Native Americans
Free points (100)
What is select again?
The invention of the cotton gin help change Georgia population by
What is people moved westward in Georgia seeking more arable land?
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What is select again?
The treaty that Mcintosh signed, giving all of Creek Lands up in Georgia
What is the Second Treaty of Indian Springs
The following cause Georgia to stop giving land away under the Headright system
What is giving away up to 1000 acres, Georgia was quickly going to run out of land?
Who was the president who put in place the Trail of Tears?
President Jackson
What invention helped to process cotton much more quickly?
Cotton gin
The chief of the Cherokee who took a petition to Congress protesting the Cherokee removal from their land
Who is John Ross?
Dahlonega Gold Rush cause the following
What is led to the final removal of the Cherokee from Georgia?
The following explains how someone can get land under the Land lottery distribution system
DOUBLE OR NOTHING
What are potential settlers entered into a drawing (“lottery”) to win the land that was formerly settled by Native Americans
What was Native American territory west of the Mississippi River
What is Oklahoma
The Georgia General Assembly respond to Georgia’s continued westward expansion by
What is moving the capital to ensure it was close to the newly populated areas of the state?
This Native American tribe sues President Jackson for taking their land and a winner
Cherokee tribe
The settlers' demands for the relocation of the Cherokee intensify in the 1820s because
What is Gold was discovered on Cherokee land?
The following describes the Yazoo Land Fraud
What are Legislators who were bribed to make sure they supported a land deal to sell four companies 35 million acres for $500,000?
The soldiers forced the Indians to walk 800 miles from Georgia to Oklahoma.
Trail of Tears
What universities were the first to be created using state support?
What is the University of Georgia?
The Cherokee believe the Supreme Court’s decision in Worcester v. Georgia would protect their lands from the settlement because
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What is the Court held that the Cherokee Nation was not subject to U.S. or Georgia laws because it was a sovereign nation?
The invention of the cotton gin leads to - more cotton production which leads to - more cotton sold to England create the following
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What are more railroads built to ship cotton to ports?
Georgia’s antebellum government used what to attract new settlers to move into the state
What is creating multiple land distribution programs to provide settlers with free land?
The Indian Removal Act cause the following
What is forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi from their homes?
Georgia’s capital moved to Louisville for the following reason
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What is the hope was that Louisville would become a thriving center of trade due to its location near a river?
The Cherokee’s worked hard to change their society to be like those of white settlers in Georgia, list the four key ways
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What is
Developed a written language (syllabary)
Developed their own newspapers
Modeled their Constitution on that of the United States Constitution
Adopted large scale plantation agriculture
The following connection can be made between the headright system and the land lotteries in Georgia
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What is both where government efforts to attract settlers to Georgia and encourage economic growth?
The following is a long-term impact of the Yazoo Land Fraud that change Georgia's border
What is Georgia’s western border moved from the Mississippi River to the Chattahoochee River?