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Early Statehood Web Quest

Directions: You will be visiting different websites in order to research questions given below.

The Founding of UGA

A University is born! Log onto GPB.org and select UGA’s virtual field trip:

  1. When was UGA founded?
  2. Where is its main campus today? (city and county)
  3. How many acres does it cover today?
  4. Who wrote the charter creating UGA?
  5. What was the original emphasis of the college?
  6. UGA has the honor to be the first ______institute of higher learning in the United States (and first land grant institute) but did not hold classes until _____.
  7. Who was Josiah Meigs?
  8. When did Franklin College open its doors?
  9. How many buildings does UGA’s main campus have today?
  10. When were women granted admission?

The Spread of the Baptist and Methodist Religions

READ ONLY METHODIST BEGINNINGS IN GEORGIA!!

  1. What movement helped to advance the spread of Methodism in Georgia?
  1. What are camp meetings?
  1. Complete the graph.

1788 / 1790 / 1814 / 1861
# of Methodists in GA
  1. What caused this growth of participants in the Methodist religion?
  1. Why do you think Methodists sought to evangelize slave populations?
  1. Browse through the section “Beliefs and Organization” and tell me what “circuit riders” are and who founded the Methodist religion.
  1. As of 2005, how many Baptist churches are estimated to be in Georgia? How many members of the Baptist religion are their approximated to be?
  2. Where were “tiny Baptist centers” formed? How many Baptists arrived with James Oglethorpe?
  3. What was the first continuing Baptist church?

“Major Baptist Bodies in Georgia”

4. Skim through this section and tell me whether or not slaves were converted to the Baptist religion.

History of Georgia’s Capitals

Answer the following questions using the links provided. READ BOLD HEADINGS:

  1. How many cities have been Georgia’s capitals and in what order?
  1. At what point was Savannah named the capital city or “seat of government”?
  2. Why did the government leave Savannah?
  1. What caused the center of population to move away from Savannah and the coast?
  2. Where is Augusta?
  3. Describe the complaint about the location of Augusta which led to a search for a new capital location?
  1. What city was Georgia’s third capital modeled after?
  2. What did they name this new city and why?
  1. Over the course of what years was Louisville the capital?
  2. Where is Louisville?
  3. Why was the building of the capital delayed?
  4. What was the criticism that led to the move of the capital from Louisville?
  1. What years was Milledgeville the state capital?
  2. Where is Milledgeville? What was it modeled after?
  3. What was its role during the Civil War?
  4. What caused Milledgeville to prosper into a wealthy city?
  5. What two events solidified Milledgeville’s reputation as a social and political center of Georgia?
  6. What happened during the Civil War which led to the capital moving again?
  1. To what does Atlanta owe its origins?
  2. What was Atlanta once known as?
  3. When did Atlanta become the current state capital?
  4. How would you describe Atlanta’s significance to the United States today?
  1. Scroll down to the interactive map toward the middle of the web page. Click “play” and watch the state of Georgia grow over time. Pay attention to the years and the caption to the right of the state. You are able to “stop” to pause and just click “play” again to resume.
  2. Describe the location of the Cherokee and Creek lands.
  3. When did the Creek lose all of their land? What counties were in this location?
  4. When did the Cherokee officially lose their land? What county was in this location?

Headright System

  1. What was the purpose of the Georgia Headright System?
  2. Who had rights to this land and how much could they receive?
  3. Why was the headright system implemented?
  4. Timeline:
    Who was allowed to give land in 1777?
  5. What is changed to this system in 1780?
  6. What is marked in 1783?
  7. How do they establish order in 1785?
  8. Who does Georgia agree to sell land to in December of 1789?
  9. What happened on January 7, 1795?
  10. February 18, 1796?
  11. February 21, 1796?
  12. May 11, 1803?

The Yazoo Land Fraud

Answer the following questions using the link(s) provided:

  1. What were the names of the Yazoo land companies?
  1. How far west did Georgia’s boundaries extend in 1795?
  2. What was the reasoning behind wanting to move the Native Americans from this western area?
  3. How did the land companies manage to buy land at such cheap prices?
  4. Describe how the land companies were able to make huge profits off the land?
  5. How did many Georgians react when they discovered the fraud?
  6. Describe the actions in 1796.
  7. How did the event end up in the United States Supreme Court?
  8. How did the scandal finally end?

Land Lotteries

  1. Prior to the American Revolution, what group held political and economic power in the South?
  2. How did the role of political and economic power change after the Revolution?
  3. What was the source of the land that was distributed in the land lotteries?
  4. Who was eligible to receive land? How much did they pay for the land?
  5. Describe how the lottery worked.
  6. What gave participants more opportunities to be selected to receive land?
  7. What is the Compact of 1802?
  8. How did the use of frontier land change after the land lotteries? Why?
  9. How did the land lottery change the role of the common man?

The Cotton Gin

  1. What was the peculiar institution?
  2. What were the positives/intended consequences and negatives/unintended consequences of the invention of the cotton gin?
  3. Why did Eli Whitney move to South Carolina? What did he want to become?
  4. How much cotton could be cleaned a day by hand?
  5. What does the word “gin” mean in the context of the cotton gin?
  6. Before the cotton gin was widely available, the American slave population was 700,000 in 1790. By 1860, the narrator says, the slave population was______

The Railroad

Please see your teacher’s blog for the Railroad article to answer the following questions.

  1. When were Georgia’s first railroad tracks laid?
  2. How many miles of railroad track does Georgia boast today?
  3. Identify one INTENDED consequences railroads have for society and one UNINTENDED consequences railroads had for society. (NGE article)
  4. What is Georgia’s sole passenger train system? (NGE article)
  5. List 5 towns that “owe their existence” to Georgia’s rail system. (NGE article)