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1. Georgia established the FIRST state-supported public University ever
2. The UGA was Established on January 27, 1785
3. The Georgia General Assembly had set aside around 40,000 acres of land for the University of Georgia in 1784.
4. The UGA was established by the legislature’s approval of Abraham Baldwin's charter. This charter declared that education is essential to a free government, and the government should have the responsibility to not only educate the wealthy and privileged but to educate everyone.
5. The first college in UGA was Franklin College.

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1. Savannah was GA's first capital
2. Georgia's first state constitution was held at Savannah.
3. Savannah's was the capital of Georgia from 1732 to 1785.
4. Served as the colonial "capital" of Georgia.
5. The main reason for its growth can be explained by its location on a major waterway that made it ideal for trade

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1: The advancement of the British military encouraged the Patriots to move the state capital upriver to
Augusta.
2: This was the beginning of the rotating capitals; war activities would cause the seat of government to move back and forth between Savannah and Augusta.
3: Ultimately, many believed that
Augusta was located too far east as the population of the new state was rapidly moving west into American Indian territory.
4: Served as the state capital of Georgia from 1785 until 1795.
5: Georgia's Capital Cities Augusta Georgia moved its capital from Savannah to Augusta in 1785 to be more accessible to people moving west.

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1: The city was named after the current governor John Milledge, and the city served as the state capital for sixty years.
2: The capital remained in Milledgeville during the Civil War, but it was abandoned as General Sherman made his way toward the city.
3: A new constitution was adopted and elections were held and the legislature reconvened in Milledgeville.
4:It was the capital of Georgia from 1804 to 1868.
5: Due to continued western expansion and an outbreak of malaria in Louisville the capital was moved to Milledgeville.

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1: Located in Jefferson County, Louisville was selected as the
capital because its location was the center of Georgia’s population.
2: The state’s legislators hoped that the town would also serve as a trading center due to its location on the Ogeechee River.
3: Louisville’s time as capital
ended in 1807 due to several factors including the malaria outbreaks that occurred in the city every year, the difficulty of using the Ogeechee River as a trade route, and most importantly, the continual northwestern movement of Georgia’s population.
4:Georgia's capital from 1796 to 1807
5:Louisville was Geogia's 3rd capital.

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1: The removal of the Cherokees in 1838 led state lawmakers to anticipate another westward move for the state capital to Atlanta.
2: The chartering of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad led to the development of the town of Terminus. Renamed Marthasville, after former Governor Wilson Lumpkin’s daughter Martha, residents soon protested that the name was too feminine for the frontier. In 1847, the General Assembly renamed the town Atlanta.
3: In 1868, a new constitutional convention was ordered to meet in Atlanta by General Pope.
4.Atlanta became the temporary location of the State capital in 1868
5.Atlanta has been the Capital of Georgia for 153 years.

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1: Under this system, men
who did not fight in the Revolution could also receive free land
2: Georgia gave thousands of acres of land to soldiers who had fought during the Revolution
3: Heads of households (white men over
the age of 21) could receive up to 200 acres of land. Men who had families or slaves received even more.
4: The headright system referred to a grant of land, usually 50 acres, given to settlers in the 13 colonies.
5: The headright system in Virginia functioned for nearly 100 years

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1: The final approach Georgia used to allocate land was the land lottery system.
2: These lotteries gave the average Georgian the opportunity to gain a large amount of land for pennies on the dollar.
3: On the day of the lottery, the participants’ names
were placed in one drum while the land lots bearing a number would be placed in a second drum. Participants could have their names placed in the drum more than once based on characteristics such as their age, marital status, and war service.
4. From 1805-1833, Georgia had eight land lotteries.
5. To take part in a land lottery, a person would simply have to submit their names to the state and pay for a ticket.

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1: It was soon discovered that the land companies bribed members of the Georgia General Assembly to sell the land.
2: Almost immediately, Georgians protested the sale.
3: Nevertheless, the legislators chose to continue with the arrangement. Upon hearing about this, one of Georgia’s U.S. senators, James Jackson, was so outraged he resigned from his seat and returned to the
state.
4: Once back, he and his political allies took control of the Georgia General Assembly and nullified the Yazoo Act.
5. In 1802, Georgia ceded the land to the U.S. government for $1.25 million dollars and the promise that the U.S. would relinquish Indian land claims in the state and remove the Creek Indians from Georgia.

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1: The development of the cotton gin transformed the production of cotton into an economic windfall for the state, however, at an immense human cost in the form of slavery.
2: The cotton gin’s impact on Georgia’s economic and population growth came with a terrible cost, the
expansion of slavery. According to historical tradition, the idea for the cotton gin was conceived by Eli Whitney, a northerner who had moved to Georgia in 1793.
3: During this time period, tobacco, which at the time was one of Georgia’s most important crops, was destroying the soil. As an alternative to tobacco, the state was looking for ways to make growing cotton a more profitable crop.
4: A cotton gin is a machine used to separate cotton fibers from their seeds.
5: The cotton gin was invented by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1774.

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1: The first Georgia railroad was chartered in 1832.
2: In the 1840s and 1850s, railroads had spread across so much of the state that Georgia ranked in the top ten for railroad track millage.
3: As mentioned earlier in this standard, Atlanta was first known as Terminus, the “end of the line”. As a railroad town from its beginning, Atlanta became the first major American city to be built on a location without a navigable river.
4.It was created in part by businessmen in Athens, who needed a better way to transport cotton to Augusta due to poor road conditions.
5.Georgia had the more miles of track than any other of the southern states.

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1: When the Trustee period ended, Savannah was deemed the “seat of government” and the legislative assembly and courts were headquartered there.
2: The document served as a framework for moving from a colony to a state for Georgia.
3: The Document was in effect for only 12 years.
4: Georgia's first attempt at constitutional government was initiated in April 1776
5: This document provided a framework for the transition from colony to state.

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1: The second approach for giving land was called the Yazoo Land Act.
which was named after a river in the present state of Mississippi.
2: This act sold much of the land that would become Alabama and Mississippi to four land companies for $500,000.
3: Soon after Georgia governor, George Mathews, signed the Yazoo Act into law.
4. In 1795 the Yazoo Land Act was signed.
5. It was named after a river in the present state of Mississippi.