Westward Expansion Growth

Growth After the American Revolution, Georgians began to move West

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

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

Louisville Named after King Louis XVI Modeled after Philadelphia

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

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

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

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

Baptists and Methodists Two largest denominations in Georgia at the time

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

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

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