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georgias contributions to world war 1
By: Yaritza Hernandez & Stephanie Mejia
Camp Benning
Helps train soldiers
Fort McPhearson
Fort McPherson was a U.S. Army military base in East Point, Georgia. It was the headquarters for many command centers. For example U.S Army Reserve Command.
Named after Major General James Birdseye McPherson
Camp Gordon
Camp Hancock
Economic Contributions
As a result, Georgia's cotton economy peaked on the eve of World War 1. Georgia produced a record 2.8 million bales on 4.9 million acres in 1911. The boll weevil arrived four years later. The weevil, cotton's greatest enemy, not only cut production levels in half in many areas but also increased the mass migration of white and black tenant farmers from rural Georgia that had begun during World War I. The insect reduced the state's cotton yields an average of 29 percent from 1918 to 1924.
War's outbreak was the rise in female unemployment, especially among the servants, whose jobs were lost to the middle-classes' wish to economise
However, it was soon seen that the only option to replace the volunteers gone to the front was employing women in the jobs they had left behind.
However, their entrance into the workforce was initially greeted with hostility for the usual sexist reasons and also because male workers worried that women's willingness to work for lower wages would put them out of work.
1. Where is Camp Benning located?
1. Camp Benning is located in Columbus ,Georgia.
2. What were the camps used for?
2. They were used for training soldiers and prison camps.
3. When was Camp Gordon established?
3. Camp Gordon was established in 1917.
4. It destroyed, because the death of Mary Phagan,
who was a young girl working in a factory
really isnt a good thing ,and sexual harasment isnt either.
5. Where was Camp Hancock located?
5. Augusta, Georgia.
1. Did the factories coming to georgia help or destroy?
late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, there was no more important single factor in Georgia's agricultural economy than cotton.
Located in Columbus, Georgia
Questions
Camp Benning
Georgia's Contributions to World War 1
Fort Gordon is formerly known as Camp Gordon.
It was established in 1917.
Trains soldiers
Located in Richmond, Jefferson, McDuffie, and Columbia counties, Georgia.
factory