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Headright system
Plantation owners benefited from the headright system when they paid for the transportation of imported slaves. This, along with the increase in the amount of money required to bring indentured servants to the colonies, contributed to the shift towards slavery in the colonies. Until 1699, a slave was worth a headright of fifty acres. According to records, in the 1670s over 400 slaves were used as headrights in Virginia. This number increased in the 1680s and 1690s. -
university of georgia
The university of georgia was assemblemed on Janurary 27th,1785. First chartered on this date, Abraham baldwin vigorously worked for the right of the new university. Baldwin held uppermost the advanced principle that the state should care for the education of its citizens, even to the extent of having all public schools organized into one body. The University of Georgia having 220+ years of educating young adults, has had a variety of great men and woman graduate. -
louisville
On Janurary 1st,1786 , the capital was changed from Augusta to the town of Louisville. It was changed to bring the capital closer to the majority of Georgia's population. This effected Georgia by making the capital closer to the population, making it an overly popular town.It was a small crowded spot being only 3.7 square miles. This made the later capital change to Atlanta. -
cotton gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil and meal.
Although simple handheld roller gins have been used in India and other countries since at least 500 AD, the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American invento -
Land lottery
The Georgia land lotteries were an early nineteenth century system of land distribution in Georgia. Under this system, qualifying citizens could register for a chance to win lots of land that had formerly (and in most cases recently) been occupied by the Creek Indians and the Cherokee Nation. The lottery system was utilized by the State of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833. Although some other states used land lotteries, none were implemented at the scale of the Georgia contests -
baptist/methodist revival
The Welsh Methodist revival was an evangelical revival that revitalised Christianity in Wales during the 18th century. Methodist preachers such as Griffith Jones, William Williams and Howell Harris were heavily influential in the movement. The revival ended in the late 1790s after the deaths of Williams, John Wesley and Daniel Rowland; though its influence on Wales led to the establishment of the Calvinistic Methodists and revitalised old dissenting churches. -
Railroads
Hundreds of railroad companies have operated in Georgia since the first train rolled away in the 1830s. This event was important because it made transportation faster. This affected Georgia because it made transporting goods and people easier and more efficiant.Many railroads had nicknames and marketing names in addition to their corporate names. These often had Route or Line as part of the name. -
Yazoo land fraud
The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive fraud perpetrated from in the mid-1790s by several Georgia governors and the state legislature. They sold large tracts of land in the Yazoo lands, what is now portions of Alabama and Mississippi, to political insiders at very low prices in 1794. Although the law enabling the sales was overturned by reformers the following year, its ability to do so was challenged.
