Statehood
He was the Cherokee chief who fought removal of his people on the Trail of Tears.
Who was Chief John Ross?
This increased the demand for land and slaves in the early 1800's.
What was the cotton gin?
The right of a state to declare a federal law invalid and unenforceable if it chooses. The CSA believed in nullification – mostly because the southern states did not agree with legislation enforcing high tariffs – and the possibility of ending slavery.
What is nullification?
Withdrawing from being a legal part of a nation.
What is seceding?
An agency established to first feed, clothe, house and find jobs for former slaves. The most lasting effect and important achievement was educating the newly freed slaves. It built thousands of schools all over the south and developed 3 colleges that are still in operation today.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
This was built and expanded during the 1830 in Georgia and led to the development of many cities.
What was the railroads?
The Supreme Court Justice who ruled in favor of the Cherokee and established Judicial Review )the power of the Supreme Court to invalidate a state or federal law).
Who was John Marshall?
This compromise was passed 1820. 2 states were admitted (one as a free state and another as a slave state), representation in Congress was even and the line 36.30 was drawn for future decisions about slavery.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The name of the plan to block southern ports to keep them from getting supplies.
What was the Anaconda Plan or Union Blockade?
A type of tenant farming where the tenant farmer pays the landowner with a portion of the crop and must purchase farming equipment from the farm owner on credit. This led to a cycle of poverty for decade in the south.
What was sharecropping?
The land distribution method that took place during the early 1800's seven times and distributed 75% of the land in Georgia.
What was the Land Lottery
The controversial Creek chief who was a U.S. war veteran and signed the Treaty of Indian Springs giving up the last Creek land in Georgia. He was killed for doing this.
Who was Chief William McIntosh?
In this compromise California entered as a Free State and the Fugitive Slave Act had to be enforced.
What was the Compromise of 1860?
Served as Vice President of the Confederacy though he tried to keep Georgia from seceding. Orphaned at 14, he put himself through Franklin College (UGA). He dominated politics for almost 50 years in Georgia and the U.S..
Who was Alexander Stephens?
The most lenient reconstruction plans on the south.
What were the Presidential Reconstruction Plans?
These are Georgia's capital in order.
What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville and Atlanta?
The Supreme Court case that said that Native American Reservations were not subject to state (Georgia) laws.
What was the Worcester v. Georgia case?
In this antebellum Supreme Court case, the Supreme Court ruled that if someone was born a slave they could never be free, even if they lived in a free state. They also ruled the slaves could not bring lawsuits because they were not U.S. citizens.
What was the Dred Scott Case?
This was a battle in 1864 that took place in Northwest Georgia. It was the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War and was one of the last Confederate victories.
What was the Battle of Chicamauga?
The most punitive reconstruction plan on the south.
What was the Congressional Reconstruction Plan?
Georgia largest political scandal which resulted in the loss of 2/3rds of its territory.
What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?
The convention when the U.S. Constitution was written.
What was the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
Georgia's proclamation accepting the measures of the compromise so long as the North complied with the Fugitive Slave Act and would no longer attempt to ban the expansion of slavery into new territories and states.
What was the Georgia Platform?
Battles that led from Chattanooga into Atlanta that raged for 4 months. Finally, the mayor of Atlanta surrendered the city on September 1st, 1864.
What was the Atlanta Campaign?
This Reconstruction Amendment ensured civil rights and equal protection of law to all United States citizens.
What was the 14th Amendment?