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Title Cornerstones of Georgia history : documents that formed the state / edited by Thomas A. Scott
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages)
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Spain and the Native Americans: The Guale Revolt, 1597 -- 2. Cherokees and Creeks: Traditional Cultures and the Anglo-Saxon Encounter -- 3. Trustees and Malcontents: The Colonial Controversy over Slavery and Georgia's Future -- 4. Patriots and Loyalists: Georgia on the Eve of the Revolution -- 5. The State of Georgia and the Cherokees: The Debate over Indian Removal -- 6. Slavery in Antebellum Georgia -- 7. Secessionists and Cooperationists: The Decision to Leave the Union
8. The Federal Occupation of Georgia, 1864: Perspectives of North Georgia Women9. Reconstruction in Georgia -- 10. Postwar Poverty: Fault of the North or the South? -- 11. Jim Crow Georgia and Its Leaders, Black and White -- 12. The Leo Frank Case -- 13. Georgia's Rejection of Woman Suffrage -- 14. Crisis in Agriculture: The Great Migration, Boll Weevil Invasion, and Great Depression -- 15. Moving toward the Mainstream: Georgia in the 1940's -- 16. The Integration of Public Schools and Colleges
17. The Rise of a Future President: The Gubernatorial Inauguration of Jimmy Carter18. Economic Development and Quality of Life: The Debate over a Hazardous Waste Facility for Taylor County -- Appendix: Questions to Consider -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SUBJECT Georgia -- History -- Sources
Subject Georgia.
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Scott, Thomas Allan
ISBN 9780820340227
0820340227