Georgia’s Statehood: Conflict, Change, & Consequences

1. Georgia’s Statehood: Conflict, Change, & Consequences By: Chelsey Sullivan

2. James Edward Oglethorpe • Proposed the creation of a “debtor’s colony” to the king. • Georgia colonists were his responsibility. • Negotiated with the Yamacraw to receive the land for Georgia.

3. Tomochichi • Chief of Yamacraw Indian tribe. • Negotiated with Oglethorpe and allowed him to settle on Yamacraw Bluff. • Became allies with the king. • He affected Georgia because without the land he gave, were would Georgia have been located?

4. Henry Ellis • Second royal governor of Georgia. • Helped to restore Georgia to its former glory by… -improving the government. -resolving land claims. -dividing it into parishes. -keeping the Creeks neutral during the French and Indian War.

5. Samuel Adams • Wanted colonists to protest against Britain. • Helped to provoke the Boston Tea Party. • This affected Georgia because colonists now had to live by the Intolerable Acts Britain had created as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party.

6. Thomas Jefferson • Wrote the Declaration of Independence. • His superb writing skills and willingness to create the Declaration changed American’s lives forever…

7. Declaration of Independence • The Declaration of Independence freed Georgians, as well as the rest of America, from Britain’s control. • It showed that Americans wanted to have their own way of doing things, without the interference of Britain.

8. Treaty of Savannah • This document represented the agreement between the colonists and Yamacraw Indians over the land of Yamacraw Bluff. • Without this treaty, Georgia may not have been located where it is today.

9. Treaty of Augusta • The Treaty of Augusta nearly tripled the size of Georgia. This is important because the treaty increased the amount of land within Georgia boundaries.

10. Georgia Constitution of 1777 • Though it has been changed many times, the Georgia Constitution of 1777 was the first form of an individual state system of government for Georgia.

11. Boston Tea Party • The Boston Tea Party was important to Georgia because it brought about the Intolerable Acts. • These acts were a punishment from Britain to make the colonists pay for what they had done. • They changed the way colonists had to live.