Any and Everything
What happened to most of the Loyalists in Georgia after the Revolutionary War?
What is they had to give up their land and leave the state?
Who is the inventor of the Cotton Gin?
Who is Eli Whitney?
What is significant about the history of the University of Georgia?
What is it was the first state chartered university in the United States?
Much of the land that Georgians won in the land lotteries belonged to who?
Name the three signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia.
What is Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton?
The development of the Cotton gin expanded this transportation network in Georgia.
What is Railroads?
What was one negative consequence of the invention of the cotton gin? (Hint: not slavery)
Georgia became dependent on one single crop.
Name the land policy where legislators were bribed to make sure they supported selling GA's land to four land companies?
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
In the years immediately preceding the Civil War, which crop was the MOSt important to Georgia's economy?
What is cotton?
What two developments transformed Georgia's agricultural industry in the early-to-mid 1800s?
What is the invention of the cotton gin and the development of railroads?
Name the land policy where tickets were placed in large drums. One drum contained the lots of lands available and the other drum contained individual names.
What is the Land Lotteries?
Louisville was named after?
What is King Louis XVI?
In Georgia, the sympathies of Loyalists and Patriots divided over their opinion of this Act?
What is the Stamp Act?
Daily Double worth 800: What pressing problem did the invention of the cotton gin solve?
What is removed the seeds from the cotton much quicker than if done by hand?
What purpose did the mounds serve in Mississippian society?
What is it was a gathering site for religious (Burial) and social activities (ceremonies)?
What happened to the members of Georgia's legislature involved in the Yazoo Land Fraud?
What is they were voted out of office?
Did James Wright, the 3rd Royal governor of Georgia, support or oppose Britain during the American Revolution?
What is Wright supported Britain and tried to keep Georgians from joining in the revolt? He did this because he was loyal to the king.
Name two ways the invention of the cotton gin change the South?
What is cotton production became easier and the demand for slavery increased?
UGA stands for.......
What is the University of Georgia?
How did early Georgians qualify for land under the Headright System?
What is you had to be white, male and counted as head of the family to have the right to claim up to 200 acres? American Revolutionary Soldiers could own up to 1000 acres. Slaves and family members received 50 an acre.