Georgia

1. Georgia State Presentation Brittany Ferguson

2. Georgia • The largest of the U.S. states east of the Mississippi River and the youngest of the 13 former English colonies, Georgia was founded in 1732, at which time its boundaries were even larger—including much of the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi. By the mid-19th century, Georgia had the greatest number of plantations of any state in the South, and in many respects epitomized plantation culture and economic dependence on slavery. In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman invaded Georgia, captured Atlanta and began his infamous March to the Sea, cutting a 200-mile-wide swath of fire and destruction reaching all the way to Savannah. Georgia's landscape varies greatly as it sweeps from the Appalachian Mountains in the north to the marshes of the Atlantic coast on the southeast to the Okefenokee Swamp on the south. Georgia is the country's number-one producer of peanuts, pecans and peaches and vidalia onions, known as the sweetest onions in the world, can only been grown in the fields around Vidalia and Glennville. Another sweet treat from the Peach State is Coca-Cola, which was invented in Atlanta in 1886.

3. GeorgiaFacts • The largest state in the southeast, Georgia is typical of the changing South with an ever-increasing industrial development. Atlanta, largest city in the state, is the communications and transportation center for the Southeast and the area's chief distributor of goods. • Georgia leads the nation in the production of paper and board, tufted textile products, and processed chicken. Other major manufactured products are transportation equipment, food products, apparel, and chemicals.PICTURES:http://www.history.com/topics/georgia/photos#georgia • Important agricultural products are corn, cotton, tobacco, soybeans, eggs, and peaches. Georgia produces twice as many peanuts as the next leading state. From its vast stands of pine come more than half of the world's resins and turpentine and 74.4 percent of the U.S. supply. Georgia is a leader in the production of marble, kaolin, barite, and bauxite. • Principal tourist attractions in Georgia include the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Andersonville Prison Park and National Cemetery, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, the Little White House at Warm Springs where Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945, Sea Island, the enormous Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, and Cumberland Island National Seashore. • (My personal favorite are the Paula Dean Restaurant, Tybee Island, & Savannah.)

4. Georgiafacts • Capital:Atlanta • State abbreviation/Postal code: Ga./GA • Governor: Nathan Deal, R (to Jan. 2015) • Entered Union (rank): Jan. 2, 1788 (4) • Present constitution adopted: 1983 • Motto: Wisdom, justice, and moderation • Nicknames: Peach State, Empire State of the South • Origin of name: In honor of George II of England

5. Georgiafacts • State symbols: -flower Cherokee rose (1916) -tree live oak (1937) -bird brown thrasher (1935) -song “Georgia on My Mind” (1922)

6. Georgiafacts Number of counties: 159 10 largest cities: Atlanta, Augusta-Richmond County, Columbus, Savannah, Athens-Clarke County, Sandy Springs, Macon, Roswell, Albany, Johns Creek

7. Georgiaduring the War • http://www.history.com/topics/georgia/videos#america-divided • Civil War: On January 18, 1861 Georgia seceded from the Union, keeping the name "State of Georgia" and joining the newly formed Confederacy in February. • The first major battle in Georgia was a Confederate victory at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863—it was the last major Confederate victory in the west. In 1864, William T. Sherman's armies invaded Georgia as part of the Atlanta Campaign. Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston fought a series of delaying battles, the largest being the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, as he tried to delay as long as possible by retreating toward Atlanta. Johnston's replacement, Gen. John Bell Hood attempted several unsuccessful counterattacks at the Battle of Peachtree Creek and the Battle of Atlanta, but Sherman captured the city on September 2, 1864. After the loss of Atlanta, Governor Brown withdrew the state's militia from the Confederate forces to harvest crops for the state and the army • “Home of the Confederacy”

8. War hits home in GA • Sherman's March After burning Atlanta to the ground, Sherman embarked on his March to the Sea on November 15, en route to Milledgeville, the state capital, which he reached on November 23, and the port city of Savannah, which he entered on December 22. His army destroyed a swath of land about 60 miles (97 km) across in this campaign, less than 10% of the state. Once Sherman's army passed through, the Confederates regained control. The March is a major part of the state's folk history. The crisis was the setting for Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and the subsequent 1939 film. One of the last land battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Columbus, Georgia, was fought on the Georgia-Alabama border. • The memory of Sherman's March became iconic and central to the "Myth of the Lost Cause." Most important were many "salvation stories" that tell not what Yankee soldiers destroyed, but what was saved by the quick thinking and crafty women on the home front, or perhaps was saved by a Northerners' appreciation of the beauty of homes and the charm of Southern women. • Hardships, Food shortages became increasingly severe during the war, especially in urban areas. Poor women took matters in their own hands in more than two dozen episodes across the state when they raided stores and captured supply wagons to get such necessities as bacon, corn, flour, and cotton yarn. • American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction. • Director: Victor Fleming, and 2 more credits » • Writers: Margaret Mitchell (novel), Sidney Howard (screenplay), and 4 more credits » • Stars:Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and Thomas Mitchell

9. Present day GA • Currently (after recovering form the war) Georgia remains on top in industrial and economical balance. • Some of the best high schools, colleges are located here. • Much of agricultural products are still produced here. • In bigger cities, industry and jobs are still booming. Companies are progressing since most recent ressesion.

10. In Summary • Georgia is a leader in agricultural products • Home of confederacy, Wounded in Civil War, Heart of the South

11. Grade 5 Social Studies Standards • Era 5 - Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) • 5.5.01 Understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War. • a. Identify the locations of the southern and northern states. • b. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of northern and southern economic • resources. • c. Identify similar and different northern and southern social and cultural customs. • f. Chart the course of major events throughout the Civil War. • 5.5.02 Understand the plans and policies for Reconstruction and subsequent successes • and failures.. • b. Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction plans. • d. Assess th4 lasting impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

12. Grade 5 Social Studies Standards • Era 6 - The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) • 5.5.03 Understand the development of Industrial America. • a. Analyze the effects of immigration, migration, and resources on the economic • development and growth of the United States. • b. Identify individual leaders of business and industry. • c. Explain how industry and mechanization changed ways of life in America and • Tennessee. • d. Understand the rise of the American labor movement.

13. Resources http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108201.html Georgia: History, Geography, Population, and State Facts — Infoplease.comhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108201.html#ixzz1fDCXNSsI http://www.history.com/topics/georgia/videos#america-divided