What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?
It distributed Native American lands to new settlers.
100
What name was given to the forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia
The Trail of Tears
100
What country controlled the land west of the Mississippi River in the antebellum period?
Spain
100
Based on number of employees, which is the largest branch of both federal and state governments?
Executive
100
Which new political party was born in the campaign of 1854?
Republican
200
What was the most important mechanical invention to Georgia’s economy in the late 1700’s and early 1800s
The Cotton Gin
200
What legislation allowed Georgia to push the Creek and the Cherokee out of the state and to seize their lands?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
200
What definition explains the Missouri Compromise?
It maintained a balance of power in the Senate between slave and free states
200
The system by which the national level and the state level of government share power over the same territory and groups of people is known as:
federalism
200
What was unique about the presidential election of 1860?
It was the first time a candidate won the election with votes from only one section of country
300
What was the most damaging economic result of the Yazoo land fraud for Georgia?
Georgia lost money it could have made from selling lands west of the Chattahoochee River.
300
The belief that the westward expansion of the United States to the Pacific Ocean was inevitable is known as
manifest destiny
300
What is a correct statement about the Compromise of 1850?
California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state with no slavery.
300
The most important power of the U.S. Supreme Court is the power
of judicial review over actions of both the legislative and executive branches of government
300
After the 1820s, from which country did most of the land taken during westward expansion come
Spain
400
What system gave thirty million acres of land in Georgia west of the Oconee Riverand white males in Georgia over the age of 21 could buy a chance to spin a wheel and win land?
land lottery
400
What period in American history is represented by the Line of the Proclamation of 1763?
After the French and Indian War
400
The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Law was to
require the return of runaway slaves to their owners
400
Why did the authors of the Articles of Confederation want a federal government with little power?
They had just freed themselves from the domination of a strong, powerful government in Great Britain
400
What divisive issue at the 1787 Constitutional Convention was settled by the Great Compromise?
Concern over representation in Congress
500
What was George Gist’s ( Sequoyah) major contribution to the Cherokee culture?
He developed a syllabary so the Cherokee could have a written language
500
What natural border did the Proclamation Line of 1763 follow?
The Appalachian Mountains
500
What was the organized escape plan for southern slaves fleeing their owners?
The underground railroad
500
How many members does each state have in the U.S. Senate
Two
500
What was the political issue between the North and South that differed greatly in terms of their views of the power that the federal government should have over state governments.