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GA History

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Bible Belt row of churches that interests people in religion. south was considered this from 1790-1830
Revival A meeting meant to interest people in religion. Held by Methodists.
What is a camp meeting ground and what took place there? outdoors and religous meetings took place there, Held by Methodists.
Which groups of people united to form the Georgia Baptist Convention? Primitive Baptist and Free will Baptist
What is a difference between a Primitive Baptist and a Free-Will Baptist? primitive- don't like missionary work or sunday school. Free Will liked missions and Sunday School.
Why was it imporant for Baptist and Free-Will Baptists to unite? They needed to build up their religion as christianity and methodists were growing much stronger than the Baptist religion.
The largest religous group in the state in 1789 was? Episcopalians
Episcopailians were formerly known as? Anglicans
The Anglicans then changed their name to? third protestant episropah church and are now known as Episcopalians.
What was ine of the first things GA did after the Revolutionary war? They opened up a new university called the University of Georgia.
Who wrote the plan for the university? Abraham Baldwin
Why did this person want a public university? He wanted everyone to get an education, not just the extremely wealthy people.
What was the national significance of UGA? First PUBLIC educational institution in the U.S.A.
After the revolutionary war, where did the people of GA move? Most moved to Northern GA.
Who requested a change in the location of the state capital and why? A commision, including William Few Jr. They picked it because it was west of Savannah and it was more accessible than Savannah to the other towns.
What were the first two major cash crops of Louisville? Tobacco and then cotton
Louisvile was only the capital for a short time, why and where was the new capital located? There were problems with malaria and trade fell well below expectaions, so they moved it to Milledgeville in 1807.
Which land policy granted land to families? Headright System- Families get a certain amount of land; Head of family was responsible for it.
How much land could you get? 200-1000 acres in the land lottery. More land meant more power.
Who came to GA for the land? What did they do with the land they received? ranchers and farmers came because they needed more grazing land for livestock
Who got land under this system immediately after the Rev. War? Rev. War veterans got most of the land in the land lottery.
How much did the govt. want to sell the 35 million acres of land for? They wanted to sell it for 500,000 dollars to four companies.
Who would get the land? What could they do with it? The companies would get the land for a ridiculously cheap price and resell it ridiculously high!
Where was the land located? Located in Western part of GA
Which GA governor approved the Yazoo land sale? George Matthews in 1775.
Why were GA residents upset about the Yazoo Land Fraud? The plan backfired. The companies were bribing the governors with land, casuing people to protest.
What is the significance of James Jackson in the Yazoo Land Fraud? He resigned from the senate when he learned about the fraud. He later came back to try and reverse the sale.
What is the Rescinding Act? The reverse of the Yazoo land act, it also helped make the fraud much weaker.
Why did the federal government get involved? The government was weaker from the Rev. War. and decided to sell 35 million acres to bolster the govt. funds. They also did this in order to attract people to settle on land to the west to further expand civilization in GA.
After the Yazoo Land Fraud they came up with a new system.... It was called a land lottery.
How much did they have to pay for the land? seven cents per acre.
Who was eligible for the land lottery? A person's age, war service, marital strains and years of residency in GA. You also have to be a white male.
How many families and individuals benefited from the land lottery? 100,000
How much did they have to pay for the land? They had to pay seven cents per acre.
After the invention of the cotton gin what happened to the land? The plantations grew bigger and more land could be used for better production of crops.
What was the effect on the population of Georgia due to the invention of the cotton gin? Population boomed as many more slaves were needed to help grow the added amount of crops. Due to the production in cotton gin, it brought in more slaves to the state of Georgia.
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