The state was devastated during the war, and after the abolition of slavery the plantation system was replaced by tenant farming, which still focused on traditional agricultural products such as cotton, tobacco, peanuts, and grain crops.
The six venomous snakes found in the state are the coral snake, the water moccasin, or cottonmouth, the copperhead, the pygmy rattlesnake, timber or canebreak rattlesnake, and the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake.
The principal officers of the executive branch are the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, comptroller general, treasurer, commissioner of agriculture, commissioner of labor, and state superintendent of schools.
GEORGIA, one of the South Atlantic states of the U.S., bounded on the N by Tennessee and North Carolina, on the E by South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean, on the S by Florida, and on the W by Alabama.
State constitutional amendments may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of the legislature or by a constitutional convention; to take effect, an amendment must be ratified by a majority of the persons voting on the issue in a general election.
Atlanta, the state capital, became the leading financial and transportation hub of the Southeast, with one of the country's busiest commercial airports and, by 2000, a metropolitan area with a population exceeding 4 million.
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