Warm UpAnswer the TWO questions in a complete sentence on your WARM UP SHEET.

1. What are the differences between the land lottery and the headright system?

2. What was the Yazoo Land fraud and how did it change Georgia’s boundaries?

Agenda: -TechnologyChoice Project

Class Instructions:1. Managers get folder.

21st

Want to earn candy? Pick a chore, see Mrs. Berry and she will give instructions.

• Clean desks• Clean buckets• Clean white board• Wipe shelves, file cabinet, Ms. B’s desk, and

table. • Pass out papers from the drawer• Organize Papers

Technology

Does it help or hurt?

Consider the Following Text Messaging: fast and efficient method

of communication at your finger tips.

Intended Consequences• Eliminates long phone

conversations• Allows you to message

quickly and instantly

Unintended Consequence• Loss of human interaction • Contributes to the inability

to spell and communicate effectively (SMH, LOL, BTW, BRB)

• 1,000s of vehicular deaths yearly.

Economic Growth In Georgia

Cotton Gin

Description • Tobacco was destroying the soil, so

the state was looking for ways to make growing cotton profitable.

• Eli Whitney invented this tool • Cotton was previously deseeded

by hand at the rate of about ONE pound per day

How it worked…

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Cotton Gin

Intended Consequences• Was able to remove the

seeds from 50 pounds of cotton each day

• The south grew a majority of the world’s cotton by the end of the 19th century

Unintended Consequences• Led to Westward Expansion Negatives: • The south became

dependent on one crop• Increased slavery

Railroads• Created as a better way to

transport cotton • 1832 Georgia’s first railroad

was chartered• Georgia was ranked in the

top ten for railroad track mileage.

• Developed partially from the concept of the steamboat

• Built to be pulled by steam engines or horse.

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Railroads

Intentional

• Easier Transportation • Solved issues of difficult

transportation on rough roads

Unintentional • Took business from freight

traffic along rivers• The development of cities

not along rivers • Made Atlanta the first major

American city to be built on a location without a navigable river

Mechanical Reaper

• Invented by Cyrus McCormick

• Wooden paddles fasten to the harness of a horse. As the horse was guided through the fields, the paddles turned and cut grain.

• Grain was previously cut by hand with a scythe Video

Mechanical Reaper

Intentional

• Allowed farmers to cut six times the amount of grain

Unintentional • An industry emerged devoted to

making agricultural production more efficient.

• Became an international sensation • Impacted the Civil War by

releasing 5 men for service per reaper.

• Increased competition lead to more development of agricultural machinery.