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Georgia Expansion
Ms Williams Class
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Geography
8th Grade
11/16/2009

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Cyrus McCormick
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Inventor of mechanical reaper
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Eli Whitney
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Inventor of cotton gin
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William Few
Definition
Representative of GA in Continental Congress
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Abraham Baldwin
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Representative of GA in Continental Congress
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Terminus/Marthasville
Definition
The ending point of the railroad line
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Joseph Smith
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Founder of Mormonism
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Gov. Lyman Hall
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Recommended setting aside land for schools
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Gov. George Matthews
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Passed bill allowing land cos. to buy western lands
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Sen. James Gunn
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Drew 6 year term in lottery
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Sen. James Jackson
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Resigned his post in the Senate to run for a seat in the Georgia legislature in 1795
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Franklin College
Definition
First school for all-male, all-white students
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Mississippi River
Definition
GA's western borders in 1795
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Richard Allen
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Founded African Methodist Episcopal Church and was first bishop
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Spread of Methodist Churches
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Richard Allen became part of circuit
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Spread of Baptist Churches
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Founded by free blacks
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Louisville
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Records of Yazoo Land Fraud sales burned here
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