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Georgia Growth
economic and land growth in Georgia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Georgia's first government? | The Articles of Confederation |
| What were some things that they had problems with? | Money, trade, and relationships with other countries and the Native Americans |
| What were the Articles of Confederation? | The way the government operated during the American Revolution, and the first form of government |
| What were the main functions of the Articles of confederation? | Defend the country, pay its debts, settle arguments between states, maintain relationships with other countries, and set up a postal service for mail going between states. |
| Why didn't the confederation have an executive branch of government? | because the colonists remembered the executive power of the king and royal governors and did not want that. |
| The government was a __________ legislature that worked by forming committees to deal with specific tasks. | unicameral (one-house) |
| How many states had to agree to change something in the Articles of Confederation? | Every state |
| What were some of the main issues of the new state/government? | how to rebuild Georgia's buildings and farms, pay the state's debt, and establish better relationships with the Creek and Cherokee. |
| which group (Patriots or Loyalists) gained control of Georgia after the war? | Patriots |
| What did the amount of land that a soldier got depend on? | Depended on the rank of the soldier. The higher the rank, the more land that soldier got. |
| Why did many settlers begin to come to Georgia? | because the state continued to grant land by the headright system. |
| What is the headright system? | The "head" of the family had the "right" to receive two hundred acres of land plus fifty acres for each additional household member. |
| _______ began to fill up the fertile land that the Indians had given up in the 1763 and the 1773 treaties. | Settlers |
| Why did Georgia want to gain more land? | Because settlers kept coming in, so they wanted to be able to have enough land for them to live and farm on. |
| Who was Alexander McGillivray? | the leader of the Upper Creek. |
| Why were Georgia's claims to the land of the Creek illegal? | because McGillivray said that since his followers hadn't agreed to the 1783 treaty, it was illegal. |
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