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Events After World War I and their Impact on Georgia

Events After World War I and their Impact on Georgia. Day 2. Learning Targets. I can analyze the important events that occurred after World War I and their impact on Georgia. --I can describe the impact of the boll weevil and drought on Georgia.

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Events After World War I and their Impact on Georgia

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  1. Events After World War I and their Impact on Georgia Day 2

  2. Learning Targets • I can analyze the important events that occurred after World War I and their impact on Georgia. --I can describe the impact of the boll weevil and drought on Georgia. --I can explain economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression. --I can discuss the impact of the career of Eugene Talmadge. --I can discuss the effect of the New Deal in terms of the impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, rural electrification, and Social Security.

  3. The Great Depression • 1929 is most remembered as the “boom that went bust!” • People thought that the good times of the Roaring Twenties would last forever... • The Great Depression did not effect Georgia as much as other areas...because Georgia was already in an extremely poor state.

  4. Image of Poor Georgians “I could not become accustomed to the sight of children’s stomachs bloated from hunger and seeing the ill and aged too weak to walk to the fields to search for something to eat. In the evenings, I wrote about what I had seen during the day, but nothing I put down on paper succeeded in conveying the full meaning of poverty and hopelessness and degradation as I had observed it.” --Erskine Caldwell Excerpt from Tobacco Road

  5. Herbert Hoover President Herbert Hoover was inaugurated.

  6. Stock Market Crashed • Place where shares of ownership in corporations (stock) are bought and sold. • BLACK TUESDAY – On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market “crashed”. • By the end of the day, millions of Americans had lost everything.

  7. Causes of the Depression

  8. Living Through the Depression

  9. Some Bright Spots • Plane service from Atlanta to New York • Completion of highway from Atlanta to Brunswick • Georgians could travel to most of the state’s cities using roads and bridges. 170 Miles = Paved Roads 673 Miles = Sand and Clay Roads 34 Miles = Graded Dirt Roads 28 Bridges

  10. Georgia Athletes • Ty Cobb – Major League Baseball Player • Theo (Tiger) Flowers – African American World Middleweight Boxing Champion • Bobby Jones – world class amateur golfer announced his intentions to build a golf course in Augusta

  11. Federal & State Government Help • President Herbert Hoover was the first president to use the power of the federal government to help the economy recover.

  12. Local Agencies Help • Red Cross and Salvation Army help. • Hospitals provided free lunch for the needy. • Local governments provided free lunch for needy children and paid men low wages to sweep streets, plant trees, drain swamps, cut firewood, and plant gardens. • Unfortunately, these were not enough...

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