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Stack #4547794
| Definition: the first state- created school of higher education in the United states its purpose was to make education available to all people, not just wealthy. | University of Georgia (UGA) |
| Definition: a way to allocate(give out) land; heads of households would receive up to 200 acres of land; it ended because to many people wanted land and there was not enough land. | Headright System |
| Definition: An event where four land companies bribed Georgia legislators to sell land in present-day alabama mississippi for pennies on the dollar | Yazoo Land Fraud |
| Definition: the way three quarters of georgia’s land was allocated(given out); average citizens could purchase land from pennies on the dollar if there ticket was drawn . | Land Lottery |
| Definition: eli Whitney’s invention that separated the cotton seeds from the lint ; led to increase demand for slaves in the United states of america | Cotton Gin |
| Definition: Made transport transportation of goods faster and easier;many of georgia's town and cities were established due to it. | Railroad |
| Definition: creek chief with Scottish father and creek mother . he was executed by the creek tribe for signing the second treaty of indian springs which sold all there land in Gerogia without the consent of other tribe members | William McIntosh |
| Definition: Site of america's first gold rush in 1828; discovery of gold in the area was a factor in the cherokee from removal | Dahlonega Gold Rush |
| Definition: Cherif justice of the U>S supreme court who ruled in favor of allowing cherokee indians to be sovereign (free) nation with the federal protection from state laws | John Marshall |
| Definition: Supreme court case which declared that the cherokee were sovereign from state laws | Worcester v. Georgia |
| Definition: Cherokee chief who tried to work with congress to keep Cherokee lands later , he accompanied his people on the trail of tears and and organized schools in Oklahoma | John Ross |
| Definition: seventh president of the United States who refused to enforce the supreme court ruling in worcester v.gerorgia and instead enforced the indian removal act | Andrew Jackson |
| Definition: an act signed into law by andrew jackson that required the removal of Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole territory | Indian Removal Act |
| Definition: final removal of the Cherokee indians from Georgia in 1838; over 400 people died on the forced march from Georgia to Oklahoma | Trail of Tears |
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