AGE OF EXPANSION

U.S. CONSTITUTION – replaced the Articles of Confederation. – Provided 3 branches of Government Executive – President Legislative – Congress (Senate – 2 reps. Per state and House - rep. based on population) Judicial – Law, Courts, Constitutionality

AGE OF EXPANSION 3/5 TH Compromise – There were many more slaves in the Southern states, states wanted to count slaves for representation but not be taxed on slaves in household population. Northern states do not want slaves counted but do want them included in taxation. Compromise - every five slaves would count as three people, with 3/5 th of the slave population counted as a whole.

Age of Expansion Bill of Rights – one of the first acts of the new federal government. – The Bill of Rights insured protection of Americans against the power of government that was so greatly opposed under the realm of a monarchy. – The first ten amendments (additions) to the Constitution.

Age of Expansion Georgia Constitution of 1777 – set up a unicamerial legislature – Delegates: William Few and Abraham Baldwin attended the Constitutional Convention – Georgia adopted a new Constitution in 1789 which resembled the new U.S. Constitution. Bicameral (two-house) legislature (called the General assembly) Three branches of Government

AGE OF EXPANSION LAND DISTRIBUTION – Georgia was giving away any size lots as public domain. – Headright System - where each white male counted as head of a family will receive up to 1,000 acres. – Land Lottery - land west of the Oconee River - any white male, 21 years of age can buy a chance on the spin of a wheel to win land.

AGE OF EXPANSION Yazoo Land Fraud George Mathews (Governor) Yazoo Act – passed by Georgia Legislature allowing Georgia to sell large areas of its western land to private companies. Land companies bought most of the land and sold it to the Georgia settlers at a much higher price.

AGE OF EXPANSION Results of Yazoo Land Fraud All legislatives involved in this Yazoo Land Fraud are to be voted out of office The Yazoo Act is repealed and all records of this land sell are to be burned in public at the state capital in Louisville Georgia. Georgia lost a large part of its land because the Land Companies claimed their purchase was legit. Georgia had to pay a fine to the courts and “cede” land to the federal government. Georgia’s western boundary was cut to the Chattahoochee River.

AGE OF EXPANSION Louisiana Purchase – doubled the size of the United States President Thomas Jefferson approved the purchase from French leader Napoleon Bonaparte for $15 million.

AGE OF EXPANSION INVENTIONS Eli Whitney – Cotton Gin (know the story) Cyrus McCormick – Mechanical Grain Reaper Samual Slater – Spotlight on the Economy (cash crop, textile, etc.) Benjamin Franklin – Spotlight, Poor Richard’s Almanack

AGE OF EXPANSION Transportation Deep water ports (Savannah & Brunswick) Railroads (Western & Atlantic), Terminus Moving Freight (cotton) – Wagon Trains – Ferries – Train

AGE OF EXPANSION Religion Circuit Riders – ministers who traveled from district to district Joseph Smith – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Richard Allen – African Methodist Episcopal Church 1 st Catholic Church in Georgia established in Wilkes County Georgia Springfield Baptist Church – founded by Free Blacks in Augusta, original site of Morehouse College

AGE OF EXPANSION Education Few southern farmers have reading and math skills. Governor Lyman Hall attempted to promote education but lacked the necessary funding.

AGE OF EXPANSION University of Georgia (Franklin College) – Georgia’s first land grant university, oldest land grant university in the nation.

AGE OF EXPANSION Academy of Richmond County – oldest educational institution in the state of Georgia, established prior to the legislative law mandating that all counties establish and academy of learning, one of the oldest educational institutions in the nation.

AGE OF EXPANSION The Georgia Female College, later known as Wesleyan College, opened in Macon and while tuition seemed low by today’s standards, only the daughters of the wealthy were able to attend.

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