Georgia Capitals
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Fourth capital of Georgia
What is Milledgeville?
The first way Georgia distributed land; this provided white males an opportunity to receive land for free if they were the head of the household
What is Headright System?
Why was Creek Chief William McIntosh killed?
He signed the Treaty of Indian Springs without his tribe's consent and gave up their remaining land
How did the invention of the cotton gin influence slavery?
It increased the slave population/slave labor
This legislation (law) allowed Georgia to move the remaining Cherokee out of Georgia and take their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Second capital of Georgia
What is Augusta?
Land distribution system that held events in which Georgians had the chance to win the right to buy land from the state.
Who signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
President Andrew Jackson
What exactly did the cotton gin do?
Cleaned cotton, separated the cotton seeds and made the process faster
What event saw Cherokee laws ignored and people rushing to their land and destroying it?
The Dahlonega Gold Rush
Third capital; chosen because of its more central (center) location in the state.
What is Louisville?
What was one effect of the Yazoo Land Fraud for the people that took bribes?
They were voted out of office or resigned.
What legislation was signed by the President and forced the remainder of Cherokee natives to leave and give up their land?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
The invention of railroads in Georgia led to many of Georgia's _____________ being created
Cities and towns
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled Cherokee territory was not subject to state law.
What is John Marshall?
West
Under the Land Lottery system, these two groups of people could receive extra opportunities to win land
War veterans & widows
The purpose/intent of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was to ________________________.
Force the remaining Natives in Georgia to give up their land and go to Oklahoma
Major city in Georgia developed because of the intersection of different railroad lines. Original name was Terminus
What is Atlanta?
Supreme Court decision that ruled in favor of Cherokee and said Georgia laws do not apply to the Cherokee
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Why did the capital of Georgia continue to move?
To remain in the center of the moving population
As a result of the Yazoo Land Fraud, Georgia ceded the land west of ____________________ which became the present day states of _______________ and ______________________.
West of the Chattahoochee River
Present day states of Mississippi & Alabama
The ___________________ gave up remaining Creek lands in western Georgia
Second Treaty of Indian Springs
Who was the person that invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Chief of the Cherokee who took a petition the Supreme Court protesting the Cherokee removal from their land.
What is John Ross?