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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| University of Ga | the first chartered land grant university |
| Baptist & Methodist Churches | two main church groups that grew in size and importance in their communities and spread to other communities |
| Louisville | Ga's 3rd Capital; location of the burning of the Yazoo Land Act |
| headright system | system of distributing land by which each white male counted as "head" of a household and had the "right" to receive up to 1000 acres of land |
| land policies | Georgia had two ways of giving away or sell land; headright and land lottery |
| land lottery | early 19th century system of land distribution qualifying citizens could register for a chance to win lots of land |
| Yazoo Land Fraud | massive fraud by several Ga state legislators who sold large tracts of Yazoo lands to political insiders at very low prices (1794) |
| cotton gin | machine that separates the seeds from the cotton; invented by Eli Whitney |
| railroads | transportation invention of the early 1800s that connected different regions; build on rails |
| Creek | Native American tribe that was a confederation in Ga and Alabama |
| Cherokee | Native American tribe; adopted the European lifestyle |