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America’s first publicly supported institute of higher learning.
What is the University of Georgia? (UGA)
100
the 2 indian tribes that were removed from Georgia.
What are the Creek and Cherokee tribes?
100
the amount of power a state government has in relation to the amount of power held by the federal government in making decisions.
What are States Rights?
100
important Georgia politician who was a U.S. Senator, Georgia Governor, and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.)
Who is Alexander Stephens?
100
ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
Georgia’s third state capital. Selected as the capital due to, what at the time was its location as the center of Georgia population. This was driven by the state’s westward expansion.
What is Louisville?
200
Executed by Creek Warriors for signing over the remainder of Creek lands to the US gov.
Who is William McIntosh?
200
Missouri was allowed to enter the Union as a slave state. In return, Maine was allowed to enter as a free state. In addition, Congress forbade slavery north of the 36˚ 30’ parallel (the southern border of Missouri).
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War.
What is Battle of Antietam?
200
gave African-American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Methodist ministers who would ride from small town to small town and preach.
What are Circuit Riders?
300
Created the Cherokee Syllabary.
Who is Sequoyah?
300
California was admitted as a free state resulting in a power imbalance in both the House and Senate. In turn, Northern congressmen agreed to pass the Fugitive Slave Act, which guaranteed the return of any runaway slave to their owners if they were caught in the North.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp.
What is Andersonville Prison?
300
federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former slaves.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
400
This act sold much of the land that would become Alabama and Mississippi to four land companies for $500,000. Soon after it was discovered that the land companies bribed members of the Georgia General Assembly to sell the land.
What is the Yazoo Act? (Yazoo Fraud)
400
After gold was discovered in North Georgia, thousands of white gold miners began clamoring for Cherokee land and began to settle there without permission.
What is the Dahlonega Gold Rush?
400
position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Georgia Platform?
400
document that declared all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed if the South did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
500
a machine that was capable of removing the seeds from up to 50 pounds of cotton each day.
What is the Cotton Gin?
500
The US Army began the forced march of Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma. The Cherokee lost over 4,000 people to disease and exposure.
What is Trail of Tears?
500
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
500
Union victory; turning point of the Civil War; the North repelled a Southern invasion into Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed.
What are Sharecroppers?
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