Westward Expansion
The University of Georgia was founded for this reason.
What is to provide an education to more people than just the wealthy?
This was the ruling in the Dred Scott case.
What is that Scott, as a black man, could not be a citizen and therefore had no right to sue?
This Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in these states.
This group's goals were to keep Black Americans from gaining any political power. They used violence and intimidation to reach this goal.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
From the 1870s to the 1890s, this political group maintained control of Georgia. They wanted Georgia to become more industrialized and self-sufficient.
What is the Bourbon Triumvirate?
The purpose of Georgia's land policies was this.
What is the encouragement of westward expansion and population growth through immigration to the state?
Sectionalism
What is loyalty or interest in policies that would benefit one's own region over others?
This was the purpose of the Union's Savannah blockade.
What is cutting Georgia off from importing and exporting goods and supplies?
The Dred Scott case decision determined that black people could not be citizens of the U.S., and this amendment reversed that decision.
What is the 14th amendment?
Immediately following Reconstruction, this political party was in control of Georgia.
What is the Democratic Party?
Creek Chief William McIntosh believed this was best for the Native Americans.
What is changing the traditional Creek lifestyle and assimilating to the culture of the white Americans?
This state entered the Union as a free state as a result of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
This was a result of the Atlanta Campaign.
What is the burning and looting of Atlanta?
These two types of jobs kept farmers in a cycle of debt because they had to pay most of what they earned in rent.
What is sharecropping and tenant farming?
Leader of the Populist Party.
Who is Tom Watson?
The Cherokee tried to assimilate to white American culture in these 6 ways.
What is creating their own syllabary, wearing clothing of white settlers, practicing Christianity, sending their children to white schools, creating a newspaper, and drafting their own constitution?
This was the direct result of the Election of 1860.
What is southern states beginning to secede from the Union?
Andersonville was a camp for these people.
What are Union prisoners of war?
The goal of this organization was to help newly freed people access education, food, clothing, and other basic necessities.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This man believed that African Americans should focus on hard work and vocational training, and in time they will prove themselves to the white community.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
What is Georgia legislators benefiting from the sale of Yazoo lands by selling land for cheap to land speculation companies?
These are 3 ways slave owners used family relationships among slaves to their advantage.
What is encouraging relationships to acquire more children at zero cost, using relationships as leverage to threaten to separate families, and keeping slaves from running away?
This is the second bloodiest battle in the Civil War and a short-lived Confederate victory. The Union army retreated to Chattanooga and were not pursued, therefore being able to resupply before marching to Atlanta again.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
This was one short-lived advancement of freedmen in Georgia during Reconstruction, involving the Georgia State Assembly.
What are 33 black legislators being elected to the Georgia State Assembly?
This event took place in Atlanta during the 1880s and 1890s to help promote the New South and lure northern investors into the south.
What is the International Cotton Exposition?