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GA’s Westward Movement

GA’s Westward Movement. Manifest Destiny. Idea that nation should extend from Atlantic to Pacific Lewis and Clark Louisiana Purchase Cumberland Gap. GA Westward Movement. Boundaries move: French and Indian War Native American Lands Headright System Capital moves: To Augusta

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GA’s Westward Movement

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  1. GA’s Westward Movement

  2. Manifest Destiny • Idea that nation should extend from Atlantic to Pacific • Lewis and Clark • Louisiana Purchase • Cumberland Gap

  3. GA Westward Movement • Boundaries move: • French and Indian War • Native American Lands • Headright System • Capital moves: • To Augusta • To Louisville • To Milledgeville • To Atlanta (post Civil War)

  4. Yazoo Land Fraud • Sell land to speculators • Land in NW GA sold to 4 land companies for 2 cents an acre. • Dishonest legislatures fled the state and new legislature repealed the act. • U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all land be given to U.S. Government in 1814. • GA’s border moves to Chattahoochee River • Spain gives up land in south east GA and GA gave that land to U.S. government for $1, 250,000 and government promised to remove all Natives from GA.

  5. Land Lotteries • As more natives leave, more land is available. • Land is divided into square lots and the lots are drawn and matched with any male over 21 living in the state for 12 months that wanted the land. • Lots ranged from 40 to 490 acres depending on the type of land. • 6 lotteries were held over 28 years distributing 30 million acres of land to more than 100,000 people.

  6. Economic Growth • Steamboats • Railroads • Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney) • Corn Harvester • Mechanical Reaper (Cyrus McCorminck)

  7. Transportation in GA • Waterways Savannah River Oconee River (Milledgeville) Ocmulgee River (Macon) Chattahoochee River (Columbus) • Roads Indian Trails Road law (males between 16-60 to work on roads 12 days a year) Turnpikes (paid a toll to use road)

  8. Transportation • Railroads • 1833 General Assembly chartered 2 railroads. • Georgia Railroad Company westward from August to Madison, Eatonton, and Athens. • Central of Georgia Railroad from Savannah to Macon • 1838: track completed from Augusta to Greensboro and on to Madison and Athens. • 1836: railroad created from Chattanooga to Terminus (Altanta)

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