Elaborated Unit Focus: This unit will analyze those factors that caused Georgia and the Southeast to develop as a distinct economic and political region before and after the Civil War.
Conflict and Change: The student will understand that when there is conflict
between or within societies, change is the result.
§ What key events contributed to deepening unrest and hostility in antebellum America?
§ What key events were significant to the Civil War?
§ How did Reconstruction efforts and policies impact Georgia and other southern states?
Production, Distribution, Consumption: The student will understand that the production, distribution, and consumption of goods/services produced by the society are affected by the location, customs, beliefs, and laws of the society.
§ How did the South’s economy change following the Civil War?
§ How do sharecropping and tenant farming differ?
§ How did the Union strategies during the Civil War impact the economy of the South and its ability to obtain resources?
Individuals, Groups, Institutions: The student will understand that the actions of individuals, groups, and/or institutions affect society through intended and unintended consequences.
§ How did the KKK intimidate people in the South?
§ How did the Republicans and the Freedmen’s Bureau affect African Americans?
§ How did resentment after the Civil War affect society?
§ How did the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution affect all Americans, particularly African Americans?
