Social Institutions
Land Policies
Technological Developments
Disenfrancised Groups
Native American Removals
100
How did the University of Georgia begin?
What is the land for the college was donated by the federal government.
100
The first method Georgia’s government used to distribute land was by
What is giving it away through the headright system
100
How did Eli Whitney’s invention influence the growth of slavery in the South?
What is it increased the profits from growing cotton.
100
Which treaty required the Creek to give up all their land east of the Oconee River?
What is the Treaty of New York
100
The forced migration of GA’s Cherokees to reservations west of the Mississippi River came to be known as the
What is the Trail of Tears
200
Which church sent circuit riders to frontier settlements to provide monthly services?
What is Methodist
200
The Yazoo Land Fraud was considered the worst political scandal in GA history because
What is land speculators bribed members of the General Assembly to sell public land to them for low prices.
200
Atlanta at one time was called Terminus because
What is because all the railroads ended there
200
Why was William McIntosh, a Creek Chief, murdered by his own people?
What is he signed a treaty giving up the last of the Creek lands in Georgia to the federal government.
200
Chief John Ross signed which treaty?
What is the Treaty of Indian Springs
300
Why was Louisville chosen as Georgia’s capital in 1786?
What is Louisville played an important role in the American Revolution.
300
What were the requirements for those receiving land from the Head Right System?
What is the head of a family received 200 acres of land plus 50 acres for each of his family members.
300
Which railroad became the primary railroad in Georgia in the 1830’s?
What is the Western and Atlantic
300
The syllabary is different from an alphabet because
What is they symbols stand for whole syllables.
300
The Trail of Tears resulted in the removal of the Native American from Georgia to
What is Oklahoma
400
By 1860, the two largest church denominations in Georgia were
What is Methodist and Baptist Churches
400
The final result of the Yazoo Land Fraud was
What is the national government took over the Yazoo lands, paid $1,250,000 to GA and agreed to remove all Indians from GA.
400
When cotton production increased due to the cotton gin, what other population of individuals increased in population?
What are slaves
400
The capital of the Cherokee nation was
What is New Echota
400
How many Treaties were signed to remove the Native Americans from Georgia?
What are two treaties.
500
What Episcopal Church began under Bishop Richard Allen?
What is African Methodist Episcopal
500
What system replaced the headright system as a way of allocating land?
What is land lottery
500
The chief cash crop in Georgia before the Civil War was
What is Cotton
500
In 1832, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state law did not apply to the Cherokee nation in Georgia, and that the Cherokee could not be removed from their land. Why was this decision not honored?
What is President Andrew Jackson refused to carry out the Supreme Court’s decision
500
Why were the Cherokee and the Creek removed from Dahlonega?
What is the discovery of gold.
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