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Georgia Studies
Chapter 13: Georgia from Confederation to Constitution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Yazoo Land Fraud? | the sale of western land for land companies after the members of the General Assembly had been bribed |
| What kind of state was Georgia? | an agricultural state |
| What was a cotton gin? | a machine that would remove seeds from cotton by brushing the fiber through slits that were to small for the seeds |
| Who invented the cotton gin? | Eli Whitney |
| What was the land lottery? | a plan for the state to make population growth by selling land at a low market price |
| What was the cotton belt? | a place were cotton grew well, located below the mountains and above the less fertile pine barrens in south Georgia |
| What are canals? | they were man made waterways used to connect bodies of water |
| What branches of government we | Executive and Legislative |
| What were some problems that Georgia faced? | made a healthy relationship with Native Americans, pay war debts, and rebuild lands to make a profit once more |
| What was the head right system? | a legal grant of land to settlers |
| What does unicameral mean? | having a single legislative chamber |
| How could loyalists return to Georgia after the war? | they could join the continental troops or make a formal request to return |
| What document established the first government of the united states? | Articles of Confederation |
| Which creek would not willingly give up land? | upper creek |
| What is credit? | an agreement between a lender and a borrower, who promises to repay the lender at a later date—generally with interest |
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