UGA/Expansion
What school was chartered in 1785 by the Georgia General Assembly?
What is the University of Georgia?
The railroad caused the development of what Georgia city at first nicknamed Terminus?
What is Atlanta?
Which system distributed land by matching plots with numbered tickets held by settlers
What is land lotteries?
What was the massive fraud where land was sold to land companies and members of Georgia government were bribed?
What is Yazoo Land Fraud?
The route of various American Indian groups were forced to walk when made to move reservations.
What is the Trail of tears?
Who invented the cotton gin?
What is Eli Whitney?
Name the capitals in chronological order, using the acronym
The Land Lottery sought to distribute land grants that the state got from the
What is Creek and Cherokee?
Where was the very first gold rush in the United States?
What is Dahlonega?
Which president was responsible for signing the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
What is Andrew Jackson?
What is something about the construction of the first railroads in Georgia? what did it lead to?
What is helped develop cities and move people west?
Which transportation was mostly likely used for shipping & travel in America during the 1860's?
What is railroads?
Explains Georgia's relocation of its capital from Augusta to Louisville
What is capitals moving westward with the population?
John Marshall was a leader of which part of government?
What is the Supreme Court?
Which Indian chief sold his peoples land without permission and was murdered
What is Chief McIntosh?
The MAIN reason Abraham Baldwin formed the University of Georgia was because
What is wanted to improve the education of the people of Georgia?
How did the inventions like the telegraph, steamboat, and railroads affect life in early American?
What is led to slavery to spread and increase and a economic growth?
What is a Land Grant?
What is federal government donated the land for the college.
The Supreme Court decision denied the right of states to take tribal land
What is Worcester vs Georgia?
The discovery of gold on Cherokee land and racial prejudice toward American Indians led to
What is Trail of Tears?
Why was The University of Georgia important to Georgia and the country development?
What is the university provided the framework for the publicly supported system of higher education in the United States.
The cotton gin and the demand for cotton in the north and European textile factories led to
What is an increase for slaves?
The sale of western Georgia lands, known as the "Yazoo Lands," was controversial MAINLY because
what is Bribing importing people in Georgia?
Georgia attempt to attract families and plantation owners to settle in the state by offering up to 1,000 acres of free land?
What is the Headright system?
Explains why the route to the Indiana territory became known as the "Trail of Tears"
What is many Cherokee died along the journey?