Which fact provides the BEST evidence to support the conclusion that the Georgia General Assembly supported the belief that "an educated citizenry is essential to a free government" in the years following the American Revolution?
A) The General Assembly set aside 40,000 acres of public land for the University of Georgia in Athens in 1785.
B) Wesleyan Female College, one of the first women's colleges in the country, was established in Macon in 1839.
C) The state opened a penitentiary in 1817, and in 1842 an asylum for the insane was established at Milledgeville.
D) Most antebellum era Georgians believed that education was best left to individuals, rather than the government, to provide.