AKS 38
Great DepressionWWI
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Vocabulary
•Boll weevil
Great Migration
•Great Depression
Laissez-faire
•Subsidies
Integrate
•New Deal
Stock market
•Works Progress Administration (WPA)
•Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
•Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)
•Social Security Administration (SSA)
•Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
•Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
•Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Great Migration
•Great Depression
Laissez-faire
•Subsidies
Integrate
•New Deal
Stock market
•Works Progress Administration (WPA)
•Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
•Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)
•Social Security Administration (SSA)
•Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
•Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
•Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Georgia's Contributions to WWI
AKS 38a
Give reasons for WWI, and describe Georgia' contributions
Give reasons for WWI, and describe Georgia' contributions
81914. European alliances and imperialism. Serbian member of the group Black Hand assassinated Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Serbia declared war on Austria; Serbia's ally Russia followed suit - all European alliances fell in like dominoes.
Central Powers: Germany & Austria-Hungary
Allied Powers: Russia, Great Britain, and France
US position - Isolationism (don't get involved in Europe's war...stay isolated)
1916, after Wilson's reelection, there was a series of German actions (including sinking of the Lusitania in 1915), that caused America to join the war.
Georgia in WWI: When the United States declared war, between 85,000 and 100,000 Georgians joined the armed forces. Soldiers came from other states to be trained at military posts located throughout the state, including Camp Benning, Fort McPherson, and Camp Gordon. Georgians contributed to the war effort in other ways. Textile mills made fabric for military uniforms. Railroads carried arms, ammunition, and soldiers to ports where ships waited to sail for Europe. Farmers grew more food crops, tobacco, and livestock. Many town residents planted "victory gardens" to raise their own vegetables to there would be more food for the military. Women volunteered to work for the Red Cross, to welcome soldiers, to knit, and to help sell bonds. However, Georgia's most important contribution was the three thousand young people from all over the state who died in an effort to "make the world safe for democracy." The war ended 11/11/1918.
AKS 38c
Assess the impact of the boll weevil and drought on Georgia
Central Powers: Germany & Austria-Hungary
Allied Powers: Russia, Great Britain, and France
US position - Isolationism (don't get involved in Europe's war...stay isolated)
1916, after Wilson's reelection, there was a series of German actions (including sinking of the Lusitania in 1915), that caused America to join the war.
Georgia in WWI: When the United States declared war, between 85,000 and 100,000 Georgians joined the armed forces. Soldiers came from other states to be trained at military posts located throughout the state, including Camp Benning, Fort McPherson, and Camp Gordon. Georgians contributed to the war effort in other ways. Textile mills made fabric for military uniforms. Railroads carried arms, ammunition, and soldiers to ports where ships waited to sail for Europe. Farmers grew more food crops, tobacco, and livestock. Many town residents planted "victory gardens" to raise their own vegetables to there would be more food for the military. Women volunteered to work for the Red Cross, to welcome soldiers, to knit, and to help sell bonds. However, Georgia's most important contribution was the three thousand young people from all over the state who died in an effort to "make the world safe for democracy." The war ended 11/11/1918.
AKS 38c
Assess the impact of the boll weevil and drought on Georgia
For many Georgians, the twenties were not a time of abundance. A small, grayish, long-snouted beetle, the boll weevil, was destroying the primary source of income for many Georgian farmers: cotton. The boll weevil had come from Mexico, moved through Texas, and into the southern states in the 1890s. The beetles hatch in the yellow flower of the cotton plant. As the flower becomes a boll (the place where the fibers are formed), the larvae feeds on the growing white, fluffy cotton, making it useless. The boll weevil appeared in southwest Georgia in 1915 and quickly spread across the state, destroying thousands of acres of Georgia's major agricultural crop. By 1923, cotton production had dropped to 600,000 bales from a high of 2.8 million bales in 1914. The postwar price was only fifteen to seventeen cents a pound. In 1924, Georogia's farmers were hit with another natural disaster - a major drought. The sun-baked fields slowed down the destruction of the boll weevil, but the drought ruined most of Georgia's other crops. Over 375,000 farm workers left Georgia between 1920 and 1925. The number of working farms fell from 310,132 to 249,095. When farms failed, banks that had loaned the farmers money took huge losses. Many farm-related businesses closed. Georgia fell into a deep economic depression.
AKS 38C
Examine economic factors that resulted in The Great Depression
Examine economic factors that resulted in The Great Depression
In March 1929, right after President Herbert hoover was inaugurated, the Federal Reserve Board began meeting daily. In March, a series of "mini-crashes" had occurred in the stock market. Thursday, October 24, 1929: Investors tried to sell their stocks at any price. The lunch break seemed to slow things down a bit, and there was even a small rebound that carried over into Friday. Everyone was relieved when the weekend arrived and the market closed. On Monday, it became clear that things were not getting better. Panic set in as people all over the country began trading anew. Unlike the previous week, the trading was not a recover. On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, a day known as "black Tuesday," the stock market crashed. By the end of that day, millions of Americans had lost everything they had. With each day that passed, the country went deeper and deeper into an economic downturn, which today we call the Great Depression. What caused the Great Depression? One cause was that the people of the United States had borrowed more money than they could afford to repay. This hurt the banks that had loaned the money and the businesses waiting for their payments. Businesses that did not get paid had to lay off workers. Many factories had produced more goods than they could sell. When the demand for the goods fell, the businesses had to slow production until the surpluses were gone. Farmers were also guilty of overproduction. For several season, the farmers had produced surplus crops, causing prices to decline steadily. After WWI, European farmers began raising crops again; that added to the worldwide overproduction. The decline in farm income meant farmers could not repay their debts of buy goods from suppliers. After WWI, Americans wanted to trade with other nations, but the United States and other nations had enacted tariffs. The high tariffs made it difficult for other countries to sell their goods in the United States. This made it difficult to get money with which to repay wartime loans and buy American products. Speculation in the stock market also helped cause the Great Depression. Many banks had purchased large amounts of stock. When the market crashed, the banks lost a lot of money. When depositors learned this, there were runs on the banks. When too many people withdraw their money from a bank, the bank collapses; everyone loses. One final cause was the laissez-faire attitude of the American people and the American government and business leaders. Almost every government official believed the economy itself, not the government, would work out any problems.