Question 1

U.S. Constitution

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The document that set up our current framework for government; written in 1787 and
ratified in 1788.

Question 2

Bill of Rights

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The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Question 3

General Assembly

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The legislature of the state of Georgia; consists of a senate and a house of representatives.

Question 4

Headright System

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A system of distributing land by which each white male as the “head” of a family had the “right” to receive up to 1,000 acres.

Question 5

Yazoo Land Fraud

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The sale of western land to four land
companies after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed.

Question 6

Louisiana Purchase

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A transaction in which the United States, at the urging of President Jefferson, bought
from France for $15 million a huge amount of land stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.

Question 7

Depression

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A sharp economic downturn; businesses and
banks fail, farmers lose their land, people lose their jobs.

Question 8

Turnpike

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A road that travelers had to pay a fee, or “toll,” to use.

Question 9

Embargo

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The stopping of all trade with a foreign country.

Question 10

Syllabary

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A group of symbols that stand for whole syllables.

Question 11

Oconee War

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War along the Oconee River between the
Creek led by Alexander McGillivray and the settlers.

Question 12

Treaty of New York

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The agreement that ended the Oconee War; the Creek gave up all of their land east of the Oconee River.

Question 13

Red Sticks

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Those Native Americans in the early 1800s
who wanted war with the white settlers.

Question 14

White Sticks

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Those Native Americans in the early 1800s
who did not want war with white settlers.

Question 15

Treaty of Indian Springs

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A treaty signed in 1825 by which the Lower Creek gave up the last Creek lands in Georgia to the federal government in return for $200,000.

Question 16

Litigation

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Legal court action.

Question 17

Emigrate

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To move to another place.

Question 18

Trail of Tears

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Name given to the forced removal of the
Cherokee to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).

Question 19

Eli Whitney

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Invented the cotton gin; 1793.

Question 20

Cyrus McCormick

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Invented the grain reaper.

Question 21

William Few

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Served in the Provincial Congress, the Georgia Assembly, and the Continental Congress before being named as a representative to the Constitutional Convention.

Question 22

Thomas Jefferson

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1803, President Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million; it doubled the size of the country and the US now extended west to the Rocky Mountains.

Question 23

George Mathews

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1795 & Governor. He was bribed by four land companies to pass a bill allowing the land companies to buy the western lands. This would eventually be known as the Yazoo Land Fraud.

Question 24

Andrew Jackson

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Commanded American troops at the Battle of New Orleans.  Later invaded Florida and forced Spain to sell the land for $5 million.  He was named governor of the newly acquired Florida Territory.

Question 25

James Vann

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Cherokee chief; lived in a house called the "Showcase of the Cherokee Nation."  He believed the Christianity meant progress for the Cherokee and he brought in Moravian missionaries to teach his children and people.

Question 26

Sequoyah

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Indian who developed symbols to represent the 80 sounds of the tribe's language.  His real name was George Gist of the Cherokee tribe.

Question 27

Elias Boudinot

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Indian leader who became the editor of the first Indian newspaper, the "Cherokee Phoenix." 1828.

Question 28

Alexander McGillivray

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Creek Indian chief; signed the Treaty of New York, which said the Creek had to give up all of their land east of the Oconee River; 1790.

Question 29

William McIntosh

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Creek Chief; signed the Treaty of Indian Springs; he was paid to give up Creek lands in Georgia.  In 1825, he was killed & scalped as a warning to others who might want to give Creek land to white men.

Question 30

Benjamin Parks

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1829: given credit for discovering gold in Dahlonega while deer hunting.

Question 31

Samuel Worchester

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1831: Reverend and postmaster at New Echota refused to sign the oath of allegiance to the governor and was jailed with 10 other people.

Question 32

Augustin Clayton

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Gwinnett County Judge; sentenced the group of eleven people (including Rev. Samuel Worchester) to four years in the state penitentiary in Millidgeville because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to the governor.

Question 33

Winfield Scott

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1838: General who was ordered to removed the fifteen thousand or more Cherokee who refused their home (Trail of Tears).

Question 34

Terminus

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Literally means the end of a railroad line.  Original name for Atlanta.

Question 35

Dahlonega

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Gold was discovered here in 1829.

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