From Sea to Shining Sea
This Land is Your Land?
Land and Tech
Who Am I?
Georgia on My Mind...
100

Invention that made travel faster and helped get cotton from Georgia to manufacturing.

What are Railroads?

100
The physical removal of the Cherokees from their land in Georgia to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
100

It was discovered that this land policy was actually a fraud, where legislatures were bribed to pass the law.

What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?

100

"I am the person who wrote the charter to establish the University of Georgia."

Who is Abraham Baldwin?

100

This city served as the seat of government during Georgia colonial period.

What is Savannah?

200

This university was the first state-funded university in America.

What is the University of Georgia?

200
The United States President who signed the Indian Removal Act.
Andrew Jackson
200

Invention that increased the demand for slaves in Georgia

What is the Cotton Gin?

200
"I am the Creek Cherokee chief who signed the Treaty of Indian Springs that gave away the last Creek lands in Georgia."
William McIntosh
200

This is the estimated number of Indians, including many other tribes all over the United States, who were forced from their homelands.

What is 70,000?

300

This form of land distribution allowed all Georgians to have a chance to own land, not just the wealthy

What is a Land Lottery?

300
What were the two groups of Native Americans who lived in Georgia before Indian Removal?
Creeks & Cherokees
300

A land policy/act that sold 35 million acres of land to land companies for $500,000.

What is the Yazoo Land Act?

300
"I am the Cherokee Chief who took a petition to Congress to keep the Cherokee land in North GA, but was denied."
John Ross
300

What was Georgia's primary cash crop in the 1800s?

Cotton

400
Form of land distribution in which the male head of household had the right to up to 1,000 acres of land. Allotment depended on family size and make-up.
What is the Head Right System
400
The discovery of gold in this Georgia town caused conflict between the Cherokee and white miners.
What is Dahlonega?
400

This is one main reason why the state capital was moved to Atlanta.

What is because it was a transportation hub with railroads?

400

My case was brought before the Supreme Court, which allowed me to live with the Cherokee on their land.

Who is Samuel Worcester

400

This is our state's current capital.

What is Atlanta?

500

This land distribution program had a negative impact on the Creek and Cherokee by removing them from their land

What is The Land Lottery?

500
Supreme Court case that declared that Georgia laws did not apply inside the Cherokee nation.
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
500

This was a machine that more efficiently separated the seeds from the usable material of the cotton plant.

What is the cotton gin?

500
"I ruled in favor of Worcester and the Cherokee Nation in the case of Worcester vs. Georgia. President Andrew Jackson said that since I made the decision, I should enforce it...what a jerk!"
John Marshall
500

List Georgia's capitals in order:

Savannah Augusta Louisville Milledgeville Atlanta

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