1. Westward Expansion
Growth

3. Growth
After the American Revolution, Georgians began to move West

4. Capitols
As people moved throughout the state, the capitol changed to the center of the populated areas
Government representatives could then meet in the middle

5. 1st—Savannah 2nd—Augusta 3rd—Louisville 4th—Milledgeville
Georgia Capitols
1st—Savannah
2nd—Augusta
3rd—Louisville
4th—Milledgeville

6. Louisville
Named after King Louis XVI Modeled after Philadelphia

7. “Holy Fire from Heaven”
February 21, 1796
Records from the Yazoo land sales were
collected
and burned
in front
of the Capitol

8. Education Only a few Georgians had a few years of elementary education
Few could read or do math
Few schools in the state

9. UGA Abraham Baldwin encouraged land to be set aside to build UGA
1st land grant
university in US
(land donated by
federal government)

10. The first building— Franklin College
UGA
The first building— Franklin College
Only White males were admitted

11. Baptists and Methodists
Two largest denominations in Georgia at the time

12. Methodist Churches
Circuit Riders--ministers who went from town to town

13. First African Baptist Church
First Baptist church in Savannah
Begun by Andrew Bryan—a freed
slave

14. Baptists and Methodists
Churches split over the issue of slavery
Southern Methodists formed the Methodist Episcopal Church
Baptists in the South left the American Baptist Union to form the Southern Baptist Union