GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM -KSU|2023 LATEST UPDATE|GUARANTEED SUCCESS

GA History Overview Related to the rest of South, largest state east of MS, youngest and most southern of 13 colonies, by 1860 the most populous southern state Mississippian Period Dominant lifestyle of GA Indians Agriculturally- based , surplus food Chiefdom mounds for religious rituals pottery Ended when the number of Europeans increases Hernando de Soto 1st European to explore GA Spanish Missions Conversion of Indians to Christianity integrate Indians into political system/econ structure make more compliant to Spanish James Olgethorpe Founder of GA known for reform from Parliment Prison Reform- England was overcrowded, set up GA as a charity colony Silk and Wine Tamachichi- Yamacaw chief Yamacraw Indians led by Tomochichi, family clans, lived for 2 decades before merge with Brit Under econ influence of brit, needed immediate play, they attacked (Yamacraw War) Malcontents H8 Olgethorpe Leaders- Scots wanted to increase fortune through trading slaves and becoming slave planters Tonochichi Yamacraw Chief, mixed blood mediator bw Native/English settlers, contributes to success of colonies in GA Royal GA Period bw terminating Trustee Gov't and colony declaration of independence Reynolds- GA's 1st Royal Governor Battle of Bloody Marsh English vs Spanish @ St.Simons Only attempt of Spanish to invade English English won James Wright 3rd and LAST Royal Gov of GA Enforced Stamp Act,. GA= only colony that sold stamps Salzburgers German speaking Protestant colonists that were exiled from Austria King George and Trustees supported, theyre the only exception of the indentured servant law Built 1st water saw mill New Ebenezer= settlement Jeruselum Church= still stands today, 1st sunday school and orphanage Rice most abundant cash crop, 1st stable crop Revolutionary War in GA GA hesitated joining bc many families had loyalties to the King Did not send a rep to 1st continental congress Divided GA into: 1. Whigs= Resisting royal govt 2. Tories= loyal to King George Button Gwinnett 1/3 GA signatures on Declaration of Independence Served in GA colonial legislature and 2nd Continental Congress Pres of GAs Revolutionary Council of Safety Lachlan McIntosh Scottish Highland Fam, 18th century important role in American independence McIntosh Co. Mary Musgrove cultural liaison be natives (Creek) and colonial GA community biculturalism= protect Creek interests, peace, and expand the business as a trader full member of Creek and wind clan clain royal heritage Yazoo Land Fraud One of most significant events post revolutionary war Yazoo Land Sale (1795)- shaped politics and federal regulations White men claiming their inland tracts through a land lottery. Nat'l Gov't is unable to extinguish Creek and Cherokee claims fast enough -led to Indian Removal Act (1830s) Helped lead to trail of tears (1838) Mayor Ridge Cherokee leader- signed the Treat of New Echota (1835), which led to the Trail of Tears Eli Whitney inventor of the cotton gin (1793) expedited seeds from cotton, making crop affordable and profitable major contribution to the expansion of the south Nancy Hart GA's most acclaimed woman during revolutionary war devout patriot, rids area tories, english soldiers, and british sympathizers single-handed efforts against tories, patriot spies, and indians in broad river slavery in the Revolutionary war war offered freedom but re-established plantation economy many were killled or fled to find a better life but only a small amount found it effected slavery systems and the lives of slaves most in GA War of 1812 in GA Bw US and Britian Causes= impressing americans sailors to britian, brit trade restrictions to europpean during wars, brit military is on American soil, perceive to be mundane to natives Creek war Brit blockade Brit occupations of St. Marys/Cumberland Cherokee Removal 1838 & 1839, Troops exiled Cherokee from ancestral home- Southeast to Modern OK Removal= product of demand for land. increase cotton, gold discovery, racial prejudice Gold Rush Milledgeville newspaper announced North GA gold discovery Intrusion to Cherokee Land Dahlongega, gold mining Cotton GA's most abundant crop 2nd in US- GA production of cotton (2014) as cotton increases, so does slavery/slave trade increases during civil war (antebellum, textile industry) William Harris Crawford most politically prominent of his time 2 time presidential nominee and only Georgian to run before jimmy carter served state and nation -US senator and cabinet member under 2 presidents -foreign diplomat John Ross principle chief of cherokee preceded over nation during development of trail of tears, rebuildding indian territory fought against land lottery and indian removal whig wife died during trail of tears William Lumpkin GA's leader during Antebellum period elected to Congress-4 times, Governor-2 times, US Commissioner to Cherokee, US Senator, and GA boundary surveyor increased transportation, cre8 western and ATL railroad UGA trustee Sequoyah Cherokee syllabury creator writing system for cherokee Cherokee phoenix newspaper Howell Cobb President of provisional confederate congress and major general of confederate army graduated from UGA= lawyer Congressman, Speaker of House of Rep, Sec of Treasury Robert Toombs successionists, most ardent in US Senate led GA out of Union on eve of civil war slave holding planter, majority of career- preserving the Union sec of state for confederate in civil war major architect of state constitutions traditional southern democrat- conservative, opposed radical reconstruction