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Who was the founder of the University of Georgia?
Who is Abraham Baldwin?
In this system of land distribution the head of household could receive 200-100 acres based on the family size.
What is the headright system?
This person signed the Treaty of Indian Springs, giving up remaining Creek land in Georgia.
Who is William McIntosh?
This invention dramatically increased the amount of cotton grown.
What is the cotton gin?
This act of fraud occurred when legislators made deals to benefit themselves instead of the citizens they were supposed to represent.
What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?
After the American Revolution this university was established.
What is the University of Georgia?
This type of land distribution system was created to prevent land fraud.
What is the land lottery?
During this event the Cherokee were forced to leave their home in Georgia (and other eastern states), and walk a journey of 700-800 miles to their new home in Oklahoma. More than 4,000 Cherokee men, women, and children died from the harsh weather, disease, and lack of food.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The cotton gin caused this crop to no longer be number one.
What is tobacco?
This was the main reason that Georgia's capital was moved four times after the America Revolution.
What was the changing population center of the state?
This was considered a unique quality of the University of Georgia.
What is America's first public university?
The land allocation system was based on "first come, first served".
What is the headright system?
This president signed the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Farmer needed quicker ways to move cotton to the textile mills and overseas so they started using a different transportation mode to increase profits.
What are railroads?
This is a lasting result of the headright system in Georgia.
What is that Georgia is divided into uneven shapes?
The University of Georgia was founded on this "revolutionary" idea.
What is that not just the wealthy had a right to education?
This land allocation system gave everyone an equal chance.
What is the land lottery?
This supreme court case said that state did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land.
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
This grew in the south due to cotton becoming the number one crop.
What is slavery?
The four capitals prior to Atlanta.
What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville and Milledgeville?
This was the University of Georgia's first mascot.
What is a goat?
In this system(s) land was not distributed to African Americans.
What is the headright and land lottery system?
The supreme court justice that voted in favor of Worcester vs. Georgia.
Who is John Marshall?
This is the city that became the railroad hub in middle georgia.
What was Terminus?
The order in which the capitals of Georgia were established.
What is Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville and Atlanta?