Life on the Georgia Frontier

Georgia at the Dawn of a New Century

Page 184-188

1. What are some of the characteristics of Georgia life in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s?
   Growth, Religious growth, Educational growth

Life on the Georgia Frontier

1. What are some of the reasons why people moved to the frontier?
   Excitement; Land
2. What were the only “stores” on the frontier?
   Trading Posts
3. What were some of the people that people living on the frontier would have to be worried about?
   Natives; Tories; British Soldiers
4. What were some of the events that frontier people had to look forward to?
   Bean Stringin; Corn Shucking; Apple paring cider makin; hog slaughterin

Life in Georgia’s towns

1. What were the two leading newspapers?
   Augusta Herald; Gazette of the State of Georgia
2. What did some rich families have to cook bread?
   Ovens built into chimneys
3. What are some examples of places made for special needs and where were they located?
   Hospital for the mentally ill in Milledgeville; School for the deaf in cave Springs; Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon

Religion

1. What are some of the different denominations in Georgia after the revolutionary war?
   Anglicans; Quakers; Baptists; Methodist
2. What are circuit riders?

Ministers who went from district to district

1. What church was founded in Augusta and why is it unique?
   Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta; First freed blacks
2. Where was Georgia’s first Roman Catholic Church founded?
   Wilkes County
3. What was church buildings often used for beyond church service?
   Town meetings and social events
4. Who is Joseph Smith?

Founder of the Mormon church

1. What happened to the Mormons in Georgia?
   Persecuted and forced to relocate
2. What did Richard Allen do after purchasing his freedom?
   Preacher
3. What group did he form?

Freed African Society

1. What church did he first found?

Bethel African Church

1. What denomination did he found?

African Methodist Episcopal Church

1. How many members does this denomination have?
   1.2 million

Education

1. Describe Georgia’s education in the late 1700’s

Few years of public education; farmers knew little;

1. What university was chartered in 1785?
   UGA
2. What makes UGA unique?
   First land grant university
3. When did the school open for classes?
   1801
4. Who could go to school there?
   Male; White
5. What other name was UGA called?
   Franklin College
6. What law was passed to encourage the development of education? Was it successful?
   each county had to create academies; unsuccessful bc
7. What school was founded in 1783?
   The Academy of Richmond County
8. What could student’s study there?
   Greek; Latin; Grammar; and Mathematics
9. What is the “Georgia Female Academy” known as today?

Wesleyan College