1. What three Georgia cities served as the state’s capital during the late 1700s?
Savannah
Augusta
Louisville

2. Who would have benefited MOST from Georgia’s headright system?
Poor white settlers

3. In the mid-1800’s, what was Georgia’s main railroad company.
Western and Atlantic Railroad

4. What scandal took place when Georgia’s governor and some legislators were bribed to sell public land to private developers at below-market prices?
Yazoo Land Fraud
The “Holy Fire from
Heaven”
(Louisville)

5. Why did Georgia give up land claims in what is now Mississippi and Alabama?
Georgia was required to cede the land as a result of the federal government paying millions to settle the Yazoo Land Fraud claims.

6. What system replaced the headright system in Georgia after 1803?
Georgia Land Lottery
Cherokee land lots were parceled out to white Georgians in one of the two state land lotteries held in The state conducted a total of eight lotteries between 1805 and Sketch by George I. Parrish Jr., circa 1832.

7. What were the original names of Atlanta?
Terminus and Marthasville

8. The treaties of New York and Indian Springs are BEST associated with which group?
Creek Indians

9. What invention influenced the growth of slavery in the triangle of trade?
The cotton gin

10. Georgia lost lands claimed West of the Chattahoochee River.
What was the most lasting, negative result of the Yazoo land fraud in Georgia?
Georgia lost lands claimed West of the Chattahoochee River.

11. List Georgia’s five capitols in order.
Savannah Augusta Louisville Millegeville
Atlanta

12. By the mid-1800s, what were the two largest church denominations in Georgia?
Baptist and Methodist

13. What were ministers called who traveled from town to town preaching on different days in different communities?
Circuit Riders

14. The land for the university was donated by the federal government.
Which statement best describes a “land grant university” like the University of Georgia?
The land for the university was donated by the federal government.

15. Alexander McGillivray
You are President George Washington and you’re going to watch an Indian chief sign the treaty of New York. What name is signed to the treaty, and what Creek lands where given up?
Alexander McGillivray
Lands east of the Oconee River

16. What scandal took place when Georgia’s governor and some legislators were bribed to sell public land to speculators at below-market prices?
Yazoo land fraud

17. What was George Gist’s (Sequoyah) major contribution to the Cherokee culture?
He developed a syllabary so the Cherokee could have a written language.

18. What was the first Native American newspaper?
The Cherokee Phoenix

19. Where was the permanent Cherokee capital located?
New Echota, Georgia

20. What discovery led to the final Indian removal from Georgia?
The discovery of gold in Dahlonega

21. What name was given to the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia?
The Trail Of Tears

22. You plan to take a petition to the U.S. Congress
You are a Cherokee Chief who is angry about the removal of the Cherokee from their land. Instead of fighting, which has not gotten you the results you are seeking, you plan to do what and what is your name?
You plan to take a petition to the U.S. Congress
John Ross

23. The Indian Removal Act of 1830
What Congressional legislation allowed Georgia to push the Creek and the Cherokee out of the state and to seize their lands?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830

24. They had to take an oath of allegiance to the governor of the state.
In 1830 what requirement did the Georgia legislature set on whites who lived on Cherokee lands?
They had to take an oath of allegiance to the governor of the state.

25. What was the U.S. Supreme Court case about where Worcester v. Georgia?
A white missionary who was arrested for trying to help the Cherokee people keep their land.

26. What did the U.S. Supreme Court decide in Worcester v. Georgia?
Georgia laws did not apply in the Cherokee Nation and the missionaries should be freed.

27. Who was the chief justice of the U. S
Who was the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled that Cherokee territory was not subject to Georgia’s state law?
John Marshall

28. When Andrew Jackson said of the Supreme Court justice, “He has rendered his decision, now let him enforce it”, what did he mean?
The Supreme Court could not enforce the decision without the support of the president…

29. From 1777 to 1868, why did the state capital of Georgia move?
As the population shifted westward, it was important to keep the capital centrally located.

30. What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?
It distributed up to 1000 acres of Indian lands to any new, especially poor, white settler at no cost.

31. How did Eli Whitney’s invention influence the growth of “King Cotton” in the South?
It removed the seeds from the cotton fiber much easier than by hand, therefore increasing profits.

32. What method was used by Georgia to distribute Cherokee lands to white settlers?
land lotteries

33. According to the map, what was the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase?
The Rocky Mountains

34. According to the map, what was the eastern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase?
The Mississippi River

35. According to the map, how many present-day states were included, in part or in total, in the Louisiana Purchase? 15

36. What was the most significant mechanical invention to Georgia’s economy in the early 1800’s?
The railroad

37. From what country did the U.S. buy The Louisiana Purchase?
France
Napoleon Bonaparte

38. According to the map, in what states was the Cherokee Nation located?
North Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia

39. What distinction is held by the University of Georgia?
UGA is the oldest state-chartered (or land grant) college in the nation.

40. William McIntosh, and all the remaining Creek lands
You are a Creek Warrior and are making plans to murder your chief because you have just learned that he has signed the Treaty of Indian Springs, What is the name of your chief, and what lands did he cede or give up in Georgia? 
William McIntosh, and all the remaining Creek lands

41. In what state was the Indian Territory where all of the trails which the Indians were taken on end?
Oklahoma

42. 4) The Cherokee were relocated to California.
Which statement about the Indian removal is false? 1) Some Cherokee traveled along the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers. 2) Many Cherokee traveled on a route that took them through Tennessee. 3) The Cherokee were taken along several trails to a new location. 4) The Cherokee were relocated to California.
4) The Cherokee were relocated to California.