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Question | Answer |
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What case said Georgia laws are not valid in Cherokee land? | Worcester vs. Georgia |
How many capitals did Georgia have? | Five |
What land policy is where the head of the household gets 200 acres? | Headright System |
What were the five capitals? | Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Millidgeville, Atlanta |
Where was the area that land speculators gave away? | Alabama and Mississippi |
What was the original name for Atlanta? | Terminus |
What was the limit for the 1st land policy? | 1,000 acres |
Who wrote UGA's charter? | Abraham Baldwin |
What act removed Cherokees from east of the Mississippi River to move west? | Indian Removal Act |
Who ruled in favor of the Cherokees? | John Marshall |
Who ignored the ruling and ordered the Cherokees removed? | President Andrew Jackson |
Who argued for the Cherokees before the Supreme Court? | John Ross |
Where was gold discovered in Cherokee territory? | Dahlonega |
How much land did the Georgia General Assembly set aside for the establishment of UGA? | 40,000 acres |
What was the fourth capital? | Millidgeville |
Which capital was named after King Louis XVI? | Louisville |
What is Atlanta's nickname? | Gate City |
What were the three land policies? | Headright System, Yazoo Land Fraud, Land Lottery |
What was the limit of land you could have with the Headright System? | 1,000 acres |
What was the nickname Georgia earned with the cotton gin? | King Cotton |
Who signed the Treaty of Indian Springs? | William McIntosh |
Who did the Indians side with during the Revolutionary War? | British |
What happened as a result of the Treaty of Indian Springs? | A war party murdered William McIntosh |
Where did the Creeks relocate after the Treaty of Indian Springs? | In the wilderness across the Mississippi River |
What did the Treaty of Indian Springs do? | Ceded the Creeks remaining land in GA |
What did the federal government agree to do in 1802? | Remove Creek and Cherokee Indians still in Georgia |
Who were the Creeks led by? | William McIntosh |
Which land policy is where land speculators got the land? | Yazoo Land Fraud |
Which land policy is where everyone gets equal amounts of land? | Land Lottery |
What increased the need for slavery? | Cotton Gin |
Why are railroads important? | We needed a way to transport all of the cotton that we planted for a profit. |
What was a land lottery? | A single white male gets one chance to win land, while a man with a family or a widow with kids, gets two chances. |
Why did a man with a family or a widow with kids get two chances? | They had kids to help them take care of the land |