Regions of Georgia
smallest region in GA
Appalachian Plateau
Land distribution policy where people payed to be put in a drawing for a certain amount of land.
Land Lottery
Name all 5 of Georgia's capitols
hint: SALMA
S-Savannah
A-Augusta
L-Louisville
M-Milledgeville
A- Atlanta
President who signed this act
Andrew Jackson
John Brown
Contains low open valleys and narrow ridges
Ridges and valley
40 million acres of land were sold for $500,000 to four land companies
Yazoo Land fraud
This man was the first president of UGA
Abraham Baldwin
John Ross
Compromise of 1820
________ was made a slave state so ________ was made free
Missouri....Maine
Brasstown Bald is found here
This Land distribution policy gave land to white men over 21 and to people who fought during the Revolution. It went corrupt quickly.
Headright system
Why did Ga's capitols move west?
Something along the lines of :
To stay in the center of the population
Chief who was killed by his people for betraying them for giving up their land.
William McIntosh
Who won the Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
1/2 of the states population lives here.
piedmont
What two states were later formed from the land sold in Yazoo land fraud
Alabama and Mississippi
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
Why did people even want their land?
GOLD!!!! (Dahlonega Gold rush)
A group of prisoners known as _______ terrorized other prizoners
"the raiders"
Covers 3/5 of the state
Coastal plains
What did the land companies do that was illegal during the Yazoo land fraud?
Bribed the General Assembly
How did the invention of the Cotton Gin impact slavery
Something along the lines of ;
It didn't decrease, instead slaves worked more than ever...
John Marshall
At 4:30 am __________ fires the first shots of the Civil War
Confederacy