CLOZE Notes: SS8H5
SS8H5: Student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of
the United States between _________ and _______.
a. Explain the establishment of the ___________, Louisville, and the spread of the ____________ and
__________ churches.
b. Evaluate the impact of the land policies pursued by Georgia; include the __________, land lotteries, and
the Yazoo ____________.
Georgia State Constitution: 1789
 Resembled new US Constitution
 Called for a ___________ legislature and three branches of government: executive, __________,
and legislative
 Included plans for local governments
 Responsible for keeping records and establishing a system of law
 County seat was the ____________: courthouse and jail located there
 Counties had to be small enough so that citizens could make it back home in one day
 As counties grew, they were divided into __________
Post-Revolutionary Georgia
Education
 Slow growth; many not __________
 Governor Lyman Hall recommended state set aside land for schools; few built
 _______: set aside land and named trustees for a state college
 Land Grant University: federal government gave land
 1785: ____________ (Oldest school of its kind)
 First Building: Franklin College
 1786: Georgia Legislature required all counties to ___________
 Wealthy could afford colleges
 Females not admitted to UGA until _________
Creating a Capital City
 For much of Georgia’s early history, the capital rotated between _______ and __________
 Savannah became difficult to get to for citizens who moved inland
 Augusta was too ____________
 ________: legislature appointed a commission to find a site for the new, ______ located capital
 Funds to purchase 1000 acres of land—city was to be modeled after then-US capital of
___________
 Legislature required that the new location be _____ miles from an Indian trading
post on the _____ River (present-day _________ County)
 Insisted the new capital be called “__________” to honor King ______ XVI of
France (helped in the Rev. War)
 1796: New Capital in Louisville ________; served as capital for ________ years
 February 21, 1796: Holy Fire From Heaven (_________ records burned in front of the capital
steps)
 1804: With _________ expansion, legislature voted to build a new capital in _________ County
(Milledgeville)
Post Revolutionary Georgia
Religion
 Churches grew in _________ and __________
 Anglican, Quakers, Baptists, Methodists…
 1787: ___________ founded by free blacks
 1788: First African Baptist Church in Savannah est. by ___________
 Jewish synagogue established in ______________
 1796: 1st ___________ in Wilkes County
 1801: Savannah
 Sunday and weekday services
 Buildings used as ______________
 Great __________ Movement
 ___________: popular religious revivals in the form of camp meetings, very popular in the South
 Popular among ___________
 Mid 1800’s: Church membership grew
 By 1860, ________ churches in the state
 Methodist and Baptist were the largest denominations
 Slaves generally attended church with their ________, so there was little __________ in churches
 Impact of Slavery
 Methodists in the South pulled out of their national organization over slavery and formed the
_________________
 Baptists in the South left the American Baptist Union when its foreign ministry board would not
accept slave owners as missionaries (formed the ____________________)
Yazoo Land Fraud
 A scam by the Georgia Legislature and Governor George Matthews in which 4 land companies
_____________ them to sell land at a reduced rate (1795)
 Citizens were upset as the companies turned around to sell the land back to them at much
_____________
Results
 People involved were _________ out of office
 Records burned “God save the State, and long preserve her rights and may every attempt to injure them
perish, as these wicked and corrupt acts now do!”
 Money returned to state
 Indians were __________ their land
 Georgia lost a large part of its land from the Trustee Period (__________ and ______Territory)
 Chattahoochee River becomes western ___________ of Georgia
 Federal Government gave Georgia money and promised to help with Indian _____________
 TRAIL OF TEARS