UNIT 1 Our Special State
Chapter 1 Where in the World is Georgia?
Section 1 What is Geography?
Section 2 Geographic Regions of Georgia
Section 3 Georgia's Climate
Georgia's Seven Wonders
Chapter 2 This Place We Call Home
Section 1 Georgia's Flora and Fauna
Section 2 Georgia's Natural Resources
Section 3 Georgia's Waterways
UNIT 2 From Exploration Through
Independence
Chapter 3 The Land and It's Early People,
10,000 B.C. - 1732 A.D.
Section 1 How Did We Learn About the Earliest People?
Section 2 Indian Nations in Georgia
Chapter 4 Settlement of the Thirteenth Colony,
1477 - 1752
Section 1 An Age of Exploration
Section 2 English Settlement of the New World
Section 3 The Colonization of Georgia
Section 4 Building a New Home
Chapter 5 From Royalty to Independence, 1752 -
1783
Section 1 The Colonial Period
Section 2 Georgia Becomes a Royal Colony
Section 3 The Call for Independence
Section 4 The Revolutionary War Period
UNIT 3 Testing a Nation
Chapter 6 An Age of Expansion, 1783 - 1838
Section 1 Creating a New Government
Section 2 Land Fever in Georgia
Section 3 Economic Growth in Georgia
Section 4 Georgia at the Dawn of a New Century
Section 5 The War of 1812
Section 6 Native Americans in Georgia
Chapter 7 The Antebellum Era, 1838 -1860
Section 1 Manifest Destiny
Section 2 Deepening Divisions
Section 3 Slavery as a Way of Life
Section 4 Antebellum Georgia
Section 5 The Election of 1860
Chapter 8 A Nation in Conflict, 1860 - 1865
Section 1 The Road to War
Section 2 The War on the Battlefield
Section 3 Life for the Civil War Soldier
Section 4 Life During the Civil War
UNIT 4 A New Spirit
Chapter 9 Reconstruction and the New South,
1866 -1899
Section 1 Lincoln and Construction
Section 2 Reconstruction in Georgia
Section 3 Georgia's Redemption Years
Section 4 The New South
Chapter 10 The Progressive Era, 1889 - 1919
Section 1 The Progressive Movement
Section 2 Southern Politics in Action
Section 3 The Continuing Fight for Civil Rights
Section 4 Business in Georgia
Section 5 World War I
Chapter 11 Flappers, Depression, and Global
War, 1920 - 1945
Section 1 The Roaring Twenties
Section 2 The Great Depression
Section 3 The New Deal
Section 4 World War II
UNIT 5 Georgia in the Modern
World
Chapter 12 Baby Boomers, Rebellion, and Wars,
1946 - 1979
Section 1 The Postwar Period
Section 2 Georgia After World War II
Section 3 The Civil Rights Movement
Section 4 A Period of Protest and Changes
Chapter 13 Peace, Prosperity, and Peril, 1980-
2005
Section 1 The 1980's
Section 2 The 1990's
Section 3 Terrorism at Home and Abroad
Section 4 Georgia in a New Century
UNIT 6 Making It All Work
Chapter 14 With Liberty and Justice - The
Federal Government
Section 1 Toward a New Constitution
Section 2 The Legislative Branch of Government
Section 3 The Executive Branch of Government
Section 4 The Judicial Branch of Government
Chapter 15 Government of the Empire State
Section 1 The Executive Branch of State Government
Section 2 The Legislative Branch of State Government
Section 3 The Judicial Branch of State Government
Section 4 Young People and the Law
Georgia's State Symbols
Chapter 16 Local Government and Citizenship
Section 1 County Government
Section 2 City Government
Section 3 Where Do Georgia's Citizens Live?
Section 4 Participation in a Representative Democracy
Appendix I Georgia Vital
Statistics
Appendix II Georgia Counties
Appendix III Georgia Governors
Appendix IV Georgia Colleges and Universities
Appendix V Georgia Atlas
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
