Unit 3 SS8H4abc
"Education, Land, & Technology"
"Education, Land, & Technology"
This was Abraham Baldwin's philosophy for the creation of the University of Georgia.
What is UGA was created for all people regardless of social class?
Who is Eli Whitney?
This Creek Chief accepted bribery money and signed the Second Treaty of Indian Springs ultimately ceding all remaining Creek land in Georgia.
Who is Chief William McIntosh?
A tax placed on goods coming into a county.
What is a Tariff?
This was a main point of contention amongst "Northern" and "Southern" states, especially when new states were added to the Union with Western Expansion.
What is Slavery?
This last Georgia land policy led the United States government to eventually force complete Indian removal in part to appease impatient settlers.
What is the Land Lotteries?
This was an early name for the city of Atlanta; in 1837, this was the site where the end of the Western and Atlantic Railroad "terminated"
What is Terminus?
President Andrew Jackson ignored the Supreme Court and Constitution which eventually led to this event.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The rights and powers held by individual states instead of the national or federal government?
What is states rights?
The Georgia Platform would only accept the terms of the Compromise of 1850 if it included this policy.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The cities in order of Georgia's Capital movement? Remember SALMA.
What is Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta?
Which President stated "John Marshall (the Supreme Court) has made his decision; now let him enforce it"
President Andrew Jackson
What technology was instrumental in the removal of the Cherokee in 1838 and was related to the appointment of Atlanta as Georgia’s capital in 1868?
What are railroads?
This is the process of making a law no longer valid or binding.
What is Nullification?
Before the compromises, these two major items eventually led to the start of the Civil War.
What is nullification and state's rights?
An unintended consequence of this type of technology resulted in the increase of slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
Act signed into law that require the removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw,Creek, and Seminole to Indian territory.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A rapid increase of settlers to Georgia sparked by the discovery of gold near this town was another cause of pushing Native Americans out of North Georgia.
What is Dahlonega ?
When a state formally withdraws from the United States.
What is Secession?
This historical event decided by the Supreme Court stated that slaves must be returned to their owners and all free blacks were not American citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This was Georgia's 2nd land policy that involved the illegal purchase of lands west of the state which also involved bribery.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
A system in which up to 200 acres of land were granted to individuals who were the heads of households.
What is the headright system?
Landmark Supreme Court case which declared that the Cherokee were sovereign and not subject to the laws of the United States.
What is Worcester v. Georgia ?
The Idea that People have the right to decide important government issues for themselves.
What is Popular Soverignty?
This significant event was the last major cause that led the south to finally secede from the Union in which the state of South Carolina led the secession movement.
What is the Election of 1860?