This assignment should be printed and brought to class on Monday, 9/22/08.
Notes sheets presented in class receive a 100 daily grade for the day.

SS8H5 The student will explain significant factors that affected the development ofGeorgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.

a. Explain the establishment of the University of Georgia, Louisville, and the spread of Baptist and Methodist churches.

University of Ga
• Was formerly known as ________________________________
• Started in ____________ with a land grant given by the Federal Gov’t to establish a college
• First Classes started in _______________
• Was all _______________and all ____________________
• Main job was to oversee all ________________________________________in GA
• It is the _________________ Public University of its kind

Louisville
• Became capital of Ga in ________________
• Is located between ____________________and _________________BUT further ___________
• The movement toward the west reflected the changing _____________________of Ga that was spreading out from the coast and Savannah River and following the______________________.

Religion
• After the Revolution many _______________(Anglican Religion) left and went back to England
• Their leaving left the opportunity for other Protestant Religions such as ____________________ and __________________________.
• ___________________________________came to GA to “save” the Indians and started the first “____________________________.” These schools/classes taught people to _____________ and _____________ using the Bible as a textbook. He founded the _____________________Religion after returning to England.
• In all Communities religious worship was a form of_________________, ________________, and ____________________ interaction. It was a time for families to get together and take a break from the routine of work and struggle.


b. Evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo land fraud

Land Development
• Before, during, and after the Revolution Ga encouraged _______________to move into her_____________.
• Ga wanted people in the ________________________to improve its claim to the land.
• As people moved in, there was ________________________between competing _____________ and between the settlers and the__________________________.


Georgia Growth
• Between 1790 and 1840, the _______________________of Ga. ___________________(4 times)
• Population of the United States grew from 4 mil to 17 mil
• People came to Ga for ____________________________________.
• People followed the wagon trails and settled mainly in the _______________________
• First _________________________of the nation was taken in 1790

Georgia’s public land was distributed in three different ways
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Headright System
• Head of a family got _________________________of land for himself plus ________________ for each member of his family (1,000 acre limit)
• __________________________of the Revolutionary War could get more land based on their rank
• The people settled on the _______________________land available to them which resulted in odd shaped____________________________________.


Land Speculation
• _____________________________– illegal land deal where People bribed the Ga congressmen to sale them Ga’s western land for cut rate prices BEFORE the Public had a chance to get the land
• To settle the dispute, Georgia gave up claim to __________________land (it would later become ______________________and_______________________) to the U.S. gov’t
• Georgia’s western boundary became the ____________________________River

Land Lottery
• For a _____________people could buy a ______________and enter into a drawing for land
• Had to be________________, ________________ and over the age of ______ to purchase ticket
• ______________of Households, __________________, and ___________________were given “extra” chances to win

Assessment of Land Policy
• The Good Side
– Opened Ga land to _________________________
– _____________________Ga ______________________to land
– Gave opportunity to ______________land to people who could not afford to buy land


• The Bad Side
– Allowed for ________________________
– Allowed for ________________________
– _____________________the _______________________that lived there

c. Explain how technological developments, including the cotton gin and railroads, had an impact on Georgia’s growth.

New Technology Leads to Georgia Growth and Expansion
• There were Two main technological developments that helped Ga grow rapidly
– _________________________
– _________________________

Cotton Gin
• Invented by _______________________in __________________
• The Gin separated the ________________________from the _________________________ (which required long hours to do by hand).
• It allowed Ga to plant more _______________________since now they had a way to remove the seeds from the cotton quickly.
• It allowed Cotton to become the “__________________” crop grown in Ga

• Positive effects-
– _____________________________________
– Helped lead to the ______________________________of Ga Land and the establishment of major ______________________
• Negative effects
– Encouraged Large ________________________with increased _______________________
– Displaced more _____________________________and pushed them off their land

Railroads
• First roads were ___________________
• _______________________were built to get to the rivers better and began to link towns to others with no river systems.
• _______________________came last and offered reliable transportation for people and goods to cities and markets. They connected __________________________with River and Seaport CitiesRailroads led to the creation of towns such as “___________________” better known today as “__________________”