Sacred Honor Study Guide, Colony 13: Georgia

Georgia was the last colony to join the revolutionary movement, and for a while it looked as though it might not join at all. Founded as a debt-free, anti-plantation experiment, it had become a plantation society by the time independence came. This is the final colony, the last three of the fifty-six.

This guide introduces them. Button Gwinnett left almost no documents, was killed in a duel by a fellow patriot less than a year after signing, and now has one of the rarest autographs of any signer. Lyman Hall, a minister turned physician, arrived in Congress before Georgia had authorized him to be there, sat unable to vote for nearly a year, and as governor set in motion the first state-chartered university in America. George Walton was an orphaned carpenter's apprentice who taught himself law and appears to have been one of the few Southern signers who never owned enslaved people.

The Hero of Your Story moment belongs to Lyman Hall, the man whose conviction that the cause was right did not wait for official permission.

INSIDE THIS GUIDE:

• The Georgia Colony Introduction
• Profiles of Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton
• A Primary Source Encounter in the founders' own words
• Explorer Questions (grades four through six) and Challenger Questions (grades seven through twelve)
• Vocabulary Builder, Discussion Questions, and a hands-on Activity
• A Faith Connection drawn from the colony's story
• The Hero of Your Story moment and a student reflection page
• A closing word for families completing the full thirteen-colony journey

Honest history, devotional depth, and real conversation for your family or classroom. A branded navy-and-gold PDF in the Sacred Honor series.

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