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Essential Question: How did the railroads facilitate Land Lottery and Manifest Destiny explosion in Georgia?

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Coach Book Lesson:9, page 75, 78,79 Text Book: 177-178, 181-182

Reading Comprehension Questions (8 min): Read page 75 in your Coach Book and answer the following questions.

1)After the disaster of the ______, Georgia was forced to create a more equitable method of determining who could buy western lands.

2)The ______was developed to take in to account a persons age, war service, and years residence in Georgia to determine who was eligible for the lottery.

3)This land lottery provided land to ______(#) families in Georgia for a average of seven cents per acre.

4)As more ordinary people gained large areas of land, these average Georgians soon gained more and more ______power and influence.

5)These lands that were distributed to Georgia citizens were former ______and Cherokee Indian lands.

6)Between the War of ______and the YazooLand fraud, Creek and Cherokee Indians were effectively eliminated from Georgia.

7)These early farmers focused on tobacco until the invention of the ______which made cotton the “King” inGeorgia (and made slaves a valuable commodity).

Let’s take a look at how the industrial revolution changed the relationship between the northern and the southern states.

  1. What migration occurred as northern cities became industrialized?
  2. Besides having the industrial centers developing in the north, what advantage did the north have regarding transportation?
  3. What financial advantages did the north also have over the south?
  4. What cash crops were grown in the south?
  5. Describe the economic relationship between the south’s cash crops and the north’s industrialization.

Map Activity (5 min): Let’s check out this map I’ve projected and see what lands were actually being distributed at this time.

  1. First, describe OconeeCounty at this time.
  2. What other places near Oconee are you familiar with?
  3. Describe Atlanta at this time.
  4. What places near Atlanta do you reorganize on this map?
  5. Describe the Cherokee land at this time.
  6. Why would whites want this Cherokee land?

Graphic Organizer (10 min): Let’s prepare to organize the important information regarding this conflict on the graphic organizer below. Check out page 189-191 and fill in your graphic organizer.

Causes of the War of 1812 Major event of the War of 1812 Effects of the War of 1812

Reading Comprehension Questions (8 min): Read page 79 in your Coach Book and answer the following questions.

8)Between 1789 and 1840, the United States expanded it border through the ______purchase and the relocation of Native Americans to the west.

9)The Louisiana Purchase alone opened land that would become ______(#) modern states and parts of Canada.

10)As this land opened up, ______and ______were the means by which people and goods were transported to and from these areas back to the east.

11)People in Georgia began by using ______systems as the primary means of transportation.

12)In the North, rivers were connected by ______that created an interconnected water highway into these new lands.

13)In Georgia, the state government made the decision against the use of canals and chooses ______instead.

Graphic Organizer (10 min):Let’s write ten bulleted facts around the graphic regarding railroads and trains in Georgia. Focus on how transportation evolves from muddy roads to railroads.

Interactive Map (5min):Let’s take a look at an interactive railroad map of Georgia and see what rail lines developed during the Antebellum period.

  1. What is the title of this interactive map?
  2. What do you notice that the note at the bottom tells the map reader?
  3. What is the railroad that passes through Watkinsville?
  4. Describe this rail line in its historic context. Is this really an antebellum railroad?

Just south of Watkinsville is the Georgia Railroad. Take a closer look at that line and describe its historic context.

Extending and Refining (5 min): Let’s take a closer look on how trains and railroads work together in our past and in lives today.

An Introduction to Transportation by Railroad / How Railroads Affect Our Lives / The Growth of Railroads / How Railroads Affect Cultural Change
How Do Railroads Work? / How Railroads Affect the Places They Go