Unit+4+Statehood,+Revolution,+and+Westward+Expansion

|| **A. Explain the causes of the American Revolution and their impact on GA. **

 The French and Indian War took place in North America. It was Britain and their colonies and the French with theirs. Both sides also hired or convinced Indians to help their side. The land they were fighting for was known as the Ohio River Valley . The British ended up winning.

//Fort Necessity. One of the important Battles in the French and Indian War. Is this worth fighting for?//

After the war, the colonists were upset because the king of Britain (KGIII) had reserved the land for the Indians (The Proclamation of 1763). The British also made all the colonists pay the war dept from the war. The Colonists thought this was unfair, because they could not settle on the land they had fought for and they also had to pay for it.

//The Treaty of Paris of 1763 granted land once claimed by the French to the British, more than doubling the size of the British Empire.//

//Proclamation of 1763: Georgia's southern boundary set at St. Mary's River; Georgia colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains as the land was reserved for the Native Americans.//

 Britain was still in need of money, so the king had decided to lay the stamp act on the colonies. This act put a tax on paper that the colonies used. The way to show that the tax was payed was by a stamp being stuck onto the paper. This irritated the colonists. This affected Georgia by causing its magazine industry to hault on the production of magazines.

 The colonists had grown tired from paying the British. This caused a group of people to form the Boston Tea Party and dump millions of dollars worth of British Tea into the ocean. This resulted in the colony of Massachusetts to endure the intolerable acts.  There were four acts.  These acts made the colonists of Massachusetts pay tax on paper, sugar, and molasses. They also had to pay tax on paint and glass. The colonists also had to provide shelter, food, and water for the soldiers that Britain brought into Massachusetts.
 * 1) The Stamp Act
 * 2) The Sugar Act
 * 3) The Townshed Act
 * 4) The Quartering Act

  //Stamp Act of 1765 requiring a tax be paid on all British made paper in the American colonies. The colonist did not approve of this tax because they had no representation in the British Government. //

 //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Colonist were required to provide housing and food for British soldiers so they could insure colonists were paying the proper taxes. //

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> After all the acts and taxes that the colonists had to go through, it was decided that representatives from each colony would sign and agree by the terms of the Declaration of Independence <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. They were sick with the British and were ready to break free. Join or Die: can this be any clearer? CLASS NOTES

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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">B. Explain the Importance of the people and events in GA of the American Revolution. **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Once the colonies decided to break free, the colonists were split into two groups. These groups were the patriots and the loyalists. The patriots wanted to seceed from Britain. The loyalists wanted to stay with Britain.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There were many contributors to the patriot side of the colonies. Some of them are: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Elijah Clarke was in charge of the patriot forces in the battle of Kettle Creek. Austin Dabney had taken a bullet for him in the battle, and was later rewarded for doing so. Nancy Hart killed five British soldiers and buried them outside of her home. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton signed the Declaration of Independence.
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Elijah Clarke
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Austin Dabney
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nancy Hart
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Button Gwinnett
 * 5) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lyman Hall
 * 6) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">George Walton

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The two major events that took place in Georgia were the Battle of Kettle Creek and the Siege of Savannah. The Battle of Kettle Creek was a patriot victory. The victory enabled Georgia to receive needed for its battles during the war. The Siege of Savannah was a fatal loss that caused the colony to be under British control until the end of the war.

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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Georgia's first constitution was made in 1777. It was adopted in Savannah. One of the things that the constitution had done was create eight counties (Burke, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Richmond, Liberty, and Wikes counties). The Constitution had many issues, some of them being that the constitution had created a troubled unicameral system. Another problem the constitution possessed was that the governor had little power. This was because the colonies had broken free and had no intentions of making “another Britain" where one man/woman held all the power. Instead they gave the majority of the power to the legislature. ======

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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> It was things like these that caused the constitution to be changed in 1789. Even though it was changed, it took the state many more times before they came up with the perfect constution. ======

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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The Articles of Confederation <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> was ratified by Georgia in 1778. It served as the first U.S. Constitution. The Articles, like Georgia's constitution, had not been a good and stable constitution. This was because the government was weak, there was only one branch (legislative), and the states could issue their own paper money. Some of the good things were that the country could declare war/peace and create new states/territories. ======

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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There were more liabilities that resulted from the articles than assets. When the government tried to put the Articles into action, it messed up everything. This caused another document to replace it. It was the U.S. Constitution <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. ======

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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Constitutional Convention of 1787 <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> was a convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Representatives from all of the states attended. Georgia's representatives were Abraham Baldwin and William Few. Both of the representatives signed the Constitution. **======

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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Georgia liked the constitution partly because of its legislature. The constitution created the senate and the House of Representatives. The senate would take 2 representatives from each state. The House of Representatives would take in representatives based on the population of a state. Since Georgia was a small state, it approved and ratified the constitution in 1788. ====== || Same thing...different way to look at it.





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 * ===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.8em;">SS8H5 GA's Development Between 1789 and 1840 ===

CLASS NOTES || **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A. Explain the establishment of GA's Colleges, Cities, and Churches. **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The University of Georgia (Franklin College) was developed by Abraham Baldwin in 1789. It was a land grant <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> university. Abraham Baldwin believed in the importance of education. He had created the school for men in all of the states.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> GA's previous capitals had been Savannah and Augusta. The government had begun selling land in western Georgia. This caused the population to spread from east to west and since both of the previous capitals had been far east, they needed a new one. Louisville had become Georgia's next capital. It was designed to look like Philadelphia and be closer to the citizens of the western areas, but not too far away from the eastern part of the state.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Another thing that grew in Georgia was religion. Baptists and Methodists moved in and built churches. Soon the religions spread through the state like a wildfire in a plain of dry grass.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">B. Explain the impact of land policies pursued by GA. **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The government of Georgia wanted its state to grow. To do this, it needed its citizens to move farther west. They set up two systems to do this. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">They were: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Headright System was simple. It gave each "head" of the family the right to buy land that was west of the eight counties, the Indian Territory.
 * 1) Headright System
 * 2) Land Lottery

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Land Lottery replaced the Headright System in 1803, after the Yazoo Land Fraud. The lottery split Indian Territory into sections. A person that was eligible to participate in the lottery would by a lottery ticket. If that ticket was pulled out/called, the ticket owner would receive the land. This system too sold Indian Territory.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In December of 1789, Georgia made a huge mistake. The states legislature committed the Yazoo Land Fraud <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. This crime occurred when Georgia sold the land of present Mississippi and Alabama that they didn't own to the South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee Yazoo Company for cheap. This caused a lot of trouble and cost the U.S. a lot of money. Georgia was punished by losing all of the land that they sold during the fraud. This angered the citizens and caused the legislatives not to be re-elected. This ended the Headright system and caused the creation of the land lottery.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">C. Explain how the development of technology had an impact on GA's growth. **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A man named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. This invention increased the amounts of cotton that could be cleaned to be sold in a day. This meant that cotton farmers could make more money and produce more cotton on larger farms. A problem that grew in the southern cotton fields was slavery. When the peoples' farms got bigger, they needed more workers. These workers were slaves <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Another great invention was the train <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and railroads <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. This wonderful invention could ship goods and people to places faster. This caused businesses in Georgia to become larger and more businesses to come in. This too increased the demand for slaves.

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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">D. Analyze the Events that lead up to Indian Removal in GA. **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There were two major groups of Indians in Georgia, the Creek <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and the Cherokee <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. The U.S. President, Andrew Jackson, wanted both to leave the state for Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). The Creek Indians were in the south parts of Georgia. They had two important leaders. One of them was Alexander McGillivray. He had signed the Treaty of New York <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and in doing so, gave away land to the United States of America.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The other leader was William McIntosh. He had signed the Treaty of Indian Springs <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, and gave away more land to the U.S. This angered the Creek Indians so much that they had killed him in his own home on April 30, 1825. After this, the U.S. removed all the creeks from Georgia.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The Cherokee Indians were more advanced than the Creek. They owned plantations with slaves and had their own newspaper, The Cherokee Phoenix <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. The founder of the Syllabary <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> was Sequoyah. He had developed a set of syllables to represent each word. Thanks to him, Elias Boudinot created the Phoenix.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The Cherokee Indians had a leader named John Ross. John Ross was doubted by John Ridge and Elias Boudinot. They thought that the people should negotiate with the U.S. and sell the land and move into Indian Territory. John Ross disagreed. When Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot tried to sell their land, they were murdered.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Soon after, gold was discovered in North Georgia (Cherokee lands (Present Day Dahlonega)). White settlers moved in and everything went all crazy. This lead to the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Two men named Samuel Worcester and Elizur Butler were against the laws Georgia was making. They disagreed with the removal of the Cherokee Indians and refused to get the license required for any inhabitant in the Cherokee Country. This caused them to be dragged out of the Cherokee area and thrown in prison. The case was called Worcester v. Georgia. Georgia had won. Worcestor and Butler were released four years later and the Cherokee Indians had been removed. John Marshall tried to stop Indian Removal during his period in court, but Jackson ignored him and removed the Indians.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Indians were forced to endure the long Trail of Tears <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. Many had died. This was the end of Indian removal in Georgia. ||

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