Planters, yeoman farmers, poor whites and free African Americans.
What are the four classes of free people that made up southern society?
100
On a plantation, these slaves plowed and harvested the crops.
What is a field hand?
100
Funds started by the Georgia state legislature in 1822 to educate poor children.
What is poor school fund?
200
This machine made removing the cotton seeds easier.
What is the cotton gin?
200
Most wealthy Georgians refused to invest in anything besides these two things.
What is land and slaves?
200
Georgia's wealthy elite people made up this class of society.
What is planters?
200
This percentage of slaves lived on cotton plantations in Georgia.
What is 75%?
200
These schools taught 3 years of reading, math and writing to boys and girls.
What is old field schools?
300
It was easy to sell and grow so the South became dependent on it.
What is cotton?
300
Georgia's main source of transportation until the mid-1800's.
What is rivers?
300
Small communities that were usually equipped to take care of most of the people who lived on it.
What is a plantation?
300
Slaveholders used these methods to punish slaves in order to teach them obedience and to control them.
What is whipping?
300
This college was started by John Milledge.
What is the University of Georgia?
400
These people demanded that the state and federal governments keep their promises to acquire land belonging to the Creek and Cherokee so they could grow more cotton.
What is land speculators?
400
This was the answer to transporting goods from inland areas to the Atlantic Coast for shipping.
What is railroads?
400
Most white Georgians owned small estates and made up this section of free people in society.
What is yeoman farmers?
400
Three things that slaves were not allowed to do.
What is marry, learn to read, or learn how to write?
400
Two Protestant denominations that saw rapid growth in Georgia.
What is the Baptists and Methodists?
500
Planting the same crop year after year caused this problem.
What is soil exhaustion?
500
This was the site of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and the beginning of modern-day Atlanta.
What is Terminus?
500
This person was usually hired by the plantation owner to be in charge of the farming operation.
What is an overseer?
500
Slaves with special skills did these types of jobs.