1. Key Terms Unit 4 Statehood
Milestones Review
Key Terms
Unit 4
Statehood

2. Which term?
The case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that states could not make or enforce laws dealing with American Indian groups, reserving such authority for the federal government.
Worcester v. Georgia

3. Which term?
A group of American Indians who lived in the southeastern US, including GA, before being forcibly removed to reservations in Oklahoma on what would become know as the Trail of Tears.
Cherokee

4. Which term?
A group of American Indians who lived in the southeastern US, including GA, before being moved to reservations in Oklahoma. Their Chief supported the efforts of the US government to obtain their lands, and was killed due to this.
Creek

5. Which term?
This document divides GA’s government into three branches: the bicameral (two-chamber) legislature; the judiciary, which is made up of the state supreme court and lower courts; and the executive branch, which is presided over by the governor. Checks & balances among the branches prevent any on branch from becoming too powerful.
Georgia’s state constitution

6. Which term?
A chief who presided over the Cherokee during their migration from Georgia to Oklahoma on what is commonly known as the Trail of Tears.
John Ross

7. Which term?
A system employed by the state of GA in the early 1800s in which some citizens could register to win land previously held by the Cherokee and Creek.
Land Lotteries

8. Which term?
A means of transporting people and goods that made interstate commerce easier and more profitable beginning in the mid-to late 1800s.
Railroad

9. Which term?
The route along which various American Indian groups were forced to walk from the Southeast to reservations west of the Mississippi.
Trail of Tears

10. Which term?
A colonist who remained loyal to the British government during the American Revolution.
Loyalist

11. Which term?
An American Revolution battle in GA (Feb. 1779). Georgia’s militia (Patriots) won, raising their morale, gave them much needed supplies, and set the stage for several victories in the southern backcountry toward the end of the war.
Battle of Kettle Creek

12. Which term?
The first of its kind to be created in the US by a government, later became a land-grant institution. Open to all people (white males) not just the wealthy.
Originally called Franklin College
Oversaw all education in the state
University of Georgia

13. Which term?
The chief justice of the US Supreme Court at the time of Worcester v. Georgia
John Marshall

14. Which term?
A person who supported breaking from the British government and forming a new government ruled by colonists
Patriot

15. Which term?
A system in which up to 200 acres of land were granted to people willing to voyage from Great Britain or from other colonies to settle in GA colony. GA employed the system in an effort to grow its population.
Headright System

16. Which term?
When gold was discovered near this town, it created an increase of settlers to the area, including onto land granted to the Cherokee and Creek Indians. This discovery led to the forced removal of the Native Americans. This event is known as:
Dahlonega Gold Rush

17. Which term?
A battle of the Revolutionary War that took place in It was the second-deadliest clash of the war. The British maintained control of Savannah at the end of the siege.
Siege of Savannah

18. Which term?
The president of the US during the GA Gold Rush. He ordered the Cherokee and Creek off GA land granted to them by a treaty with the US government.
Andrew Jackson

19. Which term?
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall & George Walton are best know for what?
Georgia’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence

20. Which term?
The first constitution of the United States. Only allowed a weak central government, and was later replaced with the U.S. Constitution, which established federal government with a president, a judicial system, and the authority to tax.
Articles of Confederation

21. Which term?
The controversial sale of land by the governor of GA and the state’s legislature during the mid-1700s. Tracts of land in what would become Mississippi and Alabama were sold cheaply to political supporters.
This event cause Georgia to lose lands between the Mississippi River and Chattahoochee Rivers.
Yazoo Land Fraud

22. Which term?
A controversial Creek chief who supported the US in its efforts to take Creek land.
William McIntosh

23. Which term?
This machine removed small particles, including seeds, from cotton fiber in the 1790s. This made cotton easier to process and cheaper to produce. This made cotton a profitable industry, allowing GA to trade not only with other states, but also other nations. Due to its’ effectiveness and profitability, slavery increased in GA and the Deep South. This led to the South’s support and defense of the institution of slavery and later led to the Civil War.
Cotton Gin