What is the name of the Confederate prison used to hold Union prisoners?
Andersonville
100
A notorious scandal that created bitterness against the federal government on the part of many Georgians because they resented the Supreme Court striking down a law.
Yazoo Land Fraud
100
What was the biggest issue between the North and the South? The major cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
100
What is called when Georgians gambled for land?
Land lotteries
200
Who was known for creating a written language for the Cherokee tribe?
Sequoyah
200
What invention greatly impacted farming. It separated seeds from cotton much quicker than by hand.
The cotton gin
200
Why did the South succeed the Union?
The North was industrializing and eliminating slavery. The North was also requesting taxes from the Britain in an attempt to make more money.
200
Who won the Civil War?
The Union beats the Confederacy
200
What are States' rights ?
The right for a state to govern themselves
300
Which Creek chief worked with Gov. Troup in the signing of the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825?
William McIntosh
300
Name at least two new industries during this time.
Textile Mills and Railroads
300
White males who were considered head of the family were granted the right to a certain amount of land
Headright System
300
What is the name of the document that was created during the Civil War that freed slaves in the Confederate States?
The Emancipation Proclamation
300
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free. Any land north of the 42,40 line was free territory.
400
Who led the Creeks in resisting white expansion?
Chief Alexander McGillivray
400
What occurred in North Georgia, on Cherokee territory, that caused many white settlers to flood their land?
Gold rush of 1829.
400
What is the name of the man who became vice president of the Confederacy when the South succeeds the Union?
Alexander Stephens
400
Bloodiest 3 day battle of the war.
Gettysburg
400
What happened in the Dred Scot case?
Answers may vary
500
What is the name of the President that removed the Indians AND what was their journey out West called?
Trail of Tears
500
What document was created that gave up all Creek lands to the state of Georgia.
Treaty of Indian Springs
500
What happened in the Nullification crisis?
It claimed that state authority could "nullify" national laws. In this instance, S.C wanted to nullify paying taxes because their state could not effectively compete with the North.
500
Name at least two methods the Union used during the war to destroy the South.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Union blockade of Confederate goods
Atlanta Campaign
500
What is significant about the Kansas_Nebraska Act.
The law said that these areas could vote on whether or not to have slaves (popular sovereignty). The law basically overturned the Missouri Compromise and led to a civil war in Kansas between pro and anti slavery forces.