UGA & Georgia Capitals
These are the 5 Capitals of Georgia in CHRONOLOGICAL order?
What is:
Savannah
Augusta
Louisville
Milledgeville
Atlanta?
The Headright system gave this many acres to every head of household & revolutionary war veteran who applied.
What is: 200 acres of land?
This Creek Chief signed the Treaty of Indian Springs without his tribe's consent and gave up their remaining land, leading to his eventual execution by his own tribe members
Who is: William McIntosh?
Invented by Eli Whitney, this machine provided an efficient process for removing seeds from the cotton crop
What is the Cotton Gin?
The first State-Chartered University in the US
What is the University of Georgia?
This city was the capital of Georgia when the original colony founded in Georgia by James Oglethorpe through the Charter of 1732
What is:
Savannah?
Land distribution system that held public events in which Georgians had the chance to win the right to buy land from the state.
What are the Georgia Land Lotteries?
Legislation signed by President Jackson whose purpose was taking Indian land in Georgia and forcibly relocating the inhabitants west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
This mode of transportation quickly spread through Georgia, providing a faster way to ship goods and people around the state and the US
What is the Railroad System?
The Principal (Head) Chief of the Cherokee Nation that fought against relocation.
Who was: John Ross?
This city is the current capital of Georgia and is a major hub of transportation throughout the country.
What is:
Atlanta?
The land distribution policy sold 35 million acres of land to four land companies for $500,000.
What is the Yazoo Act?
The event in which Indians in Georgia were removed from their homes and forced to walk to present day Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The negative effect that the Cotton Gin had on the state of Georgia was
What is an increase in the enslaved population in Georgia?
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled that the Cherokee were a sovereign nation and not subject to US Law
Who is John Marshall?
This was the MAIN reason for the capitals of Georgia moving westward.
The population of Georgia shifting westward through the use of land policies in the state
This was Georgia's first method of distributing land; this provided heads of households and Revolutionary War veterans with free land along the east coast of Georgia
What was the Georgia Headright System?
This President was responsible for:
- The Indian Removal Act
- Forced relocation of Indians to Oklahoma
- Caused the Trail of Tears
Who is President Andrew Jackson?
An early name given to Atlanta due to the Railroad Systems all crossing through the city. This word means "the end of the line".
What is Terminus?
This man said the following statement in response to the Supreme Court decision, "John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it!"
Who is President Andrew Jackson?
This city was named after a French king as thanks for assisting during the revolutionary war and was abandoned as a capital due to a malaria outbreak.
What is:
Louisville?
As a result of the Yazoo Land Fraud, Georgia's borders were moved from the _______________ river to the ____________________ river.
What is the Mississippi River, to the Chattahoochee River?
The Second ___________________, signed in 1825, gave up remaining Creek lands in western Georgia.
Second Treaty of Indian Springs
The man who created the Charter for the establishment of Georgia.
Who was Abraham Baldwin
The Supreme Court case in which the Cherokee were declared a sovereign (independent) nation, and therefore NOT subject to US law
What is Worcester v. Georgia?