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What are the past and present capitals of Georgia in order?
Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
_____ Georgia attempt to attract families and plantation owners to settle in the state by offering 1,000 acres of free land?
What was the headright system?
Who helped charter the first university in the US?
Who is Abraham Baldwin?
______ machine invented by Eli Whitney i 1793 that quickly removed seeds from cotton fibers
What is the cotton gin?
What piece of legislation did President Jackson enforce that contributed to events like the Trail of Tears?
What is Indian Removal Act?
_____ tickets were placed into two drums; one drum contained names of various individuals
What was the land lottery?
Chief who gave Creek land in Georgia to the US government without their consent
Who was William McIntosh?
____ Site of America's first gold rush in 1828; discovery of gold in the area was a factor in the Cherokee removal
What is the Dahlonega Gold Rush?
What present day state did Native Americans travel to on the Trail of Tears?
What is Oklahoma?
_____ is when legislators were bribed to make support a land deal
What is the Yazoo land fraud?
Who was the Cherokee chief who was not in favor of Indian removal?
Who John Ross?
What is the 3rd capital of Georgia?
What is Louisville?
____ is when the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation did not have to abide by the US, because the Nation had similar rights to a foreign country
What is Worcester v. Georgia
Following the end of the American Revolution. Georgia distributed land to veterans of the war under ___
What is the headright system?
Who was the Chief justice who decided on the Worcester v. Georgia case?
Who is John Marshall?
Andrew Jackson was pushed to take land belonging to the Creek Indians in which two state?
What is Georgia & Alabama?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
_____ was a federal law passed in 1862 to encourage the settlement of the West
What was the Homestead Act?
Who did not favor Native Americans and took land belonging to the Creek in the states of Georgia & Alabama?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
What development transformed Georgia's agricultural industry in the early-to-mid 1800's
What is the development of railroads?