Exploring Georgia
by the Notgrass Family

Table of Contents

Part I: Georgia Today

Unit 1--The People and Symbols of Georgia 3
Lesson 1--What Is Georgia? 3
Lesson 2--The People of Georgia 5
Lesson 3--Meet Four Georgia Families 8
Lesson 4--Symbols of Georgia (Part 1) 11
Lesson 5--Symbols of Georgia (Part 2) 13

Unit 2--Living and Working in Georgia 15
Lesson 6--Location, Size, and Weather 15
Lesson 7--The Land and Waters of Georgia 18
Lesson 8--Wealth from the Land and Waters 20
Lesson 9--Manufacturing, Mining, and the Military 23
Lesson 10--The Service Industries of Georgia 25

Unit 3--The Culture of Georgia 29
Lesson 11--Education in Georgia 29
Lesson 12--Georgia Music 32
Lesson 13--Sports in Georgia 35
Lesson 14--Appalachian Georgia 39
Lesson 15--Habitat for Humanity 42

Part II: The Story of Georgia

Unit 4--The First Georgians 47
Lesson 16--People Movements 47
Lesson 17--The Cherokee (Part 1) 50
Lesson 18--The Cherokee (Part 2) 52
Lesson 19--The Creek 54
Lesson 20--Spanish Explorers 56

Unit 5--From Colony to Statehood 59
Lesson 21--Oglethorpe's Vision 59
Lesson 22--Life in the Georgia Colony 61
Lesson 23--Georgia in the American Revolution 64
Lesson 24--New State, New Nation 68
Lesson 25--An Amazing Invention 71

Unit 6--Georgia and The Cherokee 73
Lesson 26--Changes for the Cherokee 73
Lesson 27--What No Other Individual Has Ever Done 75
Lesson 28--Troubles with Americans 77
Lesson 29--The Cherokee Lose Their Land 79
Lesson 30--The Place Where They Cried 81

Unit 7--Georgia Before the Civil War 83
Lesson 31--Adversity and Growth 83
Lesson 32--Georgia Scenes 87
Lesson 33--The Role of Slavery 89
Lesson 34--The Southern Position 92
Lesson 35--The Growing Conflict 95

Unit 8--A War Among Brothers 99
Lesson 36--Georgia Leaves the Union 99
Lesson 37--War Breaks Out 102
Lesson 38--Battles, Engines, and Goober Peas 105
Lesson 39--The War Comes to Georgia 108
Lesson 40--Peace at a Terrible Price 111

Unit 9--Reconstruction 115
Lesson 41--A Devastated Land 115
Lesson 42--The Radical Republicans Take Over 117
Lesson 43--The Democrats Fight Back 120
Lesson 44--A New Life for Former Slaves 122
Lesson 45--Georgia Poet Sidney Lanier 125

Unit 10--A Changing State 129
Lesson 46--Henry W. Grady and the New South 129
Lesson 47--Business and Farming in the New South 132
Lesson 48--The Challenge Facing African Americans 135
Lesson 49--The Populist Revolt 138
Lesson 50--Georgia Writers Joel Chandler Harris and Corra Harris 140

Unit 11--Georgia Enters the Twentieth Century 143
Lesson 51--Change and Continuation 143
Lesson 52--Politics in Georgia 145
Lesson 53--Boll Weevils, Peanuts, a Mountain, and a Road 148
Lesson 54--Trials for African Americans 151
Lesson 55--Three Notable Georgia Women 154

Unit 12--Georgia in the 1930s and 1940s 157
Lesson 56--The Great Depression and the New Deal 157
Lesson 57--Opposition to the New Deal 159
Lesson 58--Georgia and World War II 161
Lesson 59--Franklin Roosevelt and Warm Springs 164
Lesson 60--Three Governors At Once 166

Unit 13--Georgia in the 1950s and 1960s 169
Lesson 61--Georgia After World War II 169
Lesson 62--The Civil Rights Movement Begins 171
Lesson 63--The Rise of Martin Luther King Jr. 173
Lesson 64--The Dream 176
Lesson 65--The Struggle Continues 179

Unit 14--Modern Georgia 181
Lesson 66--Jimmy Carter (Part 1) 181
Lesson 67--Jimmy Carter (Part 2) 183
Lesson 68--Recent Events 185
Lesson 69--Recent Prominent Georgians 188
Lesson 70--The 2002 Election 191

Part III--State Government and Your Georgia Story

Unit 15--Georgia Today and Tomorrow 197
Lesson 71--The Power of a Free People Under God 197
Lesson 72--Working for Your Good and Protection 200
Lesson 73--Government and You 204
Lesson 74--Exploring Georgia On Your Own 205
Lesson 75--Your Georgia History 206

Index 207

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