Westward Expansion
These 2 new technological developments helped change Georgian's lives during the early 19th Century.
What are the Cotton Gin and Railroad?
This compromise created the 36 30 line, banning slavery in the North while also adding one slave and one free state to the Union.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This was the first shots fired of the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
Describe Lincoln/Johnson's Reconstruction Plan.
What was 10% pledge of loyalty, abolish slavery (13th Amendment), and rewrite state constitutions?
This person is described by the following statements: I. He passed the Indian Removal Act. II. He served as President of the US. III. He is credited with Native American removal.
Who is President Andrew Jackson?
This was the Creek chief who sold all remaining Creek land without tribal approval.
Who was William McIntosh?
Define Nullify. How did this relate to the eventual secession of the South.
What was making something invalid. SC threatened to secede from the Union due to Andrew Jackson's tariff on British Goods.
Civil War prison camp located in GA that held Union prisoners of war.
What was Andersonville?
This amendment defined citizenship and granted it to the newly freed African-Americans.
What was the 14th Amendment?
Define assimilation. List some ways that the Cherokee were willing to assimilate.
What is becoming similar to another group? What were written language, newspaper & constitution, plantations.
This was Georgia's 3rd Capital.
What is Louisville?
This was the ruling in the Dredd Scott Case.
What was slaves were seen as property and free African-Americans were not considered citizens, therefore had no right to sue/use the court system.
Gen. Sherman's path from Atlanta to Savannah, using "total war' along his path.
What was Sherman's March to the Sea?
List out 2 ways African-Americans were disenfranchised at this time.
What are Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests?
This event causes Georgians to become desperate to remove the Cherokee from Georgia and eventually leads to the passage of the Indian Removal Act.
What was the Dahlonega Gold Rush?
Describe Worcester v. GA.
Ruled in favor of the Cherokee. "Independent Sovereign Nation". President Jackson would not enforce ruling.
This act allowed Popular Sovereignty to be in effect in this territory. Describe what popular sovereignty is and what act allowed this.
What is the people get to vote to decide on the issue of slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The 2nd bloodiest battle of the Civil War and the largest ever fought in Georgia.
What was the Battle of Chickamauga?
Describe how African-American legislators in GA were REMOVED from office during the Reconstruction era.
What were the KKK framed/forced them out and they were voted out by Southern Democrats?
This was the year that GA Seceded.
When is 1861?
These were 2 unintended consequences of the Cotton Gin in Georgia.
What are More slaves and a specialization on cotton?
This event was the "final flame" that led to immediate Southern Secession.
What was the Election of 1860?
This made the war about slavery. It also prevented European countries from providing the Confederacy much needed supplies.
What was the Emancipation Proclomation?
Describe Sharecropping and how it led to a cycle of poverty.
What is poor farmer with zero tools/equipment would rent everything in order to farm. The Debt would get so large that they would be tied to the land
This Georgia statesman disagreed with secession warning that a Civil War would lead to the economic ruin of the south. He eventually becomes VP of the Confederacy.
Who is Alexander Stephens?