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The Creek chief who illegally signed the Second Treaty of Indian Springs and was murdered by his tribesmen for this action.
Who is William McIntosh?
One of the major technological advances in the 19th century. Georgia was one of the leaders in its development in the 1830’s and many of Georgia’s towns and cities were established near them.
What are railroads?
The leaders of the Patriots at the Battle of Kettle Creek.
Who were Elijah Clarke?
Site of America’s first gold rush in 1828; discovery of gold in the area was a factor in the Cherokee removal.
What was the Dahlonega Gold Rush?
The first capital of Georgia
What is Savannah?
Single-handedly captured a group of British loyalists who bragged of murdering an American colonel; patriot spy.
Who was Nancy Hart?
A machine that was capable of removing the seeds from up to 50 pounds of cotton a day and led to an increase in slavery and westward expansion.
What is the cotton gin?
The two delegates from Georgia sent to the Constitutional Convention to sign the Constitution in Philadelphia?
Who were William Few and Abraham Baldwin?
The result of the signing of the Second Treaty of Indian Springs.
What is the Creek Indian removal from Georgia?
Land allocation approach that gave the average Georgian a chance to buy land at pennies on the dollar.
What is the Land Lotteries?
The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme court who ruled in favor of the Cherokee in the Worcester vs. Georgia case.
Who was John Marshall?
He created an early cotton gin that separated the cotton seeds from the cotton lint.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The three Georgia delegates to the Continental Congress.
Who were Button Gwinnett, George Walton, & Lyman Hall?
The case President Andrew Jackson was referring to when he said, "John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it!"
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The fourth Capital of Georgia
What is Millegdeville?
The Principal Chief of the Cherokee Indians who tried to use legal means to fight against removal.
Who was John Ross?
The first state-sponsored school of higher education in the United States.
What is the University of Georgia?
Georgia's third royal governor whose leadership helped the colony prosper?
Who was James Wright?
The forced removal of the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
An event where land companies bribed members of the Georgia General Assembly to sell land for pennies on the dollar.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
The only African American to fight at the Battle of Kettle Creek.
Who was Austin Dabney?
The Georgia city that became the first major American city built on a location without a navigable river.
What is Atlanta?
Colonists who were loyal to Great Britain.
Who were loyalists?
Georgia gained access to western land from Native Americans and used this first land policy to distribute it.
What was the headright system?
Native American tribe that lived in northwestern Georgia; forcefully removed from the state in the early 1830’s.
Who are the Cherokee Indians?