University of Georgia
This university was the first state-supported university in the United States.
What is the University of Georgia?
This is the acronym to remember the state capitals of Georgia.
What is S.A.L.M.A? Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta.
This served as a status symbol during this time period-- the more you had, the wealthier you were.
What is land?
This is the person who often sided with the U.S. government instead of the Creeks.
Who is William McIntosh?
This was the 2nd state capital of Georgia.
What is Augusta?
What is Oconee?
This old city was the first capital of Georgia.
What is Savannah?
This act was burned on the steps of the state capitol building in Louisville.
What is the Yazoo Act?
This American Indian tribe was the most populous tribe in the state.
What is the Creek?
This is the year in which women were allowed to attend the University of Georgia.
What is 1918?
The University of Georgia was originally called this.
What is Franklin College?
This is another name that Atlanta was called.
What was Terminus?
This land policy allowed people to purchase chances to win the opportunity to buy land in the lotteries.
What is Land Lottery?
This treaty was signed after McIntosh accepted a $200,000 bribe.
What is the Treaty of Indian Springs?
This invention made producing cotton much more effectively.
What is the cotton gin?
This person wrote the school's charter saying that all people, not just the wealthy, have a right to education.
Who is Abraham Baldwin?
This capital was the capital of Georgia for 61 years.
What is Milledgeville?
This land policy granted white males who were head of families 200 acres plus 50 acres for each family member.
What is the Headright System?
This is what the Cherokee called the trek where they were forcially removed from their homes.
What is the "trail where they cried."
This was the Supreme Court case in which a missionary was arrested multiple times for living among the Cherokee.
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
These two students became the first African-American students to enroll at the University of Georgia.
Who is Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes?
List the reasoning(s) for the westward movement of Georgia's capitals.
Answers will vary. Teachers decision.
Under this land policy, speculators purchased huge tracts of land for roughly one cent per acre.
What is the Yazoo Land?
List the reasons for the removal of both the Creek and Cherokee Indians.
Final Jeopardy Question
This person was sent to Washington D.C. to negotiate with U.S. politicians about white settlers on their lands. He also spoke English fluently.
Who is John Ross?