Coach Book Lesson: 8, Page 70/71 Text Book: 186-187

Name______Date______Per.____ Page 1 Essential Question: What was the Great Awakening and what educational opportunities where in Antebellum Georgia? SS8H3 Coach Book Lesson: 8, page 70/71 Text Book: 186-187 Reading Comprehension Questions (8 min): Read page 70 in your Coach Book and answer the following questions.

1) During the period from 1790 to 1830, the ______swept across the United States and especially the South (known as the ______) which led to an increase in religious participation. 2) This renewed interest in religion manifested in the ______and camp meetings where thousands of people from all surrounding areas met in outdoor open air shelters to hear traveling preachers. 3) The Georgia Baptist Convention was formed at this time to unite ______Baptists (who did not like mission work or Sunday school) and ______Baptists (who belied in mission work and furthering education). 4) Today, the Georgia Baptist Convention joined the ______and is now the countries largest protestant group. 5) Anglicans (a large group in Georgia after the American Revolution) wanted to separate from the ______but not English tradition. 6) In 1789, the Anglican Church became the ______and is known as the Episcopalian Church today. Graphic Organizer (5 min): Let’s watch a summary of what we read while we complete this graphic organizer.

What was the Great Awakening? What was the Bible Belt?

Where was the Great Awakening? What did people call each other during the Great Awakening?

Describe a revival. What was the main effect of the Great Awakening?

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Extension activity (10 min): The Great Awakening encouraged reform issues that would have an impact over the following years. Reforms such as temperance, women's suffrage, and the crusade to abolish slavery can find it’s roots in this religious movement. See if you can identify each movement and answer some questions regarding the pictures you see. Temperance

1. From what you see in the picture, what can you guess is the Temperance Movement? 2. Why do you think people would take this position? 3. Is this different that the views of early Georgia colonists 70 years earlier? Explain. 4. What can you guess is the opinion of the man in the other picture regarding temperance? 5. After reading about the picture, can you think of any other ways in which immigrant groups challenge iour opinion regarding issues of morality? Give an example.

Women’s Suffrage

1. What is suffrage? 2. What is the woman sitting on and why does it make her so sad? 3. What is on the woman’s head? What does this signify? 4. What does the caption say? 5. How would you feel knowing that your sphere of influence begins and ends at the stove as the cartoon suggests? Explain.

Abolition of Slavery

1. You have seen this first picture before, but read it again. Describe the picture. 2. Now that you are familiar with the Great Awakening, does it surprise you that this was the Abolitionist symbol in the Antebellum Era? Explain. 3. What about the picture below. Describe what you see. 4. What do you think a person who is caught up in the Great Awakening might feel about this image? 5. Why then, do the people of the “Bible Belt” hold so tightly to the idea of slavery even though it is counter to the religious movement of this time?

Reading Comprehension (5 minutes) Page 71 in the coach book.

1. One of the first things that the state of Georgia did after the American Revolution was to open a______.

2. The state set aside a plot of land and ______wrote a charter for the University of Georgia.

3. This founder (and signer of the Constitution) believed that had a duty to provide ______to all its citizens and believed this University should be affordable.

4. During the Antebellum Era, colleges were ______and too expensive for the average person . 5. The University of Georgia (chartered to be an affordable institution of learning) held its first classes in ______as the first ______University in the United States.

UGA Assignment (10 minutes)

Brief History of UGA When the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 27, ______, Georgia became the first state to charter a state-supported university. In 1784 the ______had set aside 40,000 acres of land to endow a college or seminary of learning. At the first meeting of the board of trustees, held in Augusta on February 13, 1786, ______was selected president of the university. A native of Connecticut and a graduate of ______University, Baldwin -- who had come to Georgia in 1784 -- drafted the charter adopted by the General Assembly. The university was actually established in ______when a committee of the board of trustees selected a land site. ______, later a governor of the state, purchased and gave to the board of trustees the chosen tract of 633 acres on the banks of the Oconee River in northeast Georgia. ______was named president of the university and work was begun on the first building, originally called ______College in honor of Benjamin Franklin and now known as Old College. The university graduated its first class in ______.