Westward Movement
What is Georgia's current capital city?
Atlanta
What land policy gave a certain amount of land to the head of the household and additional land per family member?
Headright System
William McIntosh was the chief of this group of native americans.
Creek
What were the main two issues that caused the Civil War?
slavery and state's rights
The Union's blockade of the southern coast was known as the "__________ Plan".
Anaconda Plan
What was Georgia's first capital city?
Savannah
What land policy distributed land via numbered tickets that were then matched up with number sections of land?
the Land Lottery
Who was the Cherokee Chief during this time in history?
John Ross
What term refers to a state's refusal or failure to enforce a federal law?
nullification
What document freed slaves only in the rebelling states?
The Emancipation Proclamation
Why did Georgia's capitals move westward over time?
As population shifted westward, so did the capital.
What event happened that made Georgia change from the Headright System to the Land Lottery System?
The Yazoo Land Fraud
What happened to John Ross after signing the rest of the Creek land away to the government?
He was killed by his own people.
The results of this was the addition of California as a "free state" as well as strengthening of fugitive slave laws.
the Compromise of 1850
What was the location of the 2nd bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
the Battle of Chickamauga
Who established the University of Georgia?
Abraham Baldwin
After being caught in the Yazoo Land Fraud, much of Georgia's western land was given/forfeited back to the government and later became parts of what two southern states?
Alabama and Mississippi
What Supreme Court decision said the Cherokee had a right to stay in their lands?
Worcester v. Georgia
When Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president in 1860, it caused what state to be the first one to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who burned Atlanta to the ground and "marched to the sea", using a "total war" strategy?
General William T. Sherman
Why did Abraham Baldwin establish UGA?
More educated citizens means a more successful Georgia.
Slavery was on the decline and almost non-existent until the invention of what?
the cotton gin
Who signed the Indian Removal Act and what event did it cause where thousands of Cherokee lost their lives? (2 part answer)
Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears
Which Supreme Court case raised the issue of an enslaved Black person who lived in a free state and questioned whether slaves were free once they set foot upon Northern soil?
Dred Scott case
This was a southern POW camp for captured Union soldiers where many died due to overcrowding and water and air-borne diseases.
Andersonville