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The First Five March 20, 2014

The First Five March 20, 2014. Agenda Message: Attend the High School Registration Expo from 6-8 P.M. Today’s CRCT Warm-up Question: Which office maintains the state’s official records and supervises elections? Secretary of State Board of Transportation

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The First Five March 20, 2014

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  1. The First FiveMarch 20, 2014 Agenda Message: Attend the High School Registration Expo from 6-8 P.M. Today’s CRCT Warm-up Question: Which office maintains the state’s official records and supervises elections? • Secretary of State • Board of Transportation • Department of Community Affairs • Department of Administrative Services

  2. Unit 9: The New Deal in the South Georgia Performance Standard SS8H8: c. Discuss the impact of the political career of Eugene Talmadge d. Discuss the effect of the New Deal in terms of impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Rural Electrification, and Social Security.

  3. Causes of the Great Depression • Boll weevil - Insect which ate Georgia’s most important cash crop, Cotton. • Drought – A time period with little or no rainfall. A major drought hit Georgia in 1924. • Many people had began to invest in the Stock Market. “Speculation” in the stock market was when a person would pay only a portion of the price of a stock hoping that the value will go up. • “Black Tuesday” – October 29, 1929: Stock market prices fall greatly; millions of people loose all their wealth

  4. Causes of the Great Depression Video BrainPop – Causes of the Great Depression BrainPop – Great Depression

  5. New Deal • President Franklin Roosevelt’s plan for getting America out of the Great Depression was the New Deal. • 1st strategy: FDR declared a bank holiday & ordered all banks to temporarily close. When a bank could prove that it had enough money to operate, the federal government allowed it to reopen.

  6. New Deal • In the 1st100 days of FDR’s presidency, he accomplished the 3R’s: • Relief for the jobless & homeless. • Recovery for agriculture & industry. • Reforms to change how the economy worked.

  7. New Deal Programs in Georgia

  8. Eugene Talmadge • Lived from 1884-1946. • Elected Governor of GA in 1932 and 1934. • Outspoken critic of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal programs in Georgia. • Talmadge re-elected in 1940 • Began to use some New Deal programs • Used his power as governor to remove state officials working to integrate Georgia’s state colleges • Elected to a fourth term as Governor in 1946 but died before taking office.

  9. New Deal Political Cartoon & Video BrainPop – New Deal

  10. 3-2-1 Review • Name and explain 3 causes of the Great Depression. • Name and explain 2of the New Deal Programs that were used in Georgia. • Namethe 1 president who created many programs to help with the Great Depression andname the programs.

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