Capitals
First capital of Georgia
What is Savannah
What public University was created to provide education for everyone?
What was University of Georgia (UGA)
Land policy that gave 200 acres of land to the head of the family
What was the headright system
This political party led the way with secession and states' rights
What was the Democrats
This Union war strategy was created to keep the south from resupplying by cutting off supply lines in the west and on the coast.
What is the Anaconda Plan
Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment
Acronym to help remember the capitals in order.
What is SALMA
This event happened in Dahlonega that caused the Cherokee land to be highly desired.
What was the gold rush
Land was sold to land companies for little money and they were able to sell the land for huge profits. This decribes which land deal?
What is Yazoo Land Act
This famous Supreme Court case unfairly ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What was the Dred Scott Case
What is Chickamauga.
Amendment that granted voting rights to all men regardless of race or color.
What is 15th Amendment
This city was chosen as capital due to the railroads and factories located there.
What is Atlanta
Who were the Cherokee
This was the most fair of the land systems. Citizens participated in a drawing that allowed them to purchase land at a fair price.
What is the land lottery
The election of this President led to the secession of South Carolina and other southern states.
Who was Abraham Lincoln
Confederate prison located in Georgia where thousands of Union soldiers died of starvation.
What was Andersonville Prison
Congressional leaders that created the Freedmen's Bureau and pushed for the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
Who are the Radical Republicans
This city was the capital during the Civil War
Milledgeville
President that ignored the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v GA and removed the Native Americans to Oklahoma with the Trail of Tears.
Who was Andrew Jackson
The maximum amount of land allowed per family under the headright system.
What is 1,000 acres
The GA platform said that Georgia would stay in the Union as long as the Fugitive slave law was upheld. It was important because it helped to avoid this act by other southern states.
What was secession
Union General who used total war tactics to destroy Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah.
Who was General William Sherman
Group of southerners that wanted the democrats to pass legislation against African Americans and terrorized newly freed slaves.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan
This city lost the capital due to constant malaria outbreaks
What is Louisville
Creek leader who signed away Creek land for his own benefit and was killed by the Creek as a result.
Who was William McIntosh
Name the land act that was repealed due to the bribery involved in its passing.
What is the Yazoo land act
California was admitted as a Slave state and the fugitive slave law was passed.
What was the Compromise of 1850
Document that freed the slaves in only the rebelling states (Confederate States) after the Battle of Antietam.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Southern states had to create new constitutions, were managed under military control, and had to accept the 14th and 15th amendments under this plan.
What was Congressional Reconstruction.