Miscellaneous
Capitals & Churches
Land Policies
Technology Advancement
Removal of Creeks and Cherokees
100
What did Sequoyah accomplish for the Cherokee?
He created a system of writing for the Cherokee
100
What is one way in which the University of Georgia is unique among American universities?
What is the first public American university created by a state government?
100
What did the Cherokee and Creek people have that the European settlers wanted?
What is land?
100
Why did Georgia invest heavily in railroads before the Civil War?
What is to transport agricultural products?
100
How did the Cherokee and Creek people lose their land in Georgia?
What is the United States government forced them to leave?
200
Atlanta at one time was called _____ because it was the hub for all railroads in Georgia.
Terminus
200
How many capitals has the state of Georgia had?
5
200
In 1795, several Georgia legislators became involved with illegal land speculation. What did their involvement come to be called?
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
200
Why was Eli Whitney's cotton gin an important invention for farmers/slaves in Georgia prior to the Civil War?
What is, it was used to process cotton more quickly?
200
Why were people of the Cherokee nation sent on the Trail of Tears?
What is the European settlers wanted the land used by the Cherokee?
300
What was the third capital of Georgia?
What is Louisville?
300

 Andrew Jackson  ignored their decision in the case Worcester v. Georgia.

Who ignored the Supreme Court decision that the Cherokee were sovereign and did not have to follow Georgia's laws?

300
What were the two main methods did Georgia use to distribute land in the late 1700s and 1800s?
What is the headright system and the land lottery?
300
Which railroad became the primary railroad in Georgia in the 1830s?
What is the Western and Atlantic?
300
Which Georgian negotiated and signed the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825 that signed all Creek lands in Georgia?
Who is William McIntosh?
400
After the Revolutionary War, Georgia was working to improve
What is education and religion?
400

The Indian Removal Act

What was the legal act that relocated Native Americans to present-day Oklahoma?

400
What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?
What is to distribute land to new settlers?
400
The chief cash crop in Georgia before the Civil War was
What is cotton?
400
Who traveled on the Trail of Tears? (Which tribe)
Who are the Cherokees?
500
Due to poor roads, Georiga needed a better transportation system. What was created?
What are the railraods?
500
What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta?
What are the names of the five capitals of Georgia, in order?
500
What system replaced the headright system as a way of allocating land?
What is land lottery?
500
The cotton gin was used to
What is to separate the seeds from the cotton fiber?
500
The Cherokee tribe moved from Georgia to Oklahoma. What could they no longer do as easily?
What is farm?
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