Invention that made travel faster and helped in the westward expansion of the United States.
What are Railroads?
100
The physical removal of the Cherokees from their land in Georgia to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
100
According to "Yankees", what is the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
100
"I am the Cherokee Indian that created the syllabary which allowed my people to communicate through writing for the first time."
Sequoyah
100
What event caused the Chattahoochee River to become Georgia's western border?
Yazoo Land Fraud
200
The idea that it was God's plan for the United States to stretch from "sea to shining sea".
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The United States President who signed the Indian Removal Act.
Andrew Jackson
200
Invention that increased the demand for slaves in the South.
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
What was the FIRST Native American group in Georgia?
Paleo
300
This form of land distribution encouraged growth and expansion, but settlers were not guaranteed a plot of land.
What is a Land Lottery?
300
What were the two groups of Native Americans who lived in Georgia before Indian Removal?
Creeks & Cherokees
300
Maintained a balance of power between slave and free states by allowing Missouri to become a "slave state" and Maine to become a "free state".
What is the Missouri Compromise?
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 did Georgia's economy depend on prior to 1860?
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
According to the Compromise of 1850, what state was allowed to enter the Union as a "free state"?
California
400
I was a slave who sued my master to become a free man after we traveled to northern states. My case went all the way to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled against me by stating, "slaves are not citizens".
Dred Scott
400
What was the name of the organized escape plan for southern slaves fleeing their owners?
The Underground Railroad
500
After the 1820's, from which country did most of the land taken during westward expansion come?
Mexico
500
Supreme Court case that declared that Georgia laws did not apply inside the Cherokee nation.
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
500
What was the support of the Compromise of 1850 in the state of Georgia called?
The Georgia Platform
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!"