UGA and Land Policies
The main reason Abraham Baldwin formed the University of Georgia.
What is he believed that educated people were more likely to improve Georgia?
The people who were NOT eligible to participate in the Georgia land lotteries between 1805 and 1833.
Who are men and women of color?
Played the BIGGEST role in the creation of Georgia towns and cities in the 1820s-1850s.
What is the construction of a railroad?
Who the Creek Indians sided with During the American Revolution.
Who are the British?
The justice that gave the majority opinion in the Worcester v. Georgia Supreme Court Case.
Who is John Marshall?
Important to education because it states that education was the responsibility of the state.
What is The Charter of the University of Georgia?
The reason why Georgia's capitals moved from Savannah to Milledgeville.
What is Georgia's population was expanding westward following the American Revolution?
The cotton gin increased the demand for these two items.
What is slaves and land?
Following the agreement that was reached in the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825, Chief William McIntosh lost his life for this reason.
What is Creek leaders executed McIntosh because he made the agreement without their consent?
The tribe of people is native to what is now the Southeastern United States. The eastern portion of the group still resides in North Carolina, while many were forcibly relocated west in the 1830s.
Who are the Cherokee?
The fact that provides the BEST evidence to support the conclusion that the Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most influential factors in the establishment of Georgia's borders.
What is as a result of the Yazoo Land Fraud, the western boundary of Georgia was moved from the Mississippi River to the Chattahoochee River?
The reason the government of Georgia MOST LIKELY changed from the headright system to land lotteries in the 1800’s.
What is corruption associated with the headright system?
This method of transportation was the most common method of shipping and travel in America between 1860 and 1900.
What is the railroad?
The tribe that was originally native to the Southeastern United States and was the first group to be forced out of Georgia.
Who are the Creek (Muscogee)?
The most common name for the forced migration of the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma in 1838-39 which resulted in over 4,000 deaths
What is Trail of Tears?
The Headright system and the Land Lottery were similar because of this.
What is both were used by the state government to distribute public lands to settlers?
Capitals of Georgia in order.
What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta?
The invention of the cotton gin negatively affected Native Americans living in the South because of this.
What is it led to the loss of their land?
Born in 1775, father was Scottish; mother was Creek, known as Tustunnuggee Hutkee ("White Warrior"), fought with Andrew Jackson in the Creek War, helped write and sign the Treaty of Indian Springs (1825).
Who is William McIntosh?
This law granted tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their territories within state borders, mainly in the Southeast.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The purpose of the "Headright System".
What is to encourage people to settle in Georgia?
The bribed officials involved in the Yazoo Land Act had this happen to them as a result of their actions.
What is they were voted out of office?
The long-term effect of Whitney’s invention.
What is more land is developed, and slavery is expanded throughout Georgia to profit in the cotton trade?
The FIRST action that caused many Creek Indians to turn against William McIntosh.
What is he supported the United States during the Creek War of 1813–1814?
The 1832 Supreme Court case held Cherokee Native Americans had federal protection from the actions of state governments.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?