the growth of georgia
The UNIVERSITY of Georgia
The University Of Georgia is one of the oldest colleges that still stands today. In 1784 the Georgia General Assembly set aside 40,000 acres of land for a college and learning. To figure out who would be the president of the university the Assembly had a meeting. The meeting was held on February 23 1786 and they selected Abraham Baldwin as the president. The university was established in 1801
the establish of lousivillie
Louisville was Georgia's third capital from 1796 until 1807. In 1796 the Georgia legislature gathered in Louisville where people were mad caused by the 1795 Yazoo Land Fraud. Arguments over the issue frequently spilled out to the streets of the new capital. But political violence did not deter growth. Tobacco and, later, cotton served as the major cash crops during Louisville's first decade. The legislature briefly considered making Louisville the home of the University of Georgia but decided to build the Jefferson, or Louisville, Academy there instead.
spread of methodist and baptist churches
In 1729, at Oxford University in England, brothers John and Charles Wesley and their associates, including George Whitefield, organized a group to practice a system of faith. In 1735 Wesley brothers and Whitefield sailed to the colony of Georgia, During their time in Georgia, the three men encountered the Moravian's. 1737 the Wesley brothers left Georgia and want back to England. As Wesley began to foster the growth of Methodism in England, the Methodist movement in America also grew over the next several decades. The formal introduction of Methodism into Georgia occurred when Coke and Asbury assigned Beverly Allen to Georgia in 1785. Allen was an minister who had been elected elder at the Christmas Conference and ordained a year later. In 1786 Thomas Humphries and John Major, both of the Virginia Conference, were sent as missionaries to Georgia. In 1733 one or two Baptists arrived in Savannah with James Oglethorpe, and others soon followed. Tiny Baptist centers were formed in the Savannah and Augusta areas. The earliest all-black congregations in Georgia, all founded in the late eighteenth century, were First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta. The Zion Baptist Association was the first African American general body in the state