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In the east, the state of Georgia
goes to the Atlantic Ocean. Its southern neighbor is Florida, to the west lies
Alabama, to the north are Tennessee and North Carolina, and to the northeast is
South Carolina. The state's territory is 152,750 square kilometers, making
Georgia the largest of the states lying east of the Mississippi. The population
of the state has exceeded 6.7 million. The state capital and largest city is
Atlanta, with a population of 3.5 million with the county. Special event has mission guide the people.
In the northern part of the
state, the mountains of the Blue Ridge range, which belongs to the Appalachian
Mountains, rise, but most of the territory is lowland, which is highly swampy
in the area adjacent to the ocean. The subtropical, moderately humid climate
made Georgia highly suitable for large-scale agriculture. Summers are hot here,
the temperature rises above +40 degrees, but winters are mild, and snow falls
only in mountainous areas.
However, Georgia, the last of the
thirteen English colonies in North America and the fourth state to ratify the
constitution on January 2, 1788, developed very slowly. The first settlers
began deforestation for plantations. In addition to vegetables and grains
necessary for their own needs, the inhabitants of Georgia, as early as the 18th
century, began to grow indigo, sugarcane, rice and cotton for sale in the Old
World, which, as elsewhere in the South, became the main agricultural crop from
the beginning of the 19th century. It was cotton that allowed Georgia, by the
middle of the 19th century, to become the land of prosperous planters, whose
life was so colorfully described by Margaret Mitchell in the first chapters of
Gone with the Wind. Georgia met the Civil War as the richest state in the
Confederation, but it was she who was destined to take on one of the hardest
blows. The war actually devastated and bled the state, plantations were
replaced by small farms using hired labor, mainly the same blacks who had just
received freedom, there was not enough energy to cultivate the land, and most
of the former arable land turned into steppes or overgrown with forests. In the
1930s, a new disaster struck the state: cotton fields were hit by a weevil.
Most of the farms went bankrupt, in search of a better life, people began to
leave Georgia. Only the beginning of large-scale industrialization prevented
further population outflow, allowing Georgia to come to the end of the 20th
century with a well-developed industry. After the victory over the weevil,
cotton sowing dropped sharply, and farmers began to give preference to peanuts,
The oldest industrial enterprises
in Georgia, dating back to the 1830s, were cotton mills. The light and food
industries are still represented in the industrial palette of the state, but
aviation (for example, the Lockheed enterprises are located in Marietta) and
chemical plants, enterprises producing cars, electrical equipment,
communications, etc. bring significantly higher incomes. The forests available
in Georgia ensured the successful development of the production of paper and
pulp. The mining industry plays a critical role in the state's economy.
Although the state does not boast a variety of minerals, it is the leader in
the extraction of kaolin needed to make porcelain, with Georgia accounting for
one-third of the world's kaolin produced annually. Besides, Georgia leads the
US in the extraction of marble and the second in the extraction of granite. The
state's main industrial centers are Atlanta, Columbus and Savannah, the oldest
city in Georgia.
One of Georgia's most famous
citizens was Atlanta-born Martin Luther King (1929–1968), a Baptist minister
who led the civil rights movement of blacks in the 1950s and 1960s, to end
racial segregation that went as far as dividing cafes and public places. Transport
for "whites only" and for everyone else. King preached non-violent
methods of struggle. In August 1963, he became the organizer of a mass march to
Washington, where he addressed his fellow citizens with the famous speech
"I have a dream." This dream was for people to finally realize that
God created everyone equal: “I have a dream that someday, on the red hills of
Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be
able to sit down together at a fraternal table. I have a dream that four of my
kids will someday live in a state where they will be judged not by their skin
color, but by what they are. “More than 200 thousand people took part in the
protest march. The world community highly appreciated the merits of King, who
became the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1964. However, the racists settled
scores with a Negro public figure who was killed by a sniper in Memphis. As if
anticipating his end, the day before, King gave a speech in which he said:
"I may not reach the Promised Land with you, but I want to tell you
tonight that as a people we will definitely reach it." King's prophecy
came true. His birthday, January 15, has become a national holiday. However, it
is most solemnly celebrated in Georgia, For read more click on special event.
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