Capitals and Acronyms
This acronym helps you remember Georgia's five capital cities in order from earliest to most recent: Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta.
What is SALMA?
Under this land distribution system, the head of a household was eligible to receive up to 200 acres of free land on the Georgia frontier.
What is the Headright System?
This machine separates cotton seeds from cotton fiber, helping Georgia become a top global cotton producer.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The forced movement of over 4,000 Cherokee and other indigenous people to Oklahoma in 1838, resulting in deaths from disease, starvation, and harsh weather.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Cherokee Chief who argued his nation's case before the U.S. Supreme Court and won.
Who was John Ross?
Founded in 1733 by James Oglethorpe, this city served as the first capital of Georgia in 1777.
What is Savannah?
In this system, free white males got one chance, while men with families or widows with children got two chances to win land.
What are Land Lotteries?
By 1860, Georgia had over 1,200 miles of these to transport goods like cotton and boost economic growth.
What are Railroads?
This U.S. President signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and ignored the Supreme Court's ruling protecting Cherokee lands.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
In Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia had no authority over lands belonging to this Native tribe.
Who are the Cherokee?
In 1786, this city became the second capital of Georgia.
What is Augusta?
Land speculators bribed Georgia legislators in 1796 to pass a bill selling large areas of land in present-day Alabama and Mississippi for very low prices.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
Opened in 1801, the University of Georgia holds this unique distinction among U.S. universities.
What is the 1st public university in the U.S.?
This Muscogee (Creek) Chief negotiated with Governor Troup to cede Muscogee land to the government.
Who was William McIntosh?
This landmark Supreme Court case declared that states had no authority to interfere with Native American tribes.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
In 1796, this capital city was chosen because the Ogeechee River provided convenient water transportation?
What is Louisville?
As an outcome of the Yazoo Land Fraud, Georgia lost western territories and money, leading to the formation of these two new states.
What are Alabama and Mississippi?
Before it was named Atlanta, this transportation hub city was originally known by this name.
What is Terminus?
This treaty ceded all remaining Muscogee (Creek) lands in Georgia, forcing them to relocate.
What is the Treaty of Indian Springs?
He was the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled in favor of the Cherokee.
Who was John Marshall?
This capital city remained the capital for a little over 60 years.
What is Milledgeville?
More settlers moved to this specific Georgia area after gold was discovered, increasing pressure to take Cherokee land.
What is Dahlonega?
Georgia was part of this U.S. region, which had the most to gain from the removal of Native Americans.
What is the Southeast?
Passed by Congress in 1830, this law ordered Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to move west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The constitutional power the Supreme Court exercised in Worcester v. Georgia to overturn the state law.
What is Judicial Review?