A.O.C.
Articles of Confederation
What was Americas first constitution?
What is the University of Georgia?
Name the Creek chief who signed the remaining Creek land away in the Treaty of Indian Springs.
Who was William McIntosh?
This crop became Georgia's main crop in the 1800s.
What was cotton?
This land policy occured when four land companies bribed Georgia legislators to sell land illegally.
What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?
Coin money, Declare war, Establish post offices, and send/ recall ambassadors were the only powers of this government document.
What is the Articles of Confederation.
This man who signed the U.S. Constitution for Georgia also created the charter and was the first president of the University of Georgia.
Who was Abraham Baldwin?
The U.S. President that signed the Indian Removal Act and supported the removal of the Creek and Cherokee from Georgia.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Two ways the cotton gin impacted Georga.
Increased the demand for slavery and production of cotton.
This land policy was the first method to give away land in Georgia and gave land free to white men over 21.
What was the headright system?
This government document formed a weak federal government.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
These are the capitals in order from first to current.
Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
This was the Cherokee chief who fought through legal means and assimilation for his people to remain in Georgia.
Who was John Ross?
This was the primary reason railroads were built in Georgia in the early 1800s.
What is to transport cotton?
This was a negative impact of the land lotteries.
Having one vote per state under the A.O.C. caused this problem.
What is states did not have equal representation?
The capitals of Georgia moved west because of this reason.
What is to stay center of the moving population?
Who was Samuel Worcester?
This person invented the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
Because of the Yazoo Land Fraud Georgia's western boundary became this river.
What was the Chattahoochee River?
This was the main issue during the debates at the Constitutional Convention.
What was the issue of representation?
This capital city was chosen because of the railroads.
What is Atlanta?
The event that led to the removal of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia.
What was the Dahlonega Gold Rush?
This city was the first American city built without a navigable river.
What was Atlanta?
This land policy gave settlers a chance to win land in an unbiased manner.
What was the Land lotteries?