It resulted in a tax on sugar and molasses imported from the West Indies, upsetting Georgia colonists who relied heavily on the products.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
Elected president in 1828, this southern was hero is responsible for Indian Removal.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
100
A colony controlled directly by the King, which Georgia became in 1752.
What is royal colony?
100
An early method of land distribution which allowed for every white male to receive up to 1000 acreas of land.
What was the Headright System?
100
A slogan that explained why the colonists felt mistreated by the mother country, which became the battle cry of the revolutionary war.
What is "Taxation without representation!"?
200
To help pay for the debts accumulated during the French and Indian War, the British passed this act imposing a tax on newspaper, legal documents, and licenses.
What is Stamp Act?
200
This Indian nation was located entirely within the state of Georgia.
What was the Cherokee Nation?
200
The religion practiced by the majority of Georgians, taking after the mother country, during the colonial period.
What is the Anglican religion or the Church of England?
200
The system of land distribution that replaced the headright system.
What is the land lottery?
200
The name for the colonists fighting for liberty, ready to cut ties with Great Britain.
What is Patriots?
300
The law forcing British colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
The treaty that ceeded the remaining Creek lands to the U.S. government.
What is the Treaty of Indian Springs?
300
The first newspaper of the Georgia colony.
What was the Georgia Gazette?
300
An incident in which Georgia sold land it did not own to local companies.
What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?
300
An act of rebellion in which colonists dressed up like Indians and dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
400
This 1767 act placed taxes on tea, paper, and glass.
What is the Townshend Acts?
400
Though most Georgians sided against the Indian groups in Georgia, several white men joined the remaining Cherokee and made a last stand in present day Calhoun at what location?
What is New Echota?
400
The most profitable crops coming out of Georgia during the colonial period.
What were rice and indigo?
400
In 1785, it was chartered as a land grant university.
What is the University of Georgia?
400
A 1774 meeting of colonists to discuss the topic of independence to which Georgia did not send any representatives.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
The harsher set of laws passed by the British to punish the colonists for their rebellious behavior.
What were the Intollerable Acts?
500
The Creek chief who was murdered and scalped afer signing the Treaty of Inidan Springs.
Who was Chief William McIntosh?
500
Since most fun and games were prohibbited in early colonial history, what common gathering would allow colonists to socialize while getting farm work done.
What were cornhuskings?
500
The 1803 land purchase that doubled the size of the U.S.
What was the Louisianna Purchase?
500
The three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Who were Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton.