swamp. o Prehistoric eras – Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian; chiefdom, horticulture • Videos: o https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMniSm5GhmXaHma9FA34h3TZ38-bEORnW (Physical Features Playlist) o https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMniSm5GhmXZuW84aegtnArZOVAFX1ZT7 (Regions of Georgia Playlist) Exploration & Colonization of Georgia – Unit 2 Chapter 5 – Unit 3 • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapters 5, 6, & 7 to test your knowledge. • European exploration and colonization of the New World by Spain & England including: o Hernando de Soto, Spanish missions, James Oglethorpe, Chief Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove, city of Savannah, Yamacraw Bluff, Yamacraw (Native American tribe), Trustee Colony, Royal Colony, W.R.I.S.T. Crops (Wine, Rice, Indigo, Silk & Tobacco), Charter of 1732, debtor, three reasons Georgia was founded as colony (defense, philanthropy, & economics), Settler groups – Jews, Salzburgers, Malcontents, & Highland Scots. Royal Governors – John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, & James Wright • Videos on Colonial era: https://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/collection/colonial-georgia Statehood (American Revolution) & Westward Expansion – Unit 4 • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapters 8, 9, & 10 • Terms: o Causes of the American Revolution: French & Indian War, Proclamation of 1763, & Stamp Act. Declaration of Independence & Georgia’s signers (Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, & George Walton) o Significant battles of the Revolution: Loyalists, patriots, Battle of Kettle Creek & Siege of Savannah o The United States is formed: Articles of Confederation & Constitution ! compare and contrast these two documents that created the government for the U.S. o Westward expansion by the United States: University of Georgia, why Georgia’s capital moved westward, headright system, Yazoo Land Fraud, land lottery system, cotton gin, railroad, Creek Indians, Treaty of Indian Springs & Second Treaty of Indian Springs, William McIntosh, Cherokee Indians, Worcester v. Georgia, John Ross, Andrew Jackson, John Marshall, Dahlonega Gold Rush, Trail of Tears. • American Revolution: o https://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/stories/savannah_under_attack • Westward Expansion Videos: https://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/collection/westward-expansion The Civil War (Causes, Conflict, & Reconstruction) • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14 • Terms: o Causes – slavery, states’ rights, nullification, Compromise of 1850, Georgia Platform, Dred Scott Decision, Election of 1860. o Significant Battles & People – Union, confederacy, Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, Union Blockade, Emancipation Proclamation, Battle of Chickamauga, General William Sherman, Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea, General Ulysses Grant, Andersonville POW (Prisoner of War) Camp. o Reconstruction – 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, presidential reconstruction, congressional reconstruction, Andrew Johnson, Freedmen’s Bureau, Ku Klux Klan, Expulsion of Black Legislators from Georgia’s General Assembly, sharecropping, tenant farming. • Videos: o https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GgW8Cy6UW_Y&list=PLMniSm5GhmXaT4BebzMdgoGiqpK8mmbph&index=4&t=0s (Prisoners of War during the Civil War) The New South • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapters 15 & 16 • Terms: o Bourbon Triumvirate (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, John B. Gordon), Henry Grady, Tom Watson, Populist Party, International Cotton Expositions (Expos), Atlanta Compromise Speech, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow Laws, “separate but equal,” Black Disenfranchisement, 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, Alonzo Herndon, Anti-Semitism, Leo Frank Case • Videos: o https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9ZcLRoEv3C8&list=PLMniSm5GhmXaT4BebzMdgoGiqpK8mmbph&index=41 (Atlanta Race Riot) Georgia in the 20th Century (World War I, the Great Depression, & World War II) – Unit 7 • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapters 17 & 18 • Terms: o World War I: Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, propaganda, Georgia’s contributions – military training camps o Great Depression/New Deal: boll weevil, drought, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Programs – Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Rural Electrification Administration, Social Security; opposition by Eugene Talmadge, the Little White House in Warm Springs. o World War II: Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor, Bell Bomber Plant, military camps, Liberty Ships, Savannah & Brunswick Shipyards, Richard B. Russell, Carl Vinson. Post World War II – Unit 8 • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapter 19 • Terms: o Diversification in Agriculture, population shift, Great Migration, William B. Hartsfield, Ivan Allen, Jr., end of the white primary, 1946 Governor Election/Three Governors Controversy (Eugene Talmadge, Herman Talmadge, Melvin Thompson, & Ellis Arnall), transportation systems – airport, highway system, deepwater ports, & railroads. The Civil Rights Movement – Unit 8 • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapter 20 • Terms: o Brown v. Board of Education, 1956 Georgia State Flag, Sibley Commission, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March on Washington, I Have a Dream Speech, John Lewis, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Albany Movement, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Lester Maddox. • Videos: o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woWoZSyO12c (Our Friend Martin movie) o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s (I Have a Dream speech) o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHNR5GRKCqg (Lester Maddox) o Civil Rights Movement: https://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/collection/civil-rights-movement Modern Georgia – Unit 8 • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapters 21 & 22 • Terms: o Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter, 1996 Olympics, tourism, film industry, transportation systems – airport, highway system, deepwater ports, & railroads. State & Local Government in Georgia - Units 9 & 10 " This unit will also have material from our next unit, feel free to begin looking into the criminal justice system & juvenile justice system! • Use Chapter Quizzes for Chapters 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, & 30 • Terms: o Checks & Balances, Separation of Powers, Georgia State Motto/Pledge of Allegiance, Georgia Constitution (preamble, articles, amendments, Bill of Rights), Georgia Voting Qualifications/ Requirements o Legislative Branch: General Assembly Qualifications, Senate, House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, committee system, legislative process (bill to law) steps. o Executive Branch: Governor/Lieutenant Governor qualifications, governor duties, lieutenant governor duties, executive agencies/departments o Judicial Branch: purpose of the Judicial Branch, trial courts – State, Juvenile, Probate, Superior, Magistrate, appellate courts – Court of Appeals & Georgia Supreme Court o Civil Law, Criminal law, pretrial process, trial process • Videos: o https://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/stories/georgia_and_the_united_states_constitution o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHEOz5SE3FI (Executive Branch) o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVLyCBivtA (Bill to Law) o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnHoRbJu34 (Judicial Branch).
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