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The Creek chief who illegally signed the Second Treaty of Indian Springs and was murdered by his tribesmen for this action.
Who is William McIntosh?
One of the major technological advances in the 19th century. Georgia was one of the leaders in its development in the 1830’s and many of Georgia’s towns and cities were established near them.
What are railroads?
Caused the King to impose taxes on the colonists in order to pay for the war
What is the French and Indian War?
Site of America’s first gold rush in 1828; discovery of gold in the area was a factor in the Cherokee removal.
What was the Dahlonega Gold Rush?
The first capital of Georgia
What is Savannah?
The signers of the DOI that were from Georgia
Who is Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton?
A machine that was capable of removing the seeds from up to 50 pounds of cotton a day and led to an increase in slavery and westward expansion.
What is the cotton gin?
Forbid colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The result of the signing of the Second Treaty of Indian Springs.
What is the Creek Indian removal from Georgia?
Land allocation approach that gave the average Georgian a chance to buy land at pennies on the dollar.
What is the Land Lotteries?
The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme court who ruled in favor of the Cherokee in the Worcester vs. Georgia case.
Who was John Marshall?
He created an early cotton gin that separated the cotton seeds from the cotton lint.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The three Georgia delegates to the Continental Congress.
Who were Button Gwinnett, George Walton, & Lyman Hall?
The case President Andrew Jackson was referring to when he said, "John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it!"
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The fourth Capital of Georgia
What is Millegdeville?
The Principal Chief of the Cherokee Indians who tried to use legal means to fight against removal.
Who was John Ross?
The first state-sponsored school of higher education in the United States.
What is the University of Georgia?
For imposing taxes without our consent, for quarting large bodies of armed troops among us, for cutting out our trade with all parts of the world
What are grievances in the DOI?
The forced removal of the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
An event where land companies bribed members of the Georgia General Assembly to sell land for pennies on the dollar.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
President that signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The Georgia city that became the first major American city built on a location without a navigable river.
What is Atlanta?
Section of the DOI that made it clear that the US would never rejoin Great Britain
What is the declaration?
Georgia gained access to western land from Native Americans- head of household received 200 acres
What was the headright system?
Native American tribe that lived in northwestern Georgia; forcefully removed from the state in the early 1830’s.
Who are the Cherokee Indians?