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Georgia as a Colony
Georgia was not settled by _____ of any sort. Georgia was settle by ____ ____ and _____ |
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| Georgia was not settled by convicts of any sort. Georgia was settled by Spanish missionaries and explorers. |
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| James Oglethorpe; he described GA to be "always serene, pleasant, and temperate, never subject to excessive heat or cole, nor to sudden changes; the winter is regular and short and the summer cool'd with refreshing breezes, Edenic paradise |
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| Charged with overseeing GA settlement and ensuring its growth, the trustees reasoned that because it occupied the same latitude as China, Persia, and the Madeira Islands, the new colony could supply ___ and ____ that England purchased from producers. |
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| There was no shortage of people wanting to go to Georgia, and because those chosen as the colony's initial settlers would receive a host of benefits, including ___ ___, ___ ___ __ ____, and ______ and ______ ___ _ ____. |
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| free passage, 50 acres of land, and supplies and foodstuffs for a year |
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| The first Georgians were highly screened |
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| small businessmen, tradesmen, and unemployed laborers |
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| mulberry trees were not suitable, even when they had the right trees, the cold killed them |
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| yeomen and tradesmen as liquor, Catholics, and lawyers were banned |
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| GA suffered unbalanced trade because its production of goods to export, was too feeble to finance the importation of goods from |
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| Georgia's trustees had warned steadfastly against slavery and single-crop plantation farming, but their moralistic arguments were no match for the avarice and ambition of their critics, especially the prominent members of Savannah's business community |
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| Pro-slavery: George Whitefield (minister) and Thomas Stevens; got there way in 1750 |
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| by 1760 __/__ of Georgia's population were slaves; __/__ by American revolution |
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| became royal governor in 1760; led the Carolina-ization of Georgia; key role in Georgia's physical growth as well as negotiated treaties with nearby Indians that increased land 5x; slaveholder |
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| sturred economic upturn from 1750s to 1760s |
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| derogatory reference to white-usually poor whites--employed primarily by blacks (Scot-Irish decent); Dr. Samuel Jackson "noisy, boasting fellow" |
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| herdsmen who used long whips tapered to a cracker to drive their cattle in the unfenced forests and free ranges of antebellum Georgia and Florida; better economic circumstances |
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| Georgia was the only colony to comply with the ____ ___ and it sent no official delegation to the First Continental Congress |
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| A backcountry patriot of the first order, who at the time of the Revolution lived in the Broad River wilderness of present-day Elbert County with her husband Benjamin Hart |
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| Legend has it that local Indians stood so in awe of _____ that they named a stream near her cabin "___ _____ _____"; made cabin refuge for patriots who sough to harass local Tory populations; When sisx TOries descended upon her cabin and accosted her about this, she geighned submission and appeared to comply with their demands to prepare a meal for them. Daughter blew conch shell for help instead of getting water |
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| Nancy's daughter who helped keep the cabin safe for patriots when six Tories came she blew a conch shell for help |
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| found in six shallow graves December 12, 1912 |
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| the hero of many a backcountry skirmish, rose to prominence in Antebellum |
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| agriculture and commerce suffered from |
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| seven years of armed conflict |
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| was a boon to the ambitious of an upwardly mobile yeomanry; fees minimal, heads of house 200 acres, 10 slaves; many failed to qualify |
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| four land companies bribed legislators to approve their acquisition of 35 million acres; India territories (AL MS); combat scandal lottery system at 7c per acre |
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| opened negotiations that led in 1802 to the ceding of the western lands to the federal gov; AL and MS now own states; Indian claims earsed |
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| War of 1812; 1838 Cherokees removed and march along Trail of Tears to Oklahoma |
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| soldier during Trail of Tears |
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| GA emerged as a social, economic,and political paradox; dependence of slavery |
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| all taxpayers (including women in theory) were entitles to vote |
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| acknowledged federal precedent by calculating a county's representation in the legislature according to 3/5s compromise |
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| a machine that separated cotton fiber from the seeds and thereby, made it feasible to grow hardier varieties of the plant in hithero unsuitable upland areas and in larger quantities than was possible when fiber and seeds had to separated by hand; led world; slaves 44%/pop |
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| William Colbert and January |
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| symbol of slave brutality |
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| Gone with the Wind' Gerald O'hara |
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| seized on the educational deficiencies of the so-called planter aristocracy in antebellum GA; lower class to abscense of common schools |
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| symbol of Antebellum violence |
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| the University of Georgia |
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| rule breaker mayhem maker; state senator; confederate general; states rights |
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| North and South divide; slaves as wealth and status; 5x wealthier than north; ex Joseph Bond |
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| state east of Mississippi |
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| later vp of Confederacy; lincoln |
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| war between blacks and whites; against Lincoln; leave union |
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| Governor during civil war; lacked food, soldier desertion |
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| 1864 conquest of Atlanta and subsequent march to the sea; made Savannah chrismas present to Lincoln |
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| reconstruction; white politicians forged a postwar consitution and the abolition of slaver; repealed secession; |
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| new constitution rxtended the vote to only |
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| free white male citizens; authorized public schools; rejected 14th amendment |
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| head of Ku Klux Klan in the state |
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| ratified 14A; dismissed white supremacy |
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| the ____ ___ kept blacks away from voting polls |
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| equal representation of blacks on juries; outsted |
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| farmers found themselves mortgaging an unplanted crop and unspecified rate of interest for a loan of undetermined value |
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| teach, attorney, Populist Party, which had grown primarily out of the Farmers Alliance (cooperative action) |
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| Farmers Alliance Populist threat was economic but racial |
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| "New South Crusade sought to promote prosperity through economic diversification especially the rapid expansion of industry |
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| a rigid system of racial separation in Georgia |
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| payment of poll tax; white primary; literacy test disenfranchisement of blacks |
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| tripartite system of political neutralization, legalized discrimination, and extralegal coercion and terrorism |
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| final solution to race question |
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| Booker T. Washington pg 41 |
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| "Georgia connotes to most men naitonal supremacy in cotton and lynching, southern supremacy in finance an industry and the KKK |
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| the state's foremost feminist and leading reform advocate, condemned (in favor) the convict lease system; championed women's suffrage; all-male electorate; equal pay; first woman senator |
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| for lynching; Leo Frank, ran gov john slaton out of the state |
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| poor white, evils of sharecropping |
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| paid of influential people by the county-unit system |
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| "Wild Man from Sugar Creek; hog; 4x governor; martial law; textile bribery; against FDR new deal; lost to Ellis G Arnall; last election: James V Carmichael (lost); died 1946>office |
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| 1944 Supreme Court invalidated the |
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| 1946 Arnall wanted _ to take office |
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| Melvin E. Thompson vs Herman Talmadge (won) |
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| but eats cotton during WWI (20s |
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| New Deal Agrcultural Adjustment Administration |
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| introduced a program of subsidized acreage reduction, triggering 40% loss in shaercroppers, tractors; |
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| economic transformation; defense expenditures gave cities industrialization less agriculture; Warner Robbins, fort Bennett |
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| low wage: textiles, apparel, lumber--> automobiles |
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| supersegrationists; super-salesmen |
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| Brown v Board of education 1954 |
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| closed public schools rather than integrate by H Talmadge followed by Griffin and Vandiver |
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| represented a turning point in the civil rights crusade as large numbers of working-class blacks joined student organizers and activists in what would become the prototype fir kater protsets in Birmingham; SNCC |
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| disobey unjust laws; montgomery bus boycott; "red clay hills of georgia" i have a dream |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| many blacks still spoke Gullah |
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| invalidated county-unit system |
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| who beat Griffin in election without county-unit |
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| middle/upper class; Maddox rural (won) |
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| education; job; justice equality; Gerald Ford; redneck euphoria |
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| The dominant religious subgroup was |
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| Governor Zell Miller 1990 |
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| helping outstanding pupils educationally full-tution, four-year scholarship to students who have a B average in high school and maintain it |
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| 1996 Olympic Games during Mayor Andrew Young "whatizit"; ban on GA flags; best attendedl 8.6 million |
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| coat of arms of field of blue |
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