The Empire State of the South
, by Meyers, Christopher C.
- ISBN: 9780881461114 | 0881461113
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/1/2008
The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays offers teachers of Georgia history an alternative to the traditional narrative textbook. In this volume, students have the opportunity to read Georgia history rather than reading about Georgia history. Encompassing the entirety of Georgia history into the twenty-first century, The Empire State of the South is suitable for all courses on Georgia history.
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Georgia: The Natural Setting | |
| Colonial Beginnings to 1764 | p. 5 |
| Documents | |
| Guale Game and Ceremony | p. 7 |
| Colonial Charter | p. 8 |
| James Oglethorpe Reports on the Settlement of Georgia | p. 10 |
| Oglethorpe's First Treaty with the Lower Creeks | p. 11 |
| James Oglethorpe on English Ownership of Georgia | p. 12 |
| Antonio de Arredondo on Spanish Ownership of Georgia | p. 14 |
| Proposal Relating to the War in Georgia and Florida | p. 15 |
| Pro Memoria from the Late Trustees of the Colony of Georgia | p. 16 |
| Essays | |
| The Yamassee Revolt of 1597 | p. 17 |
| Frederica in 1742 | p. 20 |
| The Revolutionary Era, 1765-1787 | p. 26 |
| Documents | |
| Stamp Act Crisis | p. 28 |
| Tondee's Tavern Resolutions | p. 29 |
| Rules and Regulations | p. 31 |
| Constitution of 1777 | p. 33 |
| Proposed Union of Georgia and South Carolina | p. 35 |
| Land Grants to Georgia's Revolutionary Soldiers | p. 38 |
| Essays | |
| The British Capture of Savannah | p. 38 |
| Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia | p. 44 |
| Georgia in the New Nation, 1787-1845 | p. 48 |
| Documents | |
| Ordinance Ratifying the U.S. Constitution | p. 49 |
| Constitution of 1789 | p. 50 |
| Legislative Committee Report on Yazoo Land Fraud | p. 53 |
| Constitution of 1798 | p. 54 |
| Governor to Be Chosen by Popular Vote | p. 57 |
| Request for Removal of Federal Troops from Georgia | p. 58 |
| Nullification Resolves | p. 59 |
| Western and Atlantic Railroad Surveys | p. 61 |
| Essays | |
| The Georgia Gold Rush | p. 63 |
| Political Parties in the Jacksonian Era | p. 66 |
| The Native American Nations | p. 72 |
| Documents | |
| Compact of 1802 | p. 74 |
| Treaty of Fort Jackson | p. 75 |
| An Address to the Whites by Elias Boudinot | p. 76 |
| Constitution of the Cherokee Nation | p. 78 |
| Cherokee Phoenix | p. 80 |
| Georgia Assumes Control over Cherokee Land | p. 81 |
| Worcester v. State of Georgia | p. 82 |
| Treaty of New Echota | p. 84 |
| Essays | |
| Georgia and Muscogee/Creek Treaties | p. 86 |
| The Cherokee Trail of Tears | p. 89 |
| Antebellum Economics | p. 93 |
| Documents | |
| Southern Cultivator | p. 94 |
| Cultivation of Indigo in Georgia? | p. 95 |
| Georgia's Economic Resources | p. 96 |
| Augusta Plantation House | p. 98 |
| General Agricultural Statistics | p. 99 |
| General Industrial Statistics | p. 100 |
| Agriculture in the Confederate States | p. 100 |
| Essays | |
| Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia | p. 101 |
| Cotton Textiles in Georgia, 1810-1865 | p. 104 |
| Slavery and Free African Americans | p. 109 |
| Documents | |
| Law Prohibiting Slavery in Georgia | p. 110 |
| Darien Antislavery Petition, 1739 | p. 111 |
| Law Permitting Slavery in Georgia | p. 112 |
| Emancipating Two Georgia Slaves | p. 113 |
| Population of Slaves and Free African Americans, 1790-1860 | p. 114 |
| The State of Georgia Becomes a Slave Owner | p. 114 |
| Restrictions on Free Persons of Color | p. 115 |
| Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands | p. 116 |
| William and Ellen Craft in Boston | p. 117 |
| Essays | |
| Slavery in Georgia | p. 118 |
| Free African-American Women in Savannah | p. 122 |
| The Civil War Era, 1845-1865 | p. 127 |
| Documents | |
| Georgia Platform | p. 130 |
| Robert Toombs on the Sectional Conflict and Secession | p. 131 |
| Alexander H. Stephens on the Sectional Conflict and Secession | p. 132 |
| Ordinance of Secession | p. 134 |
| Alexander H. Stephens's Cornerstone Speech | p. 134 |
| Constitution of 1861 | p. 135 |
| Two Views of Class Voting Patterns | p. 138 |
| Indictment of Henry Wirz | p. 140 |
| Essays | |
| The Georgia Homefront during the Civil War | p. 141 |
| Wilson's Raid through Georgia | p. 145 |
| Women in Georgia | p. 150 |
| Documents | |
| Mary Muscrove Bosomworth's Land Acquisition | p. 152 |
| Women's Riots during the Civil War | p. 153 |
| Activities of the Georgia WCTU | p. 154 |
| Farmers Wives and Their Needs | p. 155 |
| An Open Letter for Woman Suffrage | p. 156 |
| Women's Suffrage Bill | p. 157 |
| Rebecca L. Felton's Senate Speech | p. 158 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt Visits and Speaks at Georgia State Woman's College | p. 159 |
| Women to Serve as Jurors | p. 161 |
| Essays | |
| Land Grants to Georgia Women, 1755-1775 | p. 162 |
| The Last Phase of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia | p. 166 |
| Reconstruction, 1865-1871 | p. 171 |
| Documents | |
| Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 | p. 173 |
| Constitution of 1865 | p. 175 |
| Constitution of 1868 | p. 177 |
| Black Legislators Protest Their Expulsion from General Assembly | p. 181 |
| Colonel O. H. Howard Reports on the Camilla Massacre | p. 183 |
| Reconstruction Ended in Georgia | |
| John B. Gordon Testifies on the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia | p. 185 |
| Essays | |
| Sherman's Reservation in Georgia | p. 187 |
| Black Politicians in Reconstruction Georgia | p. 190 |
| Postwar Politics and Economics, 1865-1890 | p. 194 |
| Documents | |
| Sample Tenant Farmer Contract | p. 196 |
| Crop Lien Law | p. 197 |
| Convict-Lease System Established | p. 198 |
| Henry Grady's "New South" | p. 198 |
| Creation of the Georgia Department of Agriculture | p. 199 |
| Constitution of 1877 | p. 201 |
| 1880 Resignation-Appointment Controversy | p. 204 |
| General Agricultural Statistics | p. 205 |
| General Industrial Statistics | p. 205 |
| Essays | |
| The New Departure Democrats in Georgia | p. 206 |
| The Farmers' Alliance in Georgia | p. 210 |
| Jim Crow Georgia, 1890-1920 | p. 215 |
| Documents | |
| Atlanta Compromise Speech | p. 216 |
| White Primary | p. 218 |
| The Georgia Equal Rights Convention, 1906 | p. 218 |
| Atlanta Race Riot | p. 219 |
| Disfranchisement Legislation | p. 221 |
| A Lynching Rampage in South Georgia | p. 222 |
| A Statement from Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia | p. 223 |
| Essays | |
| Black Georgia in the Progressive Era | p. 225 |
| The Geography of Lynching in Georgia, 1880-1930 | p. 228 |
| The Progressive Era, 1890-1920 | p. 235 |
| Documents | |
| Tom Watson Urges a Boycott on Jute | p. 236 |
| Georgia's People's Party Platform in 1892 | p. 238 |
| Banning Football in Georgia? | p. 239 |
| Charles Herty Describes His Cup and Gutter System of Turpentine Collection | p. 240 |
| Commutation of Leo Frank's Sentence | p. 241 |
| U.S. v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca Cola | p. 242 |
| Neill Primary Act | p. 244 |
| Essays | |
| The Populist Party in Georgia | p. 245 |
| Governor Hoke Smith's Reform Program | p. 249 |
| Depression and New Deal Era, 1920-1939 | p. 254 |
| Documents | |
| Cotton Production during the Flight of the Boll Weevil | p. 256 |
| How to Grow Cotton in Spite of the Boll Weevil | p. 257 |
| Governor Clifford Walker Addresses Ku Klux Klan | p. 258 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt's Visits to Warm Springs | p. 258 |
| Governor Richard Russell Address to Reorganization Committee | p. 260 |
| "Keeping the Lick" on the Georgia Chain Gang | p. 261 |
| The Three Dollar Tag Song | p. 262 |
| Martial Law Declaration | p. 262 |
| Emergency Appropriations Action | p. 264 |
| New Deal Relief Assistance to Georgia | p. 265 |
| Rural Electrification in Georgia | p. 266 |
| Essays | |
| Georgia Faces the Great Depression | p. 267 |
| Governor Eugene Talmadge vs. President Roosevelt and the New Deal | p. 270 |
| The World War II Era, 1939-1945 | p. 275 |
| Documents | |
| Emergency Wartime Measures | p. 276 |
| State University System Controversy | p. 277 |
| A German Prisoner of War Recalls His Time at Camp Fargo | p. 279 |
| State of Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company | p. 281 |
| Constitution of 1945 | p. 282 |
| President Roosevelt Dies at Home in Warm Springs | p. 287 |
| Thompson, Lieutenant Governor v. Talmadge | p. 288 |
| Essays | |
| Governor Ellis Arnall's Reform Program | p. 289 |
| WAVES at Georgia State College for Women | p. 293 |
| The Civil Rights Era | p. 296 |
| Documents | |
| Poll Tax Repealed | p. 298 |
| King v. Chapman | p. 299 |
| 1949 Literacy Test | p. 300 |
| Valdosta NAACP's Petition to Integrate Schools | p. 301 |
| Interposition Resolution | p. 302 |
| Sibley Commission Report | p. 303 |
| Holmes v. Danner | p. 305 |
| Letter from an Albany Jail | p. 307 |
| Senator Richard Russell on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | p. 309 |
| Essays | |
| The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia | p. 311 |
| The Albany Movement | p. 315 |
| Modern Georgia | p. 321 |
| Documents | |
| Gray v. Sanders | p. 323 |
| Governor Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address | p. 325 |
| Constitution of 1983 | p. 326 |
| Atlanta to Host 1996 Olympic Games | p. 330 |
| Governor Zell Miller on the State Flag | p. 332 |
| Georgia Elects Republican Governor in 2002 | p. 333 |
| Agricultural Statistics, 2002 | p. 334 |
| Manufacturing Statistics, 2002 | p. 334 |
| Georgia and BRAC 2005 | p. 335 |
| Essays | |
| Georgia Republicans and the Election of 1966 | p. 336 |
| Governor Zell Miller, the Lottery, and HOPE | p. 340 |
| Appendices | |
| Population of Georgia | p. 347 |
| Governors of Georgia | p. 348 |
| Counties in Order of Creation | p. 351 |
| State Symbols | p. 354 |
| Index | p. 355 |
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