Five states were added during the 20th century. Alaska and Hawaii were the last states to join the Union -- both in Many people mistakenly believe that the United States Constitution was created after the Revolution.
But, the country was first governed under the Articles of Confederation, drafted in the same year as Yorktown. The Articles proved insufficient to meet the challenges the country faced, which led to a push to replace it with a new document.
Each state of the US is an individual entity as well as an inseparable part of the country. The 13 colonies that first became part of the Union were British territories founded in the 17th and 18th centuries.
They fought for, and won independence from Britain in and went on to form The Thirteen Colonies. The colonies became part of the United States in with the merging of New Hampshire as the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution. Each state was formally accepted as a member of the Union once it ratified the Constitution.
In addition, several hundred white and 3, Black Georgians enlisted for the Union cause. Some of the most important battles of the war were fought on Georgia soil, including Chickamauga , Resaca , and Kennesaw Mountain , while the battles of Peachtree Creek, Bald Hill Atlanta , Ezra Church, and Jonesboro were significant turning points during the Atlanta campaign of The Georgia legislature , however, following a directive from Governor Joseph E.
Bartow , Henry L. Cobb , Wilson Lumpkin , Eugenius A. Nisbet , and Robert Toombs , advocated secession. Despite the best efforts of such antisecessionists as Alexander Stephens and Benjamin Hill , the die was cast. The secession convention vote on January 19, , took Georgia out of the Union as expected, though by a closer vote than many had anticipated.
Infantry regiments were authorized, and the convention appointed Bartow, the Cobb brothers, Nisbet, Toombs, Stephens, and four others as delegates to a convention of other seceded states to meet in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4.
At Montgomery, the delegates organized the Confederate States of America, and Georgians played an important role in creating the provisional Confederate government. Howell Cobb served as president of the convention, and Thomas R. Cobb was the main architect of the Confederate Constitution. Toombs and Stephens were prominent in the proceedings, but to their disappointment the presidency of the new nation fell to Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. Still, Stephens won the vice presidency, and Toombs accepted the office of secretary of state.
After secession, most Georgians hoped to avoid war and peacefully leave the Union, but the firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, on April 12, made conflict inevitable. At first, Georgians experienced the war on far-off battlefields in Virginia and Tennessee. A Union naval force under Admiral Samuel F.
Du Pont, commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, established a base of operations on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in the fall of , to launch attacks along the south Atlantic coast and to disrupt international Confederate trade.
Lee to Savannah to organize the defense of Georgia and upper Florida. Despite the blockade, the Confederacy hoped that European demand for cotton would also bring support for the southern cause. These hopes were unfounded, however, as anti-slavery sentiment in England kept the British navy from becoming involved. In April Union spy James J. Andrews led twenty saboteurs in a daring raid. Western and Atlantic Railroad officials pursued them and, after a nearly ninety-mile chase, caught the Andrews gang near Ringgold before they could significantly damage the rail line.
Confederate soldiers captured most of the saboteurs, and Andrews and seven of his raiders were hanged as spies in Atlanta. A year later, a Union cavalry force under Colonel Abel D. Streight attempted to cut the Western and Atlantic rail line near Rome , but Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest captured the Union force before it could do any real damage.
Meanwhile, the hardships and realities of war began to wear on Georgians. In April the Confederate government in Richmond initiated conscription to replenish depleted ranks. This was the first national draft in American history. Governor Brown argued that the draft was unconstitutional and despotic. He fought it and tried to maintain control of the state militia and other state troops. As the age limits of the draft were expanded, Brown protested anew.
Despite attacks from pro-Davis nationalists, Brown remained popular and won a fourth straight term as governor in But Brown was not the only Georgia statesman battling the Davis administration. Toombs had quickly become bored as secretary of state and left to command a military brigade in Virginia, but he soon resigned and spent the rest of the war also denouncing the Davis administration.
Even moderate Herschel V. Simons Island in Georgia, effectively ending Spanish claims to the territory of Georgia. Georgia, rich in export potential, was one of the most prosperous British colonies in America and was thus slower than the other colonies to resent the oppressive acts of the Parliament and King George III.
However, by the outbreak of the Revolutionary War , Georgian Patriots had organized, and delegates were sent to the Second Continental Congress. During the war, Georgia was heavily divided between Loyalists and Patriots, and the British soon held most of the state. Savannah served as a key British base for their southern war operations, and the grim four-year British occupation won many Georgians over to the Patriot cause.
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