For our Posterity: The Creation of the U.S. Constitution and Georgia’s Role in Securing the Dream of Liberty

Course participants will gain a better understanding of the Constitutional Convention and the role Georgians played in the creation and ratification of the most important document in American history. The course will explore several questions: What led to the 1787 Constitutional Convention? What was the Constitutional Convention and how did it work? Who were the Georgia delegates and what role did they play? What were the major issues debated at the Constitutional Convention? How did the states react to the proposed document?

Module 1 The 1787 Constitutional Convention
Unit 1 Overview of the 1787 Constitutional Convention  
Unit 2 The Articles of Confederation and the Need for a Constitutional Convention  
Unit 3 Delegates at the Constitutional Convention  
Unit 4 Major Debates of the Constitutional Convention  
Module 2 Georgians at the Constitutional Convention
Unit 1 Georgia's Delegates  
Unit 2 William Few  
Unit 3 Abraham Baldwin  
Module 3 Drafting the United States Constitution
Unit 1 Process of Drafting the United States Constitution  
Unit 2 George Washington's Annotated Copy of a Draft of the U.S. Constitution  
Unit 3 United States Constitution Draft Annotated by Abraham Baldwin  
Module 4 The States React to the New Constitution
Unit 1 States React to the Proposed Constitution  
Unit 2 Lachlan McIntosh Reacts to the U.S. Constitution  
Unit 3 Ratifying the Constitution  
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