Chapter 5
This term refers to colonists who supported independence from Great Britain.
Who were the Patriots?
This was the first written plan for a national government after the American Revolution.
The articles of Confederation
This university, established in 1785, was the first state-chartered public university in the United States.
The university of Georgia
This Creek chief signed the Second Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825 without his council’s permission.
Who is William McIntosh?
He served as Georgia’s royal governor and was considered one of the most loyal colonial officials to the British Crown.
Who was James Wright?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had this type of legislature, meaning only one house.
Unicameral Legislature
Georgia’s capital moved from Savannah to Augusta, and then to this city named for a French king.
What is Louisville?
This group established their own laws and Constitution to show they had a functioning government.
Who is the Cherokee
This Georgia battle in February 1779 resulted in a Patriot victory that boosted morale and weakened Loyalist support in the South.
What was the Battle of Kettle Creek?
This was the only branch of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
The Legislative Branch
The Yazoo Land Fraud angered Georgians because legislators sold land to these types of people for unfairly low prices.
Who were land speculators?
This event in the late 1820s caused thousands of settlers to invade Cherokee lands in search of riches.
What is the Dahlonega Gold Rush?
This major 1779 battle saw French and American forces attempt—and fail—to retake Savannah from the British.
What was the Siege of Savannah?
The Constitution created this branch to enforce laws, solving the Articles’ problem of having no central leadership.
What is the executive branch?
The invention of this device by Eli Whitney transformed Georgia’s cotton production and economy.
The Cotton Gin
This 1832 Supreme Court case ruled that Georgia laws had no authority on Cherokee lands.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This was the second bloodies battle of the Revolutionary war.
The siege of Savannah
Delegates met at this 1787 meeting in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation but instead wrote an entirely new government.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The movement of Georgia’s capitals reflected this major trend among settlers in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
What is westward expansion
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the Cherokee, this president refused to enforce it.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This was the reason why the war shifted to the South after british losses in the North
Percieved loyalty of Georgia and other southern colonies.
The Constitution gave Congress this power, which solved the Articles’ problem of being unable to raise money for national needs.
What is the power to tax?
Why was the University of Georgia’s charter considered “revolutionary” for its time?
What is because it stated that education was a right for all people, not just the wealthy?
The Treaty of New Echota was signed by this small Cherokee faction, not approved by Chief John Ross or most of the Nation.
Who were Major Ridge and his followers?
Elijah Clarke, John Dooly, and Andrew Pickens were significant in what major event?
The battle of kettle Creek
These two Georgians were the only members of their state’s delegation to sign the U.S. Constitution.
Abraham Baldwin and William Few
How did technological innovations like the cotton gin and railroads together transform Georgia’s economy and society?
What is they connected farms to markets, increased cotton exports, encouraged urban growth, and deepened slavery?
This 1835 treaty, signed by Major Ridge and his followers but not by Chief John Ross, gave up all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?