8th Grade Georgia History New South to WWI Content Map
Unit Essential Question: How did the key political, social, and economic
changes that occurred during the New South Period affect Georgia?
Concept 1: Political, Economic,
and Social Success
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did Georgia begin to
recover during the New South
Period? (8H7a, 8H7b, 8H7c)
Vocabulary 1:
Essential*
Populist Party
Henry Grady
Bourbon Triumvirate Tom Watson
Rebecca Latimer Felton
International Cotton Exposition
Supplemental**
Joseph E. Brown
Railroad
Alfred H. Colquitt
“New South”
John B. Gordon
“People’s Party”
Atlanta Journal
Progressive
Industrialization
Investment
Diversification
Farmers Alliance
Women’s Suffrage
Convict Lease System
Independent Democrats
Rural Free Delivery Act
Cotton States and International
Exposition
Coca-Cola and Royal Crown Cola
(established during this period)
Concept 2: Injustice
Lesson Essential Questions:
2. How was Georgia troubled by
injustice during the New South
Period? (8H7a, 8H7b)
Vocabulary 2:
Essential*
Leo Frank
Jim Crow Laws
1906 Atlanta Riot
Racial Violence
Plessy v. Ferguson
County Unit System
Disenfranchisement
Tom Watson (Stance later in life)
Supplemental**
Mary Phagan
Rural
Clarke Howell
Urban
Jim Conley
Lynching
William Smith
Martial Law
Alonzo Mann
Hoke Smith
John M. Slaton
White Primary
New Democrats
Mining Industry
White Supremacists
Knights of Mary Phagan
Standard(s): SS8H7a, SS8H7b, SS8H7c, SS8H7d;
SS8E1; SS8E2a
Concept 3: Influential African
Americans
Lesson Essential Questions:
3. How were African Americans
influential during the New South
Period? (8H7c)
Vocabulary 3:
Essential*
Alonzo Herndon
W. E. B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
John and Lugenia Burns Hope
Supplemental**
Tuskegee Institution
Activist
Morehouse College
Orator
Up From Slavery
Poll Taxes
“the talented tenth”
NAACP
Niagara Movement
YMCA/YWCA
“Crystal Palace”
Urban League
Neighborhood Union
Literacy Tests
The Grandfather Clause
Atlanta Compromise Speech
Atlanta University (Clarke University)
The Souls of Black Folk
National Youth Administration
Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company
Concept 4: World War I
Lesson Essential Question:
4. What factors led to the start of
World War I and what were
Georgia’s contributions? (8H7d)
Vocabulary 4:
Essential*
World War I
Supplemental**
Nationalism
Serbia
Colonization
Russia
Militarism
France
Alliance System
England
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Ottoman Empire
Mexico
Fort McPherson
Ally
Camp Gordon
War Bonds
Camp Benning
Territories
Camp Stewart
Lusitania
Non-Combatants
Victory Gardens
Zimmerman Telegram
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
*Essential Vocabulary are listed directly in the state standards. Essential Vocabulary should be included in the Word Wall and are assessable
**Supplemental Vocabulary are NOT listed directly in the state standards, but are listed in the state frameworks or other state document. DO
NOT test them in isolation.
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Document last changed: 5/29/2015
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