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  2. Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina to the north, South Carolina to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west.

    • Flag

      The flag of Georgia is the flag of the U.S. state of...

    • Burt Jones

      William Burton Jones (born April 25, 1979) is an American...

    • Politics of Georgia (U.S. State)

      The politics of Georgia change frequently and often follow...

    • Georgia General Assembly

      The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the...

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      The Georgia State Senate is the upper house of the Georgia...

  3. Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia. [15] Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities.

    • Pre-Colonial Era
    • European Exploration
    • British Colony
    • Capitals of Georgia
    • American Revolution
    • Antebellum Period
    • Civil War
    • Reconstruction
    • Postbellum Economic Growth
    • Agrarian Unrest and Disfranchisement

    Before European contact, Native American cultures are divided under archaeological criteria into four lengthy time periods of culture: Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian. Their cultures were identified by characteristics of artifacts and other archeological evidence, including earthwork moundsthat survive to the present and are visible abo...

    At the time of European colonization of the Americas, the historic Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee and Muskogean-speaking Yamasee & Hitchitipeoples lived throughout Georgia. The coastal regions were occupied by groups of small, Muskogean-speaking tribes with a loosely shared heritage, consisting mostly of the Guale-associated groups to the east and the...

    The conflict between Spain and England over control of Georgia began in earnest in about 1670, when the English colony of South Carolina was founded just north of the missionary provinces of Guale and Mocama, part of Spanish Florida. Guale and Mocama, today part of Georgia, lay between Carolina's capital, Charles Town, and Spanish Florida's capital...

    Georgia has had five different capitals in its history. The first was Savannah, the seat of government during British colonial rule, followed by Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta, the capital city from 1868 to the present day. The state legislature has gathered for official meetings in other places, most often in Macon and especially ...

    Royal governor James Wright was popular, but all of the 13 colonies developed the same strong position defending the traditional rights of Englishmen which they feared London was violating. Georgia and the others moved rapidly toward republicanism which rejected monarchy, aristocracy and corruption, and demanded government based on the will of the ...

    During the 77 years of the Antebellum period, the area of Georgia was soon reduced by half from the Mississippi River back to the current state line by 1802. The ceded land was added into the Mississippi Territory by 1804, following the Louisiana Purchase, with the state of Alabama later created in 1819 to become the west Georgia state line. Also d...

    On January 19, 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union, keeping the name "State of Georgia" and joining the newly formed Confederacy in February. White solidarity was strong in 1861–63, as the planters in the Black Belt formed a common cause with upcountry yeomen farmers in defense of the Confederacy against the Union. Around 120,000 Georgians served ...

    At war's end the devastation and disruption in every part of the state was dramatic. Wartime damage, disruption to plantations, and miserable weather had a disastrous effect on agricultural production before the end of the war. Production of the state's chief money crop, cotton, fell from a high of more than 700,000 bales in 1860 to less than 50,00...

    Under the Reconstruction government, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to the inland rail terminus of Atlanta. Construction began on a new capitol building, which was completed by 1889. With the city a center of trade and government, the population of Atlanta increased rapidly. Post-Reconstruction Georgia was dominated by the Bourbon T...

    While Grady and other proponents of the New South insisted on Georgia's urban future, the state's economy remained overwhelmingly dependent on cotton. Much of the industrialization that did occur was as a subsidiary of cotton agriculture; many of the state's new textile factories were devoted to the manufacture of simple cotton bags. The price per ...

  4. Georgia is a state in the southeastern part of the United States. It is bordered by Florida to the south, Alabama to the west, Tennessee and North Carolina to the north, and South Carolina to the east.

  5. Georgia / ˈdʒɔːrdʒə / ⓘ is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. Named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788.

  6. The state government of Georgia is the U.S. state governmental body established by the Georgia State Constitution. It is a republican form of government with three branches: the legislature, executive, and judiciary.

  7. An Enterprising Public Research Institution in the Heart of Atlanta. Blending academic rigor with a rich college experience since 1913, Georgia State University transforms the lives of students, advances the frontiers of knowledge and shapes future leaders.

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