Unit 4 Graphic Organizer #3
SS8CG1, SS8H5: Citizenship in Georgia
Rights
Checks and Balances:
• Ability of 1 branch to check power
of another branch
Why did the framers of the U.S. and GA
constitution separate power and include a
system of checks and balances?
Checks and balances ensure that no
one branch becomes too powerful
Rights of GA Citizens
• What is the purpose of rights?
Rights keep institutions from
harming ore taking freedom of the
people
• Where are the rights of GA
citizens listed?
GA bill of rights in GA Constitution
Rights of GA citizens include:
1. Life, Liberty, & Property
2. Freedom of Speech/Press
3. Right to keep/bear arms
4. Right to trial
5. No banishment/whipping for a crime
6. No imprisonment for debt
7. Right to fishing/hunting
Responsibilities of GA citizens:
Voting, Paying Taxes, Obeying Laws
Voting & Parties
Voting in Georgia
• To vote in GA you must be…
__Registered___.
• Registration Requirements:
1. A U.S. Citizen
2. Legal GA res. in county you wish to vote
3. 17 ½ yrs. to register 18 yrs. @ time of vote
4. NOT serving sent. crime of moral turpitude
5. NOT Judicially determined to be mentally
incompetent
Political Parties
• GA has 2 major parties
• Democrats and Republicans
• Voters don’t have to join party
• Diff. parties, diff. interests/ideas
• Candidate’s job is to turn ideas into
policy
Voting in Georgia
• GA has primary and general elections
• Gen. Assembly elected every 2 yrs.
• Gov. & Lt. Gov. elected every 4 yrs.
• elections org/operated by SOS office
Georgia Pledge (3 main principles)
I pledge allegiance to the GA flag and to the
principles for which is stands, wisdom, justice,
and moderation.
Expansion
Establishment
University of Georgia (1785)
• first state charted university in the U.S.
• established by Abraham Baldwin
Louisville
Why did GA move the capital?
to stay in the center of the state’s population
GA’s 5 Capital Cities:
1. Savannah
2. Augusta
4. Milledgeville 5. Atlanta
3. Louisville
Baptist/Methodist Churches
circuit preachers spread religion throughout
Georgia in the late 1700s and early 1800s
Land Policies
Headright System
• first attempt at distributing land in Georgia
• head of each family received 100 acres, 50 for
each additional family member
Land Lottery
• divided into smaller square lots
• names put in barrels
• those drawn called “fortunate drawers”
Yazoo Land Fraud
1. Four land companies bribed the General
Assembly members
2. bought 35M acres in West Georgia
3. paid 2¢ an acre
4. angered many Georgians
5. General Assembly repealed d the Yazoo Act
6. burned the law on the capitol grounds “fire from
heaven”