Policies
What is the headright system?
The name of the removal process that made thousands of Cherokees leave their homes.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Who is Eli Whitney?
The crop that was most important to Georgia's economy.
What is cotton?
The first state supported university in the United States.
What is UGA?
The land policy that allowed people fairness when getting land.
What is the land lotteries?
In 1829 this was discovered causing people to want the Cherokees out of their land.
What is gold?
The person who signed the Treaty of Indian Springs in which the Creeks gave up land.
Who is William McIntosh?
The invention that allowed cotton to be produced at a much higher rate.
What is the cotton gin?
The capitals of Georgia.
What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta- SALMA?
The land policy that became a huge scandal with people making millions on the sale of land.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
The president who ignored the ruling in Worcestor v. Georgia
The person who created a written language for the Cherokees.
Who is Sequoyah?
The form of transportation that increased exportation of cotton.
What are the railroads?
The first name for Atlanta.
What is Terminus?
What are Alabama and Mississippi?
The number of Cherokees that died during the Trail of Tears.
What is 4,000?
A Christian Missionary who wouldn't swear allegiance to the government.
Who is Samuel Worcestor?
The city ranked first as a cotton seaport on the Atlantic ocean.
What is Savannah?
The name of the Cherokee newspaper.
What is the Cherokee Pheonix?
The person who bribed fellow legislators to support the Yazoo Land Act.
Who was Senator James Gunn?
The Chief of the Cherokee during the Trail of Tears.
Who is John Ross?
The supreme court justice who ruled in favor of the Cherokee in Worcestor v. Georgia.
Who is John Marshall?
The town that became the center of trade in the south.
What is Atlanta?
The river that became Georgia's western border after the Yazoo Land Fraud.
What is the Chattahoochee river?