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Georgia 8th Grade Clickbook
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Unit 1: Georgia Geography
Chapter 1: Know Your State Geography
Lesson 1: Where Is Georgia? Reinforcement of 8th Grade Skills Requirement
What Is Geography?
Where in the World Is Georgia?
Know Your Hemispheres
Flash Point
Location: It’s All Relative
Map Skills
Absolute Location
How to Write Latitude & Longitude
Flash Point
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Grid for Absolute Location
Map Skills
Lesson 2: Regions & Physical Features SS8G1a, b, c, d
What Are Regions?
Regions in Georgia
Explore the Regions
Map Skills
Skill Builder
Physical Features of Georgia
Flash Point
Map Skills
Impact on Georgia
The Importance of Water
Skill Builder
Writing Prompt
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Lesson 3: Georgia’s Climate SS8G1b
Georgia’s Climate
Location & Climate
Map Skills
Impact of Climate
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Inclement Weather
Unit 2: European Exploration to Colonial Georgia
Special Content Color Key:
Dig Deeper Click&Learn Activity (Bios, Battles, Documents, & More!) Expansion Activity
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Chapter 1: American Indians in Georgia SS8H1a
Lesson 1: The Mighty Mississippian Indians
Mississippian Indians
Mississippian Society
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Cherokee and Creek Indians
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Chapter 2: European Exploration & Settlement
Lesson 1: First European Contact SS8H1-intro
Age of Discovery
Claiming Territory: Different Theories
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Early Explorers & Land Claims
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Lesson 2: Spain & France in the Southeast SS8H1b, c
Spanish Interests
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French Interests in the Southeast
Attempts to Settle the Southeast
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Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
De Soto in Georgia
De Soto & the American Indians
Flash Point
Impact on American Indians
Writing Prompt
Spanish Missions
Missions on the Barrier Islands
Skill Builder
Writing Prompt
Lesson 3: British Interest in the Southeast SS8H1b
Make Way for Great Britain!
Reasons for British Colonization
Skill Builder
Mercantilism Explained
Primary Source
British in the Southeast
Skill Builder
Map Skills
Chapter 3: Colonial Georgia
Lesson 1: The Founding of Georgia SS8H2a, b, e
Hard Times in Britain
Flash Point
Oglethorpe’s Vision for Georgia
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A Charter for Georgia
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The Trustee Colony
Charter of 1732
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Who Settled Georgia?
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Writing Prompt
Settlement at Yamacraw Bluff
Friends to Georgians
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
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Founding of Savannah
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Lesson 2: The Trustee Period SS8H2c, e
The Trustee Period
Rules and Regulations
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Georgia’s Agriculture Stumbles
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Tolerance in Georgia
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The Salzburgers
Highland Scots
Flash Point
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The Spanish Threat from Florida
The English and Spanish Clash!
Battle of the Bloody Marsh
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End of Trustee Georgia
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Lesson 3: Georgia, the Royal Colony SS8H2d, e
Royal Government in Georgia
Georgia Begins to Thrive
Flash Point
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Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Three Royal Governors of Georgia
Skill Builder
Writing Prompt
Project-Based Learning
Unit 3: The American Revolution & Statehood
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Chapter 1: Road to the Revolution
Lesson 1: Introduction to the Revolution SS8H3-intro
Intro to the American Revolution
Ideas and Discontent
Lesson 2: Road to the Revolution SS8H2e & SS8H3a
The French & Indian War
Flash Point
Land Changes Hands
Proclamation of 1763
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Reactions to the Proclamation
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Taxes: A Source of Conflict
Flash Point
Stamp Act: “Taxation without Representation”
Reaction to the Stamp Act
Georgia Reacts to the Stamp Act
Flash Point
Tensions Escalate!
Primary Source
Tea Act (1773)
Boston Tea Party
Primary Source
Coercive Acts, or “Intolerable” Acts
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The Final Straw
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Primary Source
Lesson 3: Declaring Independence SS8H3b
Timeline to Independence
Flash Point
Skill Builder
Writing Prompt
Declaration of Independence
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Meet Georgia’s Signers
Skill Builder
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Project-Based Learning
Chapter 2: Georgia in the Revolution
Lesson 1: Loyalists vs. Patriots SS8H3c
Split Loyalties
Patriot Takeover in Georgia
Skill Builder
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Project-Based Learning
Lesson 2: Fighting in Georgia SS8H3c
Skirmishes in the Backcountry
The British Are Back!
Battle of Kettle Creek
The Siege of Savannah
Skill Builder
Nancy Hart
Victory
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Chapter 3: Georgia & the U.S. Constitution
Lesson 1: The First Constitutions: Georgia & United States SS8H3d
Georgia Constitution of 1777
Flash Point
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Writing Prompt
The Articles of Confederation
Flash Point
A Limping Government
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Debate over the Articles
Flash Point
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Lesson 2: Making of the U.S. Constitution SS8H3d
Constitutional Convention 1787
Georgia Makes Its Mark
Flash Point
The Great Compromise
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The Three-Fifths Compromise
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A Federation Is Established
The Bill of Rights
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Georgia’s Statehood
Flash Point
Unit 4: Expansion & Indian Removal
Chapter 1: Expansion & Growth in Georgia
Lesson 1: Land Policies SS8H5a, b & SS8G1d
Westward Expansion
Georgians Look Westward
Flash Point
Headright System
Land Speculation
Yazoo Land Fraud
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Land Lotteries
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The Shifting Capital
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Lesson 2: Education in Georgia SS8H5a
University of Georgia
Flash Point
Lesson 3: Economics: Cotton & Railroads SS8H5c
Georgia’s Agricultural Economy
Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin
King Cotton
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Slavery Increases
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Connecting the State
Railroads Bring Growth
Flash Point
Map Skills
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Chapter 2: American Indian Removal
Lesson 1: Removal of the Creeks SS8h5d
Creeks in Georgia
Map Skills
Clash of Cultures
Flash Point
Hawkins & Assimilation
Red Sticks War
Skill Builder
McIntosh: Man of Two Cultures
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Lesson 2: Removal of the Cherokee SS8H5e
Cherokee Nation in Georgia
Sequoyah’s Syllabary
Flash Point
A Civilized Nation
Georgia Pushes In!
Enrichment Reading & Higher-Order Thinking
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Jackson & Indian Removal
Primary Source
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Cherokees Take Action
Flash Point
Missionaries Continue the Fight
Worcester v. Georgia
Treaty of New Echota
Flash Point
Forced Removal
Primary Source
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Writing Prompt
Unit 5: The Civil War & Reconstruction
Chapter 1: Road to the Civil War
Lesson 1: Sectionalism: Slavery & States’ Rights SS8H5a
Sectionalism Divides the Nation
Flash Point
Comparing North & South
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Issue of States’ Rights
Nullification Controversy
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The Issue of Slavery
Reasons For & Against Slavery
Flash Point
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Slave Life on the Plantation
Abolitionists in the North
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Writing Prompt
Project-Based Learning
Lesson 2: Compromises Delay the Civil War SS8H5a
Slavery in the West?
The Missouri Compromise (1820)
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Tensions Rise Again (1850)
Compromise of 1850
The Georgia Platform (1850)
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Writing Prompt
Lesson 3: Events Leading to Secession SS8H5a
Path to the Civil War
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
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The Dred Scott Case
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Election of 1860
Flash Point
Map Skills
Secession Begins
A Big Decision for Georgia
Georgia Secedes
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Alexander Stephens at the Secession Convention
Primary Source
Project-Based Learning
Chapter 2: The Civil War
Lesson 1: Beginning of the War SS8H5a
Creation of the Confederacy
To Preserve the Union
First Shots of the Civil War
Skill Builder
Primary Source
A Nation Firmly Divided
Map Skills
Union vs. Confederacy
Skill Builder
The Union Blockade
Blockade Runners
Flash Point
Lesson 2: Life in Georgia SS8G1d & SS8H5a, b
Georgians in the Civil War
Heart of the Confederacy
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Georgia’s Home Front
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Lesson 3: Key Battles of the Civil War SS8H5b
Battle of Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation
Effects of Emancipation
Flash Point
Writing Prompt
Battle of Gettysburg
The Gettysburg Address
Flash Point
Primary Source
Skill Builder
Lesson 4: War Comes to Georgia SS8H5b
War Comes to Georgia
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Horror At Andersonville Prison
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The Atlanta Campaign
Burning of Atlanta
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Skill Builder
Primary Source
Surrender of the Confederacy
Chapter 3: Reconstruction
Lesson 1: Intro to Reconstruction SS8H6-intro
What Was Reconstruction?
Lesson 2: Economic Reconstruction SS8H6b, c, e
Hard Times for Georgians
Economic Woes in Georgia
Flash Point
Primary Source
Cotton’s Comeback
Skill Builder
Tenant Farmers & Sharecroppers
Flash Point
Arrival of Northerners
The Freedmen’s Bureau
Skill Builder
Primary Source
Churches Bring Education
Objections to Northern Aid
Skill Builder
Writing Prompt
Lesson 3: Political Reconstruction SS8H6a, b, c, d
Plans for Political Reconstruction
Flash Point
Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1866)
Congressional Reconstruction (1866-1867)
Military Reconstruction (1867-1870)
Skill Builder
Writing Prompt
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Skill Builder
Georgia’s Freedmen Vote
Black Legislators in Georgia
The Ku Klux Klan in GA
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End of Reconstruction
Writing Prompt
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Unit 6: The New South
Chapter 1: The New South Era
Lesson 1: Georgia Industry Grows SS8H7a
Democrat “Redeemers”
The Bourbon Redeemers
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The Bourbon Triumvirate
Henry Grady’s New South
Skill Builder
Primary Source
International Cotton Expositions
Flash Point
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Lesson 2: Success & Growing Pains SS8H7a
New Industries in Georgia
Mill Towns
Atlanta: Gate City to the South
Flash Point
Primary Source
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Labor Issues
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Chapter 2: The Populists Party
Lesson 1: The Populist Movement SS8H7a
The Populists: Farmers Unite!
Tom Watson: Georgia Populist
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Chapter 3: Race in the New South
Lesson 1: Discrimination & Disenfranchisement SS8H7b
Jim Crow Segregation
Jim Crow in the South
Flash Point
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Disfranchisement
Georgia: A One-Party State
Skill Builder
Ku Klux Klan at the Polls
Writing Prompt
Map Skills
Lesson 2: Hope and Violence in the New South SS8H7b, c, d
Leading Black Voices
Booker T. Washington
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W.E.B. DuBois
Flash Point
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Help for the Black Community
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1906 Atlanta Race Riot
Leo Frank Case
Flash Point
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Unit 7: WWI, Depression, & Recovery
Chapter 1: World War I
Lesson 1: Start of the War SS8H8-intro
Outbreak of World War I
U.S. Stays Neutral (1914-1917)
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Off to War!
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Lesson 2: Georgia in WWI SS8H8a
Georgia Contributes to WWI
Contributions & the Economy
Skill Builder
End of WWI
Primary Source
Chapter 2: Depression & the New Deal
Lesson 1: Disasters in Georgia SS8H8b
Prosperity after WWI
Agriculture Hit Hard
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Impact on Georgians
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Lesson 2: The Great Depression SS8H8b
Black Tuesday: Crash of 1929
The Great Depression
The Cycle of Depression
Flash Point
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Depression in Georgia
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Lesson 3: FDR’s New Deal & Eugene Talmadge SS8H8c, e
Roosevelt’s New Deal
New Deal Programs
Flash Point
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Primary Source
Eugene Talmadge
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Talmadge’s Governorship
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Talmadge & the New Deal
The New Deal in Georgia
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Writing Prompt
Unit 8: World War II & Postwar Growth
Chapter 1: World War II
Lesson 1: Causes of WWII SS8H9-intro
Treaty of Versailles
Skill Builder
Economic Problems
Rise of Dictators
Flash Point
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Fascist Governments
Flash Point
Appeasement on the Road to War
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Lesson 2: United States in WWII SS8H9a
Isolationism in the U.S.
Primary Source
Prepare for War!
The Lend-Lease Act
Skill Builder
Primary Source
Writing Prompt
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The U.S. Enters WWII
Flash Point
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Beginning of the End
The Holocaust
Victory Over Japan
Flash Point
Lesson 3: Georgia’s Role in WWII SS8H8d & SS8H9b, c
Military Bases in Georgia
Legislators Lead the Way
Flash Point
War Brings Recovery
Bell Aircraft in Marietta
Shipyards on Georgia’s Coast
Skill Builder
Changes in Georgia Society
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FDR’s Ties to Georgia
Flash Point
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Chapter 2: Postwar Growth in Georgia
Lesson 1: Growth and Change SS8H10a, b
Changes on the Farm
Skill Builder
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Atlanta Grows Up
Two Mayors Lead the Way
Skill Builder
Major League Sports
Flash Point
Unit 9: GA & the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 1: Early Civil Rights (1940-1959)
Lesson 1: Beginnings of Change SS8H10c
Times Were A’Changin’
Truman for Civil Rights
Georgians for Change
Flash Point
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End of the White Primary
The Governor’s Race of 1946
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Lesson 2: Brown v. Board of Education SS8H11a
Inequality in Education
Primary Source
Brown v. Board of Education
The Decision to Integrate
Resistance to Integration
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A New Flag
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Chapter 2: The Civil Rights Movement (1960-1970)
Lesson 1: Integration in Georgia SS8H11a
To Integrate, or Not?
Sibley Commission Results
Skill Builder
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Lesson 2: Protesting for Change SS8H11b, c & SS8H12a
Nonviolence & Transportation
Citizens for Civil Rights
The Albany Movement
Skill Builder
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March on Washington
Landmark Legislation
Skill Builder
New Faces in Politics
Contributions of Andrew Young
Lester Maddox
Flash Point
Writing Prompt
Unit 10: Modern Georgia
Chapter 1: The Legacy of Jimmy Carter
Lesson 1: From Farmer to President SS8H12b
Peanut Farmer From Plains
Early Political Career of Jimmy Carter
Governor of Georgia
Flash Point
Road to the Presidency
Major Issues during Carter’s Presidency
Carter’s Accomplishments as President
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After Carter’s Presidency
Skill Builder
Enrichment Reading & Higher-Order Thinking
Enrichment Reading & Higher-Order Thinking
Chapter 2: Recent Developments in Georgia
Lesson 1: 1996 Summer Olympic Games SS8H12a, c
Road to the 1996 Olympic Games
Let the Games Begin!
The Games Bring Growth
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Lesson 2: Georgia’s Modernizing Economy SS8H12d
Tourism in Georgia
Hollywood Comes to Georgia!
Expansion in Savannah
Flash Point
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
Project-Based Learning
Unit 11: Georgia’s Government
Chapter 1: Georgia’s Government
Lesson 1: Basic Concepts of Government SS8CG1a, b, c, d, e
The Georgia State Constitution
Relationship Between State & Federal
Flash Point
Separation of Powers
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Checks and Balances
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Rights and Responsibilities
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Voting in Georgia
Flash Point
I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag
Flash Point
Writing Prompt
Lesson 2: Legislative Branch SSCG2a, b, c, d
Georgia’s General Assembly
Skill Builder
General Assembly Leadership
The Legislative Branch
Funding the State Government
Who Gets the Money?
Flash Point
Project-Based Learning
Lesson 3: Executive Branch SS8CG3a, b
The Executive Branch
Skill Builder
Branching Out!
Flash Point
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Lesson 4: Judicial Branch SS8CG4a, b, c, d
Interpreting the Law
Flash Point
Selection of Judges
Flash Point
You Must Obey the Law
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Steps in the Criminal Justice Process
Skill Builder
Writing Prompt
Lesson 5: Georgia’s Court System & Juvenile Offenders SS8CG5a, b, c
Delinquent Behavior, or Unruly Behavior?
Writing Prompt
Juveniles Have Rights, Too
Steps in the Juvenile Criminal Justice System
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Do the Crime, Do the Time
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Lesson 6: Local Governments in Georgia SS8CG6a, b
City Governments
Enrichment Reading & Higher Order Thinking
County Governments
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Local Governments Help State Government
Skill Builder
Special-Purpose Governments
A Growing Population
Funding and Spending Decisions
Flash Point
Writing Prompt
Project-Based Learning
Unit 12: Economic Understandings
Chapter 1: Georgia’s Economy
Lesson 1: Transportation Systems SS8E1a, b
Do You Want to Trade?
Transportation Systems in Georgia
Flash Point
Goods Comes In, Goods Go Out
Successful Georgia Entrepreneurs
Map Skills
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Growing Georgia Jobs
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Lesson 2: Impact of Georgia’s Entrepreneurs and Businesses SS8E2a, b, c
Starting a Business
Profit
Georgia Businesses that Really Took Off
Skill Builder
Leading the Way for Georgia’s Growth
Flash Point
Writing Prompt
Project-Based Learning
Chapter 2: Personal Money Management
Lesson 1: Your Money, Your Life SS8E3a, b, c, d
Economic Choices Begin Now!
Income
Increasing Income
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Making Economic Choices
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Spend, or Save?
Weigh Your Options
Writing Prompt
Keep a Budget
Spending Adds Up
Debt is Tricky!
Debt: Benefits & Risks
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Saving
Flash Point
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Investing
Options for Investing
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Dig-Deeper Battles
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Kettle Creek
Siege of Savannah
Battle of Chickamauga
Dig-Deeper Biographies
Hernando de Soto (1496 - 1542)
Tomochichi (1650 - 1739)
James Oglethorpe (1696 - 1785)
The Salzburgers
The Highland Scots
Button Gwinnett (1735 - 1777)
Lyman Hall (1724 - 1790)
Elijah Clarke (1742 - 1799)
William Few, Jr. (1748 - 1828)
George Walton (1749 - 1804)
Abraham Baldwin (1754 - 1807)
Austin Dabney (1765 - 1830)
Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845)
Sequoyah (c.a. 1770 - 1840)
Major Ridge (c.a. 1771 - 1839)
Chief William McIntosh (1778 - 1825)
John Ross (c.a. 1790 - 1866)
Alexander Stephens (1812 - 1873)
Joseph E. Brown (1821 - 1894)
Alfred H. Colquitt (1824 - 1894)
John B. Gordon (1832 - 1904)
Henry McNeal Turner (1834 - 1915)
Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835 - 1930)
Henry Grady (1850 - 1889)
Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
Tom Watson (1856 - 1922)
W.E.B. DuBois (1868 - 1963)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)
Carl Vinson (1883 - 1981)
Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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William B. Hartsfield (1890 - 1971)
Benjamin Mays (1894 - 1984)
Richard B. Russell (1897 - 1971)
Ellis Arnall (1907 - 1992)
Jimmy Carter (1924 - present)
Lester Maddox (1915 - 2003)
Ivan Allen, Jr. (1911 - 2003)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Maynard Jackson (1938 - 2003)
Milestone Decisions
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Dred Scott v Sanford
Milestone Documents
Day of Infamy Speech
Declaration of Independence
Georgia’s State Constitutions
Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
“I Have a Dream” Speech
Explore More!
Valley and Ridge
Appalachian Plateau
Blue Ridge
Piedmont
Coastal Plains
Convict Lease System
Who Is Jim Crow?
League of Nations
The City Too Busy to Hate
Sons of Liberty
Separation of Power & Checks and Balances
The Republican Party
Systems of Government
Project-Based Learning
Labor in the 1900s & Laws Today
Promote Georgia
Hurricane Tracker
Georgia’s Sports
In Their Own Words
King Cotton & the Cotton Gin
Know Your County
Know Your City
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