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World War 1 through the

STANDARDS:SS8H8 Analyze Georgia’s participation in important events that occurred from World War I through the Great Depression. a. Describe Georgia’s contributions to World War I. b. Explain economic factors that resulted in the Great

Depression. (e.g., boll weevil and drought). c. Describe Eugene Talmadge’s opposition to the New Deal

Programs. d. Discuss President Roosevelt’s ties to Georgia, including his

visits to Warm Springs and his impact on the state. e. Examine the effects of the New Deal in terms of the

impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Rural Electrification Administration, and Social Security Administration.

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TEACHER INFO: Key Terms Anticipation Guide

• Print off the Key Terms anticipation guide for each student.

• BEFORE the lesson, the students will write down everything that they know or think they know about the key term in the left column.

• AFTER the lesson, the students will write down everything that they learned about the key term in the right column.

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Complete this colum

n BEFORE

we begin the lesson. List, draw

, or explain w

hat you know or

think you know about the key

terms.

Eugene Talmadge

New

Deal

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great Depression

Boll W

eevil & Drought

World W

ar I &

Georgia

Key TermsCom

plete this column A

FTER

w

e complete the lesson. List,

draw, or explain w

hat you have learned about the key term

s. Include inform

ation about how

the term im

pacted Georgia.

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Complete this colum

n BEFORE

we begin the lesson. List, draw

, or explain w

hat you know or

think you know about the key

terms.

Eugene Talmadge

New

Deal

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great Depression

Boll W

eevil & Drought

World W

ar I &

Georgia

Key Terms

Charismatic/controversial politician

and governor who strongly opposed

New

Deal programs, fought for rural

Georgians but did not support equal

rights for African A

mericans

Series of programs created by

FDR to help US recover from

G

reat Depression (CCC, SSA,

REA, A

AA

, etc.)

Elected president in 1932,

introduced national plan (New

Deal) to help pull US out of Depression

Began w

ith stock market

crash in 1929, longest period

of unemploym

ent & low

economic activity in m

odern tim

es

Destructive insect from M

exico that w

iped out cotton throughout G

A & the South;

was follow

ed by 3 years of severe drought, causing m

any G

A farm

ers to abandon farms

When the US engaged in W

WI

in Europe, GA

made m

any contributions: 1

00,0

00 soldiers,

5 military facilities, cotton,

textiles mills, food production

Complete this colum

n AFT

ER

we com

plete the lesson. List, draw

, or explain what you have

learned about the key terms.

Include inform

ation about how

the term im

pacted Georgia.

TEACHER INFO: CLOZE Notes• The next pages are handouts for the

students to use for note-taking during the presentation. (Print front to back to save paper and ink.)

• Check the answers as a class after the presentation.

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GEOR

GIA

’S CONTRIB

UTION

S TO WW

IM

ilitary•

Georgia contributed to W

orld War I

in many w

ays, including food production, ____________________________, and m

ilitary involvement.

•N

early ____________________________ in the arm

ed forces.•

____________________________ of G

eorgia’s soldiers lost their lives during the w

ar.•

Georgia had _

___________________________ than any other state.

•G

eorgia was hom

e to ____________________________ at the start of the

war, and added m

ore by they time it w

as over. •

The facilities were Fort M

cPherson, Fort G

ordon, ____________________________, Cam

p Wheeler, and Cam

p Hancock.•

The camps w

ere used to either train troops, ____________________________,

or house prisoners of war.

Cotton•

During World W

ar I, the increased _

___________________________ brought

prosperity to Georgia’s farm

ers.•

The value of Georgia’s _

___________________________ betw

een 190

0 and

191

6—m

aking farmers m

ore prosperous than they had been in over 60 years.

•G

eorgia’s cotton was used to m

ake ____________________________ in the

state’s textile mills.

Textiles•

Georgia’s textile m

ills manufactured fabric that w

as used to make clothing,

blankets, and ____________________________.

•Throughout the w

ar, fabric was in _

___________________________ , so m

ore textiles m

ills were built throughout G

eorgia.

Agriculture

•There w

as an increased demand for food production during the w

ar as soldiers overseas _

___________________________.

•G

eorgia’s cotton farmers began to _

___________________________ of fruit

and vegetables.•

Food products like peaches and sweet potatoes w

ere canned in newly built

____________________________ across the state.

•M

eat was also processed in G

eorgia’s ____________________________ before

being sent overseas.

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Cloze Notes One

Rationing•

During the war, m

uch of the consumer _

___________________________ to only

what w

as necessary for survival. •

The government put _

___________________________ on everything from

sugar, coffee, m

eat, butter, shoes, to gasoline.•

Many people started their ow

n ____________________________ in order to have

fresh fruit and vegetables to eat at home, w

hile saving canned foods to ship to soldiers overseas.

ECONOM

IC FACTOR

S LEADI

NG

TO THE G

REAT DEP

RESSION

After

theW

ar•

After W

WI, m

any people enjoyed ____________________________.

•____________________________ left m

any Am

ericans wealthy.

•Unfortunately, farm

ers, like the ____________________________, still faced m

any challenges.

Diversify•

In addition to calling for m

ore industry in Georgia, agriculture experts and N

ew South

businessmen urged farm

ers to ____________________________.

•G

eorgia’s farmers _

___________________________ and refused to take the advice.

•They kept grow

ing cotton (and only cotton) because it was the

____________________________.

Boll W

eevil•

A tiny, destructive insect know

n as a boll weevil m

ade its way

____________________________ and reached G

eorgia’s farms in 1

915.

•The boll w

eevil was devastating to the South because it laid its eggs in cotton plants

and the larvae ____________________________.

Destruction•

By the 1920

s, many G

eorgia farmers had _

___________________________, m

oney, and their land due to the insects’ destruction.

•The total cotton crop dropped from

1.75 m

illion bales a year to ____________________________.

•G

eorgia’s cotton farmers w

ere devasted, cotton was

____________________________ , and the destruction of the cotton crop forced

farmers to finally diversify.

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Drought•

A _

___________________________ soon follow

ed the boll weevil catastrophe from

1924

to 1927.

•W

ithout ____________________________, farm

ers could not grow as m

uch as they norm

ally did.•

With the dam

age caused by the boll weevil and the droughts, G

eorgia began to ____________________________ long before the rest of the United States.

Changes•

Both the boll w

eevil and the drought had a severe impact on G

eorgia’s agriculture and ____________________________ in the state.

•Cotton no longer becam

e Georgia’s prim

ary agricultural product, and farmers produced

other goods including ____________________________.

•A

lso, ____________________________

soon became one of G

eorgia’s most vital

crops.•

The drought and boll weevil forced m

any of Georgia’s farm

ers to ____________________________.

•B

etween 1

920 and 1

925, so many farm

ers fell into debt that Georgia lost

____________________________.

•Aw

ful agricultural conditions caused more and m

ore people to migrate to G

eorgia’s cities or to the N

orth to ____________________________.

Consumerism

•W

hile farmers suffered, the m

ajority of the rest of the nation enjoyed ____________________________.

•People’s spending habits changed as they focused _

___________________________

things rather than on saving.•

____________________________ also becam

e more com

mon, w

hich allowed people

to buy things right away rather than having to save to afford them

.

Overproduction•

Meanw

hile, industries and businesses were _

___________________________ could

buy.•

Farmers w

ere also producing more than _

___________________________.

•W

ith WW

I over, prices for _

___________________________, m

aking it hard for farm

ers to earn a profit.•

Many farm

ers had to ____________________________ to buy new

equipment and

grow m

ore crops.

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Cloze Notes Three

Stocks•

More and m

ore people began ____________________________.

•W

hen people buy stock, they ____________________________ in com

panies that they believe w

ill make m

oney.•

When the com

panies do well, the stockholders

____________________________.

•During the 1

920s, people often paid for part of a stock and then

____________________________

from banks to buy the rest.

•In the 1

920s, m

illions of Am

ericans bought ____________________________.

•That m

eant they ____________________________ of shares in com

panies w

ould go up.•

This sent the price of stocks up more than they

____________________________.

Black Tuesday

•W

hen stocks began to drop to their true worth,

____________________________ and sold their stocks for m

uch cheaper prices.

•This caused the stock _

___________________________, and on October 29

th, 1929, the stock m

arket crashed.•

This is known as “_

___________________________” and m

arked the beginning of the G

reat Depression.

Crash•

The depression that followed the stock m

arket crash ____________________________.

•People w

ho were rich one day w

ere ____________________________.

•M

any banks went out of business, _

___________________________, and

thousands of people lost their life savings and their homes.

Banks

•During the early 1

900s, there w

as____________________________ protecting

bank deposits. •

After the stock m

arket crashed, people rushed to banks to ____________________________.

•The banks quickly _

___________________________, w

hich caused many people

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Depression•

The Great Depression w

as the ____________________________ and low

economic

activity in modern tim

es.•

It began in 1929 and lasted _

___________________________.

•A

griculture income dropped 50

%, 25%

of Am

ericans were unem

ployed, and poverty and _

___________________________.

Georgia

•The Depression _

___________________________ especially hard.

•Cotton dropped to 5 cents per pound and w

ithin a year, many farm

ers lost their land and m

oved to ____________________________.

•B

etween 1

900 and 1

940, A

tlanta’s population ____________________________.

•M

any sharecroppers and tenant farmers, m

any of which w

ere African A

merican, left

Georgia altogether and _

___________________________.

THE N

EW DEA

LHoover•

____________________________ w

as president when the Depression began.

•He believed that private charities and local com

munities should help the needy; it

wasn’t the _

___________________________ to help.

•M

any people believed he ____________________________ A

mericans during the

Depression.

Roosevelt•

A new

president, ____________________________, w

as elected in 1932.

•He introduced a plan to get the country out of the G

reat Depression and ____________________________ for the A

merican people.

•FDR

’s government took an _

___________________________ in trying to help the

economy recover.

New

Deal•

The New

Deal was Roosevelt’s plan to use _

___________________________ to help

the nation recover from the Depression.

•The N

ew Deal had 3 goals:

1.

reduce unemploym

ent by ____________________________

2.

____________________________ for the needy in order to jum

p start the econom

y3.

____________________________ so econom

ic crisis couldn’t happen again

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New

Deal•

Roosevelt first ____________________________ to state governm

ents to help struggling citizens.

•N

ext, Roosevelt, along with his advisors, developed a

____________________________ that w

ould help pull Am

erica out of the G

reat Depression.•

Examples include the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), A

gricultural Adjustm

ent A

ct (AA

A), Rural Electrification A

dministration (REA

), and the ____________________________ A

dministration (SSA

).

CCC•

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) gave ____________________________

between the ages of 1

8 to 25.•

Workers signed up for a project and lived together in cam

ps until ____________________________.

•The CCC put young m

en to work preserving _

___________________________.

•The CCC built roads, _

___________________________, and w

orked on irrigation and national park projects.

•Projects in G

eorgia included planting trees in the Chattahoochee National Forest

and working on the _

___________________________.

•By 1

941, m

ore than ____________________________ had w

orked for the CCC.

AA

A•

____________________________ w

as the main reason farm

ers could not get out of debt.

•The A

gricultural Adjustm

ent Act w

as passed in 1933, and actually

____________________________

to produce certain crops in order to raise farm

prices.•

It also encouraged Georgia’s farm

ers to ____________________________ on

cotton, and to plant peanuts, corn, tobacco, and other crops.•

The act was successful in G

eorgia because it restricted the supply of products and drove the prices up so farm

ers could ____________________________.

•By 1

950, G

eorgia was the country’s leader in

____________________________(chicken farm

s).•

The state’s peach farming industry also m

ade a ____________________________ after years of decline.

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REA•

Roosevelt also set up the ____________________________ A

dministration in

1935.

•At this tim

e, 97% of G

eorgia’s farms w

ere ____________________________.

•The REA

offered low-

interest loans to companies to

____________________________ in rural areas.

•W

ithin 15 years, m

ost of Georgia’s _

___________________________.

SSA•

President Roosevelt also introduced _

___________________________ as part

of the New

Deal, and Congress passed the Social Security Act in 1

935.

•The law

provided ____________________________ and other governm

ent benefits for w

orkers.•

It also ____________________________ for disabled, unem

ployed, and elderly people through contributions m

ade by employees and their em

ployers.

The End?

•W

hile the New

Deal did not completely restore the country to the w

ay it was

before the Depression, it ____________________________ A

mericans cope

during difficult economic tim

es.•

It wasn’t until 1

942 that the Depression w

as truly over –w

hen Am

erica entered ____________________________ …

EUGEN

E TALM

ADG

ETalm

adge•

____________________________, a pow

erful Georgia politician, opposed m

any of the N

ew Deal program

s. •

Talmadge served as _

___________________________ from

1933-

1937 and

from 1

941-

194

3.•

He had a compelling, yet controversial, personality that

____________________________, but others could not stand.

Support•

Many G

eorgians backed Talmadge because he appealed to the

____________________________ that had been struggling for decades.

•Talm

adge fought for the __________________________________, and in

return, they supported him passionately.

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Cloze Notes Seven

Racism•

Talmadge _

___________________________ for A

frican Am

ericans.•

He ____________________________ of G

eorgia’s schools and fired teachers who

supported integration.•

Talmadge w

as referred to as a dictator by many G

eorgians because of his reputation of firing anyone _

___________________________.

No Deal

•Talm

adge believed that the federal government _

___________________________

matters and he refused to back m

ost of Roosevelt’s policies.•

He also argued that the New

Deal programs helped both

____________________________, som

ething he was strongly against.

•G

overnor Talmadge did everything he could to keep N

ew Deal program

s ____________________________.

Goodbye

•B

ecause of his opposition, much of the aid offered by N

ew Deal program

s ____________________________ until after Talm

adge left office.•

The _

___________________________ in G

eorgia led to the election of pro-N

ew

Deal governor Eurith Rivers, w

ho brought more helpful program

s into the state.

GEOR

GIA

& PRESI

DENT ROOSEV

ELTPolio•

Franklin Roosevelt visited Georgia _

___________________________ from

191

3-

194

5.•

Roosevelt had a ____________________________, and visited W

arm Springs for

polio therapy.•

Roosevelt, and other polio patients, exercised in the ____________________________ of the spring to help ease the crippling effects

of polio.

Warm

Springs•

In 1

927, Roosevelt established the ____________________________ and built a

home there.

•He stayed here w

hen he visited Georgia, and it becam

e known as the

____________________________ during his presidency.

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Cloze Notes Eight

Support•

Many G

eorgians were _

___________________________, and he gave m

any speeches throughout the state.

•His firsthand exposure to rural G

eorgia during the Depression helped him create

effective New

Deal programs that helped _

___________________________

throughout the country.

Help•

Roosevelt’s New

Deal policies ____________________________.

•His agricultural policies helped G

eorgia’s farmers and the w

ork programs gave

____________________________.

Legacy•

President Roosevelt w

as visiting Warm

Springs on April 1

2, 194

5, when he died

after suffering a ____________________________.

•Today, m

any people still go to ____________________________ of strokes and

injuries at the Warm

Springs Rehabilitation Center, and Roosevelt’s home is

visited by thousands every year.

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Cloze Notes Nine

GEOR

GIA

’S CONTRIB

UTION

S TO WW

IM

ilitary•

Georgia contributed to W

orld War I

in many w

ays, including food production, textile m

anufacturing, and military involvem

ent.•

Nearly 1

00,0

00 G

eorgians served in the armed forces.

•Over 3,0

00 of G

eorgia’s soldiers lost their lives during the war.

•G

eorgia had more m

ilitary facilities than any other state.•

Georgia w

as home to five m

ilitary camps at the start of the w

ar, and added m

ore by they time it w

as over. •

The facilities were Fort M

cPherson, Fort G

ordon, Fort Oglethorpe, Camp W

heeler, and Cam

p Hancock.•

The camps w

ere used to either train troops, help wounded soldiers, or house

prisoners of war.

Cotton•

During World W

ar I, the increased dem

and for cotton brought prosperity to G

eorgia’s farmers.

•The value of G

eorgia’s cotton crop tripled between 1

900 and 1

916—

making

farmers m

ore prosperous than they had been in over 60 years.

•G

eorgia’s cotton was used to m

ake uniforms for soldiers in the state’s textile

mills.

Textiles•

Georgia’s textile m

ills manufactured fabric that w

as used to make clothing,

blankets, and bandages for soldiers.•

Throughout the war, fabric w

as in high demand for m

ilitary purposes, so more

textiles mills w

ere built throughout Georgia.

Agriculture

•There w

as an increased demand for food production during the w

ar as soldiers overseas needed food supplies.

•G

eorgia’s cotton farmers began to grow

huge quantities of fruit and vegetables.•

Food products like peaches and sweet potatoes w

ere canned in newly built

canning factories across the state.•

Meat w

as also processed in Georgia’s m

eat packing factories before being sent overseas.

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Cloze Notes One

Rationing•

During the war, m

uch of the consumer goods w

ere limited to only w

hat was

necessary for survival. •

The government put w

artime rationing on everything from

sugar, coffee, meat,

butter, shoes, to gasoline.•

Many people started their ow

n “victory gardens” in order to have fresh fruit and vegetables to eat at hom

e, while saving canned foods to ship to soldiers

overseas.

ECONOM

IC FACTOR

S LEADI

NG

TO THE G

REAT DEP

RESSIONA

fterthe

War

•A

fter WW

I, m

any people enjoyed good economic tim

es.•

Increased industrialization left m

any Am

ericans wealthy.

•Unfortunately, farm

ers, like the majority of G

eorgians, still faced many

challenges.

Diversify•

In addition to calling for m

ore industry in Georgia, agriculture experts and N

ew

South businessmen urged farm

ers to diversify their crops.•

Georgia’s farm

ers relied heavily on cotton and refused to take the advice.•

They kept growing cotton (and only cotton) because it w

as the most profitable.

Boll W

eevil•

A tiny, destructive insect know

n as a boll weevil m

ade its way north from

Mexico

and reached Georgia’s farm

s in 191

5.•

The boll weevil w

as devastating to the South because it laid its eggs in cotton plants and the larvae destroyed the cotton bolls.

Destruction•

By the 1920

s, many G

eorgia farmers had lost their crops, m

oney, and their land due to the insects’ destruction.

•The total cotton crop dropped from

1.75 m

illion bales a year to 588,000 in 1

923.

•G

eorgia’s cotton farmers w

ere devasted, cotton was

no longer “king”, and the destruction of the cotton crop forced farm

ers to finally diversify.

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Cloze Notes Two

Drought

•A

severe drought soon followed the boll w

eevil catastrophe from 1

924 to 1

927.•

Without enough rain, farm

ers could not grow as m

uch as they normally did.

•W

ith the damage caused by the boll w

eevil and the droughts, Georgia began to

suffer from a depression long before the rest of the United States.

Changes•

Both the boll w

eevil and the drought had a severe impact on G

eorgia’s agriculture and led to m

any changes in the state.•

Cotton no longer became G

eorgia’s primary agricultural product, and farm

ers produced other goods including peaches, peanuts, and pecans.

•A

lso, tobaccosoon becam

e one of Georgia’s m

ost vital crops.•

The drought and boll weevil forced m

any of Georgia’s farm

ers to abandon their farm

s. •

Betw

een 1920

and 1925, so m

any farmers fell into debt that G

eorgia lost 60

,000 farm

s.•

Awful agricultural conditions caused m

ore and more people to m

igrate to G

eorgia’s cities or to the North to find em

ployment.

Consumerism

•W

hile farmers suffered, the m

ajority of the rest of the nation enjoyed prosperity during the 1

920s.

•People’s spending habits changed as they focused m

ore on buying things rather than on saving.

•B

uying things on credit also became m

ore comm

on, which allow

ed people to buy things right aw

ay rather than having to save to afford them.

Overproduction•

Meanw

hile, industries and businesses were producing m

ore than people could buy.

•Farm

ers were also producing m

ore than people could use.•

With W

WI over, prices for crops fell drastically, m

aking it hard for farmers to

earn a profit.•

Many farm

ers had to borrow m

oney from banks to buy new

equipment and grow

m

ore crops.

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Cloze Notes Three

Stocks•

More and m

ore people began buying stocks.•

When people buy stock, they purchase part ow

nership in companies that they

believe will m

ake money.

•W

hen the companies do w

ell, the stockholders grow w

ealthy.•

During the 1920

s, people often paid for part of a stock and then borrowed

money from

banks to buy the rest.•

In the 1

920s, m

illions of Am

ericans bought stocks on speculation. •

That meant they hoped the price of shares in com

panies would go up.

•This sent the price of stocks up m

ore than they were really w

orth.

Black Tuesday

•W

hen stocks began to drop to their true worth, people panicked and sold their

stocks for much cheaper prices.

•This caused the stock prices to drop rapidly, and on October 29

th, 1929, the stock

market crashed.

•This is know

n as “Black Tuesday” and m

arked the beginning of the Great

Depression.

Crash•

The depression that followed the stock m

arket crash hurt many A

mericans.

•People w

ho were rich one day w

ere poor the next.•

Many banks w

ent out of business, unemploym

ent rose sky high, and thousands of people lost their life savings and their hom

es.

Banks

•During the early 1

900s, there w

as no insurance protecting bank deposits. •

After the stock m

arket crashed, people rushed to banks to withdraw

their m

oney.•

The banks quickly ran out of money, w

hich caused many people to lose their

entire life savings.

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Cloze Notes Four

Depression

•The G

reat Depression was the longest period of unem

ployment and low

econom

ic activity in modern tim

es.•

It began in 1929 and lasted throughout the 1

930s.

•A

griculture income dropped 50

%, 25%

of Am

ericans were unem

ployed, and poverty and hom

elessness were w

idespread.

Georgia

•The Depression hit G

eorgia especially hard.•

Cotton dropped to 5 cents per pound and within a year, m

any farmers lost their

land and moved to cities to find w

ork.•

Betw

een 190

0 and 1

940, A

tlanta’s population grew by 20

0,0

00.

•M

any sharecroppers and tenant farmers, m

any of which w

ere African A

merican,

left Georgia altogether and headed for northern cities.

THE N

EW DEA

LHoover•

Herbert Hoover was president w

hen the Depression began.•

He believed that private charities and local comm

unities should help the needy; it w

asn’t the national government’s job to help.

•M

any people believed he did not do enough to help Am

ericans during the Depression.

Roosevelt•

A new

president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was elected in 1

932.•

He introduced a plan to get the country out of the Great Depression and

promised a “N

ew Deal” for the A

merican people.

•FDR

’s government took an active role in trying to help the econom

y recover.

New

Deal•

The New

Deal was Roosevelt’s plan to use governm

ent programs to help the

nation recover from the Depression.

•The N

ew Deal had 3 goals:

1.

reduce unemploym

ent by creating jobs2.

provide relief for the needy in order to jump start the econom

y3.

change businesses practices so economic crisis couldn’t happen again

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Cloze Notes Five

New

Deal•

Roosevelt first sent federal money to state governm

ents to help struggling citizens.

•N

ext, Roosevelt, along with his advisors, developed a series of program

s that w

ould help pull Am

erica out of the Great Depression.

•Exam

ples include the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Agricultural A

djustment

Act (A

AA

), Rural Electrification Adm

inistration (REA), and the Social Security

Adm

inistration (SSA).

CCC•

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) gave jobs to men betw

een the ages of 18

to 25.•

Workers signed up for a project and lived together in cam

ps until the project’s com

pletion.•

The CCC put young men to w

ork preserving Am

erica’s natural resources.•

The CCC built roads, planted forests, and worked on irrigation and national park

projects.•

Projects in G

eorgia included planting trees in the Chattahoochee National Forest

and working on the A

ppalachian Trail.•

By 194

1, m

ore than 3 million young m

en had worked for the CCC.

AA

A•

Overproduction of farms w

as the main reason farm

ers could not get out of debt.

•The A

gricultural Adjustm

ent Act w

as passed in 1933, and actually paid farm

ers a subsidy N

OT to produce certain crops in order to raise farm prices.

•It also encouraged G

eorgia’s farmers to stop relying solely on cotton, and to

plant peanuts, corn, tobacco, and other crops.•

The act was successful in G

eorgia because it restricted the supply of products and drove the prices up so farm

ers could make a profit.

•By 1

950, G

eorgia was the country’s leader in peanut production and poultry

(chicken farms).

•The state’s peach farm

ing industry also made a huge com

eback after years of decline.

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REA•

Roosevelt also set up the Rural Electrification Adm

inistration in 1935.

•At this tim

e, 97% of G

eorgia’s farms w

ere without electricity.

•The REA

offered low-

interest loans to companies to build pow

er lines in rural areas.

•W

ithin 15 years, m

ost of Georgia’s farm

s had power.

SSA•

President Roosevelt also introduced Social Security as part of the N

ew Deal, and

Congress passed the Social Security Act in 1

935.•

The law provided retirem

ent pay and other government benefits for w

orkers.•

It also provided insurance for disabled, unemployed, and elderly people through

contributions made by em

ployees and their employers.

The End?

•W

hile the New

Deal did not completely restore the country to the w

ay it was

before the Depression, it did help many poor A

mericans cope during difficult

economic tim

es.•

It wasn’t until 1

942 that the Depression w

as truly over –w

hen Am

erica entered W

orld War I

I…

EUGEN

E TALM

ADG

ETalm

adge•

Eugene Talmadge, a pow

erful Georgia politician, opposed m

any of the New

Deal program

s. •

Talmadge served as G

eorgia’s governor from 1

933-1937 and from

194

1-

194

3.•

He had a compelling, yet controversial, personality that m

any Georgians loved,

but others could not stand.

Support•

Many G

eorgians backed Talmadge because he appealed to the rural population

that had been struggling for decades.•

Talmadge fought for the interests of G

eorgia’s poor farmers, and in return, they

supported him passionately.

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Racism•

Talmadge opposed civil rights for A

frican Am

ericans.•

He fought for segregation of Georgia’s schools and fired teachers w

ho supported integration.

•Talm

adge was referred to as a dictator by m

any Georgians because of his

reputation of firing anyone who opposed him

.

No Deal

•Talm

adge believed that the federal government should stay out of state m

atters and he refused to back m

ost of Roosevelt’s policies.•

He also argued that the New

Deal programs helped both blacks and w

hite equally, som

ething he was strongly against.

•G

overnor Talmadge did everything he could to keep N

ew Deal program

s away

from G

eorgia.

Goodbye

•B

ecause of his opposition, much of the aid offered by N

ew Deal program

s did not affect G

eorgia until after Talmadge left office.

•The desire for Social Security in G

eorgia led to the election of pro-N

ew Deal

governor Eurith Rivers, w

ho brought more helpful program

s into the state.

GEOR

GIA

& PRESI

DENT ROOSEV

ELTPolio•

Franklin Roosevelt visited Georgia over 4

0 tim

es from 1

913-

194

5.•

Roosevelt had a disease called polio, and visited Warm

Springs for polio therapy.•

Roosevelt, and other polio patients, exercised in the warm

water pools of the

spring to help ease the crippling effects of polio.

Warm

Springs•

In 1

927, Roosevelt established the Warm

Springs Foundation and built a home

there.•

He stayed here when he visited G

eorgia, and it became know

n as the “Little White

House” during his presidency.

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Support•

Many G

eorgians were big supporters of Roosevelt, and he gave m

any speeches throughout the state.

•His firsthand exposure to rural G

eorgia during the Depression helped him create

effective New

Deal programs that helped alleviate econom

ic problems

throughout the country.

Help•

Roosevelt’s New

Deal policies assisted many G

eorgians.•

His agricultural policies helped Georgia’s farm

ers and the work program

s gave jobs to G

eorgia’s unemployed.

Legacy•

President Roosevelt w

as visiting Warm

Springs on April 1

2, 194

5, when he died

after suffering a massive stroke.

•Today, m

any people still go to Warm

Springs for treatment of strokes and

injuries at the Warm

Springs Rehabilitation Center, and Roosevelt’s home is

visited by thousands every year.

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World War 1through the

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Georgia’s Contributions to

SS8H8a

• Georgia contributed to World War I in many ways, including food production, textile manufacturing, and military involvement.

• Nearly 100,000 Georgians served in the armed forces.

• Over 3,000 of Georgia’s soldiers lost their lives during the war.

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• Georgia had more military facilities than any other state.

• Georgia was home to five military camps at the start of the war, and added more by they time it was over.

• The facilities were Fort McPherson, Fort Gordon, Fort Oglethorpe, Camp Wheeler, and Camp Hancock.

• The camps were used to either train troops, help wounded soldiers, or house prisoners of war.

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Fort McPherson in Atlanta trained new soldiers, held prisoners of war, and treated wounded

soldiers.

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Fort Oglethorpe in North Georgia held prisoners of war.

• During World War I, the increased demand for cotton brought prosperity to Georgia’s farmers.

• The value of Georgia’s cotton crop tripled between 1900 and 1916—making farmers more prosperous than they had been in over 60 years.

• Georgia’s cotton was used to make uniforms for soldiers in the state’s textile mills.

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Wagonloads of Cotton in Statesboro

• Georgia’s textile mills manufactured fabric that was used to make clothing, blankets, and bandages for soldiers.

• Throughout the war, fabric was in high demand for military purposes, so more textiles mills were built throughout Georgia.

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Crown Cotton Mill in Dalton – 1920s

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Hosiery Mill in Union Point Produces Socks.

• There was an increased demand for food production during the war as soldiers overseas needed food supplies.

• Georgia’s cotton farmers began to grow huge quantities of fruit and vegetables.

• Food products like peaches and sweet potatoes were canned in newly built canning factories across the state.

• Meat was also processed in Georgia’s meat packing factories before being sent overseas.

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• During the war, much of the consumer goods were limited to only what was necessary for survival.

• The government put wartime rationing on everything from sugar, coffee, meat, butter, shoes, to gasoline.

• Many people started their own “victory gardens” in order to have fresh fruit and vegetables to eat at home, while saving canned foods to ship to soldiers overseas.

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Victory Garden in Downtown Atlanta

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Economic Factors Leading to the

SS8H8b

• After WWI, many people enjoyed good economic times.

• Increased industrialization left many Americans wealthy.

• Unfortunately, farmers, like the majority of Georgians, still faced many challenges.

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• In addition to calling for more industry in Georgia, agriculture experts and New South businessmen urged farmers to diversify their crops.

• Georgia’s farmers relied heavily on cotton and refused to take the advice.

• They kept growing cotton (and only cotton) because it was the most profitable.

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Picking Cotton near Marietta – 1930s

• A tiny, destructive insect known as a boll weevil made its way north from Mexico and reached Georgia’s farms in 1915.

• The boll weevil was devastating to the South because it laid its eggs in cotton plants and the larvae destroyed the cotton bolls.

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Boll Weevil

• By the 1920s, many Georgia farmers had lost their crops, money, and their land due to the insects’ destruction.

• The total cotton crop dropped from 1.75 million bales a year to 588,000 in 1923.

• Georgia’s cotton farmers were devasted, cotton was no longer “king”, and the destruction of the cotton crop forced farmers to finally diversify.

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Boll Weevil DestructionHealthy Cotton

• A severe drought soon followed the boll weevil catastrophe from 1924 to 1927.

• Without enough rain, farmers could not grow as much as they normally did.

• With the damage caused by the boll weevil and the droughts, Georgia began to suffer from a depression long before the rest of the United States.

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The severe drought led to soil erosion across Georgia.

• Both the boll weevil and the drought had a severe impact on Georgia’s agriculture and led to many changes in the state.

• Cotton no longer became Georgia’s primary agricultural product, and farmers produced other goods including peaches, peanuts, and pecans.

• Also, tobacco soon became one of Georgia’s most vital crops.

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• The drought and boll weevil forced many of Georgia’s farmers to abandon their farms.

• Between 1920 and 1925, so many farmers fell into debt that Georgia lost 60,000 farms.

• Awful agricultural conditions caused more and more people to migrate to Georgia’s cities or to the North to find employment.

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• While farmers suffered, the majority of the rest of the nation enjoyed prosperity during the 1920s.

• People’s spending habits changed as they focused more on buying things rather than on saving.

• Buying things on credit also became more common, which allowed people to buy things right away rather than having to save to afford them.

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• Meanwhile, industries and businesses were producing more than people could buy.

• Farmers were also producing more than people could use.

• With WWI over, prices for crops fell drastically, making it hard for farmers to earn a profit.

• Many farmers had to borrow money from banks to buy new equipment and grow more crops.

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Dairymen Dumping Out Wasted Milk

Farmers continued to massive amounts of food, but the people weren’t buying it. Farmers were

forced to destroy tons and tons of food.

• More and more people began buying stocks.

• When people buy stock, they purchase part ownership in companies that they believe will make money.

• When the companies do well, the stockholders grow wealthy.

• During the 1920s, people often paid for part of a stock and then borrowed money from banks to buy the rest.

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• In the 1920s, millions of Americans bought stocks on speculation.

• That meant they hoped the price of shares in companies would go up.

• This sent the price of stocks up more than they were really worth.

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New York Stock Exchange – 1920s

• When stocks began to drop to their true worth, people panicked and sold their stocks for much cheaper prices.

• This caused the stock prices to drop rapidly, and on October 29th, 1929, the stock market crashed.

• This is known as “Black Tuesday” and marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

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Floor of the NYSE after Black Tuesday.

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Crowd Gathering Outside the NYSE after

the Crash in 1929.

• The depression that followed the stock market crash hurt many Americans.

• People who were rich one day were poor the next.

• Many banks went out of business, unemployment rose sky high, and thousands of people lost their life savings and their homes.

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• During the early 1900s, there was no insurance protecting bank deposits.

• After the stock market crashed, people rushed to banks to withdraw their money.

• The banks quickly ran out of money, which caused many people to lose their entire life savings.

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Crowds Outside of the Bank of the United States in NYC after its Failure in 1931.

• The Great Depression was the longest period of unemployment and low economic activity in modern times.

• It began in 1929 and lasted throughout the 1930s.

• Agriculture income dropped 50%, 25% of Americans were unemployed, and poverty and homelessness were widespread.

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Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother

depicts poor pea pickers in California.

This is Florence Owens Thompson,

age 32, a mother of seven children, in

March 1936.

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Impoverished American Family Living in a Shanty –Oklahoma, 1936

• The Depression hit Georgia especially hard.

• Cotton dropped to 5 cents per pound and within a year, many farmers lost their land and moved to cities to find work.• Between 1900 and 1940, Atlanta’s

population grew by 200,000.

• Many sharecroppers and tenant farmers, many of which were African American, left Georgia altogether and headed for northern cities.

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Family Hitchhiking to Macon in Search of Work

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The

SS8H8e

• Herbert Hoover was president when the Depression began.

• He believed that private charities and local communities should help the needy; it wasn’t the national government’s job to help.

• Many people believed he did not do enough to help Americans during the Depression.

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• A new president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was elected in 1932.

• He introduced a plan to get the country out of the Great Depression and promised a “New Deal” for the American people.

• FDR’s government took an active role in trying to help the economy recover.

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32nd PresidentFranklin D.

Roosevelt in 1933

• The New Deal was Roosevelt’s plan to use government programs to help the nation recover from the Depression.

• The New Deal had 3 goals:1. reduce unemployment by creating

jobs2. provide relief for the needy in order

to jump start the economy3. change businesses practices so

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• Roosevelt first sent federal money to state governments to help struggling citizens.

• Next, Roosevelt, along with his advisors, developed a series of programs that would help pull America out of the Great Depression.

• Examples include the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), Rural Electrification Administration (REA), and the Social Security Administration (SSA).

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• The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) gave jobs to men between the ages of 18 to 25.

• Workers signed up for a project and lived together in camps until the project’s completion.

• The CCC put young men to work preserving America’s natural resources.

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Lunch Time at a CCC Camp

• The CCC built roads, planted forests, and worked on irrigation and national park projects.

• Projects in Georgia included planting trees in the Chattahoochee National Forest and working on the Appalachian Trail.

• By 1941, more than 3 million young men had worked for the CCC.

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CCC Workers Building Telephone Poles

• Overproduction of farms was the main reason farmers could not get out of debt.

• The Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed in 1933, and actually paid farmers a subsidy NOT to produce certain crops in order to raise farm prices.

• It also encouraged Georgia’s farmers to stop relying solely on cotton, and to plant peanuts, corn, tobacco, and other crops.

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• The act was successful in Georgia because it restricted the supply of products and drove the prices up so farmers could make a profit.

• By 1950, Georgia was the country’s leader in peanut production and poultry (chicken farms).

• The state’s peach farming industry also made a huge comeback after years of decline.

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• Roosevelt also set up the Rural Electrification Administration in 1935.

• At this time, 97% of Georgia’s farms were without electricity.

• The REA offered low-interest loans to companies to build power lines in rural areas.

• Within 15 years, most of Georgia’s farms had power.

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Rural Schools Receives Electricity

• President Roosevelt also introduced Social Security as part of the New Deal, and Congress passed the Social Security Act in 1935.

• The law provided retirement pay and other government benefits for workers.

• It also provided insurance for disabled, unemployed, and elderly people through contributions made by employees and their employers.

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President Roosevelt Signing Social Securities Act - 1935

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Social Security is the only New Deal program

still around today.

• While the New Deal did not completely restore the country to the way it was before the Depression, it did help many poor Americans cope during difficult economic times.

• It wasn’t until 1942 that the Depression was truly over – when America entered World War II…

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SS8H8c

• Eugene Talmadge, a powerful Georgia politician, opposed many of the New Deal programs.

• Talmadge served as Georgia’s governor from 1933-1937 and from 1941-1943.

• He had a compelling, yet controversial, personality that many Georgians loved, but others could not stand.

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• Many Georgians backed Talmadge because he appealed to the rural population that had been struggling for decades.

• Talmadge fought for the interests of Georgia’s poor farmers, and in return, they supported him passionately.

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• Talmadge opposed civil rights for African Americans.

• He fought for segregation of Georgia’s schools and fired teachers who supported integration.

• Talmadge was referred to as a dictator by many Georgians because of his reputation of firing anyone who opposed him.

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• Talmadge believed that the federal government should stay out of state matters and he refused to back most of Roosevelt’s policies.

• He also argued that the New Deal programs helped both blacks and white equally, something he was strongly against.

• Governor Talmadge did everything he could to keep New Deal programs away from Georgia.

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• Because of his opposition, much of the aid offered by New Deal programs did not affect Georgia until after Talmadge left office.

• The desire for Social Security in Georgia led to the election of pro-New Deal governor Eurith Rivers, who brought more helpful programs into the state.

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• Franklin Roosevelt visited Georgia over 40 times from 1913-1945.

• Roosevelt had a disease called polio, and visited Warm Springs for polio therapy.

• Roosevelt, and other polio patients, exercised in the warm water pools of the spring to help ease the crippling effects of polio.

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• In 1927, Roosevelt established the Warm Springs Foundation and built a home there.

• He stayed here when he visited Georgia, and it became known as the “Little White House” during his presidency.

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• Many Georgians were big supporters of Roosevelt, and he gave many speeches throughout the state.

• His firsthand exposure to rural Georgia during the Depression helped him create effective New Deal programs that helped alleviate economic problems throughout the country.

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• Roosevelt’s New Deal policies assisted many Georgians.

• His agricultural policies helped Georgia’s farmers and the work programs gave jobs to Georgia’s unemployed.

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• President Roosevelt was visiting Warm Springs on April 12, 1945, when he died after suffering a massive stroke.

• Today, many people still go to Warm Springs for treatment of strokes and injuries at the Warm Springs Rehabilitation Center, and Roosevelt’s home is visited by thousands every year.

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TEACHER INFO: Foldables

• Print off the two foldables for each student.• The students will cut the template out along the

thick, outside lines.• Next, they will cut along the thin lines that divide

each word, stopping at the gray rectangle.• They should attach the side of the template (gray

rectangle) to their notebooks.• They will now be able to open up each flap and

write information about each key term underneath.

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Boll Weevil Destructive insect from Mexico that wiped out cotton throughout GA & the South; thousands of GA farmers were devastated

Drought 1924-1927 - 3 years of severe drought, no rain caused many GA farmers to abandon farms and move to cities to find work

Bank Failure Banks had no insurance on money; after Great Depression began, people went to withdraw their money, but it was gone; many lost their life savings

CCC Program that put young men back to work preserving the nation’s national resources.

AAA Legislation that set up a system that paid farmers to plant less in order to restrict the supply and drive up prices; encouraged farmers to diversify crops and not rely on cotton

REA Offered loans to companies to build power-lines in rural areas and provided electricity to small farmers who previously didn’t have any

SSA Program that provides retirement pay and other government benefits for workers

TEACHER INFO: Magazine Article & Ad

• Print off the Magazine Article handout for each student. (Project the handout with red directions on the board.)

• The students will write an article that could be found in a magazine during this time period. The purpose of the article is to describe Georgia’s contributions to World War I.

• On the left side of the paper, the students will create an advertisement for something that Georgians can do to help with war effort. (Examples: plant a victory garden, volunteer at a textile mill making bandages, etc.)

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Create an advertisement for something that Georgians could do in order to participate in the

war effort.Draw an

illustration that corresponds with

the article.

Price Write an article that could be found in a magazine

during this time period. The purpose of the article is to describe how Georgia has contributed to World War

I.

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Draw and picture to go along with the advertisement.

Advertisement:

TEACHER INFO: History Board• Print off the Economic Factors of the Great

Depression History Board handout for each student.

• The students will create a storyboard of the major factors that resulted in the GreatDepression.

• The students will write a brief description under each caption and draw a colorful illustration for each event.

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Great Depression History Board

Boll Weevil

Directions: Create a storyboard that outlines the economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression. Write a brief description under the caption and draw an illustration to portray each event.

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Drought Consumerism

Overproduction Stock Market Crash Bank Failure

TEACHER INFO: Political Cartoon Analysis

• Print off the Political Cartoon Analysis sheet for each student and project the slide with the political cartoon onto the board.

• Students should analyze the cartoon and answer the corresponding questions. *This is a good activity to do in pairs because the discussion is helpful.

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Directions: Spend some time analyzing the political cartoon, then answer the questions below.

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Describe what you see in the cartoon. List the objects/people.

Which of the objects are symbols? What do you think each symbol means?

Describe the action taking place in the cartoon: Explain the message of the cartoon:

Who would agree with the cartoon’s message? Why?

Who would disagree with the cartoon’s message> Why?

TEACHER INFO: Executive Emails

• Print off the Executive Emails handout for each student.

• The students will write an email from Eugene Talmadge to Franklin Roosevelt. The email should include why Talmadge disagreed with Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

• Next, the students will write a response from the perspective of Roosevelt.

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Executive EmailsDirections: Why do you think Eugene Talmadge disagreed with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs that helped many Americans during the Great Depression? Imagine that they were both alive today. Write an email from Talmadge to Roosevelt that explains why he disagreed with the New Deal. Next, write a response from Roosevelt.

New Message

To:

From:

Subject:

Send

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New Message

To:

From:

Subject:

Send

TEACHER INFO: Help Wanted• Print off copies of the Help Wanted handout for each

student and display the slide with red direction onto the board.

• The students will choose one of the New Deal programs (CCC, AAA, REA, or Social Security Administration) and create a Help Wanted advertisement for that particular program.

• They should describe the job, skills needed, location (city, national park, etc.) and draw a picture of workers in action.

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Directions: Create a Help Wanted flier for one of the New Deal programs – CCC, REA, AAA, or Social Security Administration. Describe the job that the program is working on, and draw a picture of workers in action.

Help WantedJob Title:Pay:

Job Description:

Skills Needed:

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Directions: Create a Help Wanted flier for one of the New Deal programs – CCC, REA, AAA, or Social Security Administration. Describe the job that the program is working on, and draw a picture of workers in action.

Help WantedJob Title:Pay:

Job Description:

Skills Needed:

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Describe the skills that the workers will need for the job.

Describe the job. What will the workers be doing? Where will they be working

(city, national park, etc.)?

CCC, REA, AAA, or Social Security$

Draw an illustration of workers in action.

Write a caption.

TEACHER INFO: Greetings from Georgia Postcard

• Print out the Greetings from Georgia Postcard handout for each student.

• The students will write a postcard from the point of view of President Roosevelt while he is visiting Warm Springs, Georgia. The postcard should describe Roosevelt’s connection to the state (polio, Warm Springs, Little White House, etc.) and also how his relationship with rural Georgia has impacted his New Deal programs.

• On the top, they will draw an illustration.

• If time allows, the students can cut out the cards and tape the front to the back like an actual postcard.

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Directions: W

rite a postcard from the point of view

of President Roosevelt w

hile he is visiting W

arm Springs, G

eorgia. The postcard should describe Roosevelt’s connection to the state (polio,

Warm

Springs, Little White House, etc.) and also how

his relationship with rural G

eorgia has im

pacted his New

Deal programs.

Greetings from G

eorgia

TEACHER INFO: Comprehension Check• Print off the Comprehension Check handout

for each student.

• Students will complete the assignment after discussing the presentation. This can also be used as a quiz!

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1. List at least four w

ays Georgians contributed to W

orld War I

:

2. How did

the bollweevildestroy

thecotton

cropthroughout

Georgia

and theSouth?

3. What im

pactdid

thebollw

eevil damage have on the state of G

eorgia?

4. W

hy do you think agricultural experts urged Georgia’s farm

ers to diversify their crops?

5. Both the

bollweeviland

droughtforced

many of G

eorgia’s farmers to do w

hat?

6. What m

ajorevent triggered the G

reatDepression?

7. How did

bankfailures

contributeto

thedepression?

8. What w

aslife

likefor farm

ers in Georgia during

theG

reatDepression?

9. Which president w

as in office during the beginning of the Great Depression but

didn’t do much to help A

mericans?

10. W

ho was elected president in 1

932 with prom

ises to pull Am

erica out of the Depression?

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11. W

hat were

the3

goalsof

theN

ewDeal:

12. W

hich New

Dealprogramput

youngm

enback

tow

orkpreserving A

merica’s

natural resources?

13. How

didthe

AgriculturalA

djustment A

ct impact G

eorgia?

14. The Rural Electrification A

dministration com

pletely changed the lives of _______________________________.

15. W

hich programset

upinsurance

forelderly,disabled,and

unemployed

people?

16. Did Roosevelt’s

New

Dealfullyend

theG

reatDepression in the United States?

17. W

hy was Eugene Talm

adge strongly opposed to President Roosevelt’s N

ew Deal?

18. Talm

adge continuedto

win

electionsin

Georgia

becausehe

was

supportedby

whom

?

19. W

hat were

President

Roosevelt’s ties to Georgia?

20. How

doyou

thinkthe

time

Roosevelt spent in a poor, rural state (Georgia at the

time) helped him

as president during the Depression?

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1. List at least four w

ays Georgians contributed to W

orld War I

:100,0

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soldiersfought,5

military facilities in GA

, increased cotton and food production, textile m

ills manufactured uniform

s,blankets, bandages, etc., planted victory gardens2. How

didthe bollw

eevildestroythe

cottoncrop

throughoutG

eorgiaand the

South?It laid its eggs in a cotton plant & then the larvae destroyed the grow

ing cotton bolls3. W

hat impact

didthe

bollweevil dam

age have on the state of Georgia?

Cotton production droppedfrom

1.75

million

balesa

yearto

588,000

in1923

4. W

hy do you think agricultural experts urged Georgia’s farm

ers to diversify their crops?A

nswers w

illvary,butthey

depended too heavily on cotton and should have been grow

ing more than one crop

5. Both the

bollweeviland

droughtforced

many of G

eorgia’s farmers to do w

hat?A

bandontheir

farms

and head to cities to find work

6. What m

ajorevent triggered the G

reatDepression?

Stock Market Crash in 1

9297. How

didbank

failurescontribute

tothe

depression?B

anks did not have insurance and when people w

hen so many people w

ent to w

ithdraw their m

oney, banks soon ran out; people lost their life savings8. W

hat was

lifelike

for farmers in G

eorgia duringthe

Great

Depression?Cotton prices tanked, farm

ers had no money and couldn’t get loans to buy seed,

equipment, etc., m

any left farming and m

oved north to find work in cities

9. Which president w

as in office during the beginning of the Great Depression but

didn’t do much to help A

mericans?

HerbertHoover

10. W

ho was elected president in 1

932 with prom

ises to pull Am

erica out of the Depression?Franklin D. Roosevelt

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11. W

hat were

the3

goalsof

theN

ewDeal:

Reduce unemploym

ent by creating jobs, provide relief in order to jumpstart

economy, reform

the way A

mericans did business to prevent this from

happening again12. W

hich New

Dealprogramput

youngm

enback

tow

orkpreserving A

merica’s

natural resources?Civilian Conservation Corps13. How

didthe

AgriculturalA

djustment A

ct impact G

eorgia?Paid farm

ersto

diversifytheir

cropsand

notrely on cotton

14. The Rural Electrification A

dministration com

pletely changed the lives of _

__

__

__

__

__

__

__

_.

Rural farmers (people in rural areas)

15. W

hich programset

upinsurance

forelderly,disabled,and

unemployed

people?Social Security A

dministration

16. Did Roosevelt’s

New

Dealfullyend

theG

reatDepression in the United States?

No,it

didnot

fullyend

untilWorld

War

II

started17. W

hy was Eugene Talm

adge strongly opposed to President Roosevelt’s N

ew Deal?

He didn’tthink

nationalgovernment

should impose

onstate

governments’ econom

ies;also,he

didnot

like that the programs helped both blacks and w

hites equally18. Talm

adge continuedto

win

electionsin

Georgia

becausehe

was

supportedby

whom

?Rural, w

hite citizens19. W

hat were

President

Roosevelt’s ties to Georgia?

Roosevelthad a disease called polio. He traveled to W

arm Springs, GA

for polio therapy in the w

arm w

ater. He set up the Warm

Springs Foundation and built the “Little W

hite House” there. Rooseveltsuffered a m

assive stroke and died there.20

. How do

youthink

thetim

eRoosevelt spent in a poor, rural state (G

eorgia at the tim

e) helped him as president during the Depression?

Answ

ers willvary,Roosevelt’s exposure to rural G

eorgia and its problems helped his

New

Deal programs get to the heart of econom

ic and social problems in the US

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