Georgia Studies Weekly Projects

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Georgia Studies Weekly Projects
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Week 3 Advertising the New Georgia Colony

• Choose one of Oglethorpes reasons for settlement
  (in your notes)
• Create an advertisement poster using that reason
  to get settlers to move to the new colony
• Advertisements should have a slogan, picture,
  several short phrases, and contact information
• Due tomorrow (Friday)

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Week 4 Colonial Comic Strip

• Create a detailed comic strip depicting the
  colonization of Georgia
• Use your Exploration and Colonization of
  Georgia and Georgia as a Royal Colony notes
• Need at least 4 boxes
• Make sure your comic strip goes in chronological
  order!
• You may choose any of the events to illustrate
• Due Thursday at end of class

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Week 5 Revolution Biography Movie Posters

• Create a movie poster about one of the people we
  talked about who were important to the American
  Revolution in Georgia
• Nancy Hart
• Austin Dabney
• Elijah Clarke
• Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
• Abraham Baldwin and William Few
• Each poster should have a title, a drawing of
  your person (or what they did), and a short
  phrase describing that person or their actions
• These are due Thursday!

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Week 6 Causes of the American Revolution Timeline

• These will be completed in class, due tomorrow
  (Thursday)
• Your timeline should include all the dates
  discussed in the Causes of the American
  Revolution PowerPoint notes.
• Be sure to give your timeline and include a
  title.

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Week 7 Post-Revolution Flipbook

• Title of flip book
• Government in Georgia
• Georgias Capital/Louisville
• Education/The University of Georgia
• Religion/Baptist and Methodist Churches
• Headright System
• Land Lotteries
• Yazoo Land Fraud (all information)
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• 4. For each of the above, use your notes to
  write information in your flipbook.
• 5. Draw a picture that corresponds to the person
  or event.

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Week 8 Native American Removal Illustrated
Timeline

• These will be completed in class, due tomorrow
  (Thursday)
• Your timeline should include all the dates on the
  list
• Illustrate each date

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1790- Creek Chief Alexander McGillivray meets
with President Washington to discuss how to end
the Oconee War. He eventually signs the Treaty
of New York to end the war. 1809- Sequoyah
begins developing the Cherokee syllabary 1825-
Creek Chief William McIntosh signs the Treaty of
Indian Springs which gave up the rest of Creek
land to the U.S. He is later executed by the
Creek for his actions. 1828- The first issue of
the Cherokee Phoenix is published 1829- Gold is
discovered in Dahlonega 1830- The Indian Removal
Act is passed by the U.S. Congress and signed
into law by President Andrew Jackson 1831-
Worcester v. Georgia is decided by Chief Justice
John Marshall which said that Cherokee territory
is not subject to state law 1832- The Creek
signed the Treaty of Washington which gave the
Creek the choice to stay on their reserved land
or move west. 1832- A land lottery is held to
give away Cherokee land in north Georgia that may
contain gold. 1832 Cherokee Chief John Ross
makes many trips to Washington D.C. to appeal to
the U.S. Congress for help in saving the Cherokee
lands. 1838- Trail of Tears (forced removal of
the Cherokee from Georgia)
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Week 9 Antebellum America Movie Posters

• Pretend that a movie is going to be made about
  Antebellum America.
• Create a movie poster about one of the issues we
  talked about that was instrumental in causing the
  Civil War.
• Each poster should have a title, an illustration
  and a short phrase describing the issue
• These are due Friday!

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Week 13/14?11-4-13Discrimination in the New
South Flipbook

• Title of flip book
• 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
• Jim Crow Laws
• Homer Plessy/Plessy v. Ferguson
• 3 types of Disenfranchisement
• Leo Frank
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• John and Lugenia Burns Hope
• Alonzo Herndon
• For each section, use your notes to write facts
  about the person or event
• Choose 5 to illustrate
• Due Friday.