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Headright system
-Is the head of the family had a right to own 200 acres.
-50 more acres for each family memeber.
-The more kids you had the more land you would get.
-The headrights system encouraged wealthy individuals to pay to transport indentured servants to Virginia. -
University Of Georgia
-First public university in Georgia established in 1785.
-Open only for white men.
-Created by state government.
-Designed to improve education for Georgians. -
Cotton gin
-Created by eli whitney in 1793.
- Seperated seeds from quickly.
- Increased cotton production and slavery in Georgia. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
-Alabama and Mississippi were once Georgia's territory.
-Land companies wanted to buy Georgia's western lands and bribed Georgia's governer and general assembly to sell the land.
-Georgia agreed and the land companies paid 500,000 for 35 million acres (About 1 cent per acre). -
Louisville
-3rd capital of Georgia.
-GA moved to capital west as people moved west.
-Out break of malaria so capital moved to Milledgeville. -
Land Lottery
-White men and older could pay to spin a wheel to win land.
-A way to divide the land up.
-Women had more chances. -
Railroads
-Railroads first constructed in Georgia in 1833s.
-Brought buisnesses, people, and goods into and out of the state.
-Many railroads lines intersected in terminus soon to be named Atlanta. -
Baptist/Methodist
-Two largest denominations in Georgia.
-Spead throughout in the late 1700's.
-People were experiencing a religions "awakening" and these churches spread throughout georgia.
-Major religions in Georgia.
