Georgia Capitals
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Chosen due to it being a transportation hub.
What is Atlanta?
Land distribution system that provided white males an opportunity to claim land based on number of family members and slaves.
What is Headright System?
He signed the treaty giving up the last Creek lands in Georgia to the federal government.
What is William McIntosh?
The person who created the cotton gin.
What is Eli Whitney?
The demand for arable land in Georgia, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice felt toward American Indians are linked in that these factors provoked this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
First capital during colonial times and early in the American Revolution.
What is Savannah?
Scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi (then a part of Georgia’s western claims) to four land companies for the sum of $500,000.
What is Yazoo Land Act?
The group of people that experienced the most negative impact from Georgia’s land distribution systems.
What are Native Americans?
Machiene for cleaning cotton of it's seeds, increased demand for slave labor, and encouraged railroad development.
What is the Cotton Gin?
What is Gold was discovered on Cherokee land in Dahlonega?
Third capital; chosen because of its more westward location in the state.
What is Louisville?
Land distribution system that held events in which Georgians had the chance to win the right to buy land from the state.
What are Land Lotteries?
Chief that was murdered by his people because he signed the treaty giving up the last Creek lands in Georgia to the federal government.
What is William McIntosh?
Increased cotton markets, more efficient trade, and the rise of Atlanta were caused by this.
Trains and/or Railroads
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled Cherokee territory was not subject to state law.
What is John Marshall?
The 2nd capital chosen during Savannah’s British occupation during the American Revolution.
What is Augusta?
Purpose of the headright system and land lotteries.
What is Land Distribution?
The place that the Creek were relocated to after signing the William McIntosh signed the Treaty of Indian Springs.
What is Oklahoma?
Major city in Georgia developed because of the intersection of different railroad lines.
What is Atlanta?
Supreme Court decision denied the right of states to take tribal lands but was ignored by President Andrew Jackson.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Fourth capital; chosen once Creek lands were opened up for white settlers.
What is Milledgeville?
First state-supported, land-grant university chartered in the United States. To Provide education to all people not just the wealthy.
What is University of Georgia?
Treaty of Indian Springs.
What is the treaty signed by Willaim McIntosh?
What was a negative effect as the result of the invention of the cotton gin?
Slave population increased
Head chief of the Cherokee who took a petition the Supreme Court protesting the Cherokee removal from their land.
What is John Ross?