Westward Expansion
I am the last capital in Georgia.
What is Atlanta?
This was the location of a Confederate prison camp.
What is Andersonville?
Signed a treaty giving away Creek territory.
Who was William McIntosh
Sherman destruction left which main city in ruins?
What is Atlanta?
The significance of the Georgia Platform was ____.
GA would accept the Compromise if the Fugitive Slave act was enforced.
I became the first public university.
What is the University of Georgia?
South Carolina action to the federal tariff.
What was nullification?
Persuaded Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act.
Who was Pres Andrew Jackson.
Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln ____.
Declared all enslaved people in rebelling Confederate states would be free (Jan 1863).
Explain the conflict of state's rights regarding slavery.
How did the Dahlonega Gold Rush relate to the Trail of Tears?
White settlers swarmed into the region leading to the Cherokee removal.
To strangle the Confederate trading with the outside world.
What was the Union blockade strategy?
Chief Justice who ruled Cherokee territory was not subject to state law.
Who was John Marshall?
The significance of the Dred Scott case ____.
Slaves were property and not citizens.
It abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Cherokee forcibly displaced to Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears
The significance of the Election of 1860 was ___.
What was Lincoln's opposition to the spread of slavery?
The Supreme Court decision denied the right of states to take tribal lands.
Worcester v Georgia
It gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Granted citizenship to newly freed individuals and established equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Two significant technological developments.
What was the cotton gin and the railroad.
The Union strategy in their war effort against the confederate.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
The Cherokee Chief who tried to petition the US Supreme Court over the Cherokee removal.
Who was Chief John Ross
One effect of the removal of Black legislators from the General Assembly.
Their removal contributed to the return of the military rule.
How did the Fugitive Slave Act balance out?