SS8H2 (Colonial Period)
3 different acts that King George II used as reason for the creation of the Charter of 1732.
What are philanthropy, economics, and defense?
A large conflict between France and Britain over North-American land.
What was the result of the French-Indian War?
A large building created in 1785 to make education more readily available to the public in the South.
What was the University of Georgia?
A settlement that would attempt to reduce separated conflict that included a stronger version of the Fugitive Slave law that was supported by the Georgia Platform which warned of secession if slavery was opposed.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Amendments that declared slaves free from confederate states, gave all people born in the US citizenship, and gave African Americans the ability to vote.
What are the 13th through 15th amendments?
A colonist who had a step in establishing Savannah and wanted to help debtors and the poor.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
The three parts of the Declaration of Independence.
What are the preamble, the grievances, and the declaration?
A scheme where legislators sold land illegally to rich speculators that led to public outrage and anger.
What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?
A case that would have the Supreme Court rule that enslaved people were not citizens which would anger Northerners and satisfy Southerners.
What was the Dred Scott Case?
A plan pledged by congress to reconstruct the union by dividing the South into five military districts and required the 14th and 15th amendments to get ratified. Mainly focused on protecting African American voting and civil rights.
What was Congress's Reconstruction plan?
A woman who helped with translating between the colonists and the Yamacraw tribe and a man who was the leader of the aforementioned tribe that worked with Oglethorpe to established savannah.
Who was Mary Musgrove and Tomochichi?
Two groups that spawned because of the Declaration of Independence but had different goals.
What were the Loyalists and Patriots?
Eli Whitney's invention that not only spiked economy but also increased the need for slave labor.
What is the cotton gin?
A statement done by president Abraham Lincoln that declared enslaved people free from Confederate states and allow African Americans to help fight in the Civil War.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
Four groups that lived in Georgia for different reasons, one group living there to avoid religious persecution.
A battle that ended with the British winning that was an attempt by Patriots and French allies to recapture Savannah.
What was the Siege of Savannah?
A treaty that led to the death of William McIntosh for betraying the Creek tribe and giving up Creek land.
What was the Treaty of Indian Springs?
An attempt done by a union general to capture the capital of Georgia because it was a major resource outlet for most of the Confederacy.
What was Sherman's Atlanta Campaign?
People that were kicked out of Georgia's legislation for fear of African Americans gaining political power and resistance from people who were formerly confederate.
Who were the Black Legislators?