Unit 5 Review SS8H4

Question 1

What was the purpose of the cotton gin?

Accepted Answer

To separate the cotton fibers from the seeds

Question 2

What was the major negative effect of the cotton gin?

Accepted Answer

An increase in slavery

Question 3

What was Atlanta's original name that means "end of the line"?

Accepted Answer

Terminus

Question 4

Who refused to enforce Worchester vs. Ga?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Jackson

Question 5

Georgia had more track of railroads than any other southern state

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Who is this? Chief of Cherokee during Indian Removal Act; Fought to help them keep their land

Accepted Answer

John Ross

Question 7

How was the majority of Georgia's land distributed?

Accepted Answer

Land lotteries

Question 8

UGA was declared a land grant institution by

Accepted Answer

The Morrill Act of 1872

Question 9

Georgia's capital moved from Savannah to Augusta not because of population, but due to...

Accepted Answer

The advancement of the British military

Question 10

In UGA's charter it states that education should be available to all, not just the......

Accepted Answer

Wealthy

Question 11

What event is shown in this drawing?

Accepted Answer

mining for gold

Question 12

During what time period was the land lottery?

Accepted Answer

1805-1833

Question 13

Who bribed GA govt. to buy land near Yazoo River?

Accepted Answer

Land Companies

Question 14

After the American Revolution, which of the following is NOT a way that Georgia grew?

Accepted Answer

Factories

Question 15

From 1805-1833, Georgia had _______ land lotteries

Accepted Answer

8

Question 16

What was Georgia's second capital?

Accepted Answer

Augusta

Question 17

Georgia's first land distibution policy, where land was given away based on the # per household

Accepted Answer

Headright system

Question 18

What discovery led to the Cherokee losing their land in GA?

Accepted Answer

Gold in Dahlonega

Question 19

Which Georgian gave up his seat as senator in order to overturn the Yazoo land sale?

Accepted Answer

James Jackson

Question 20

Why did the Georgia General Assembly vote to build the Western and Atlantic railroad?

Accepted Answer

To provide a trade route to the Midwestern United States.

Question 21

The cotton gin lead to more cotton plantations

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Who was allowed to participate in the Land Lottery?

Accepted Answer

White males, orphans, widows

Question 23

What was UGA's first mascot? Bonus Question!

Accepted Answer

goat

Question 24

The removal of the Cherokee from GA is remembered as the?

Accepted Answer

Trail of Tears

Question 25

Who invented the cotton gin?

Accepted Answer

Eli Whitney

Question 26

Where was the 3rd capital of GA(Louisville) located in Georgia?

Accepted Answer

The Ogeechee river

Question 27

Which of the following was NEVER a Georgia capital?

Accepted Answer

Athens

Question 28

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ruling that Cherokee territory was not subject to state law

Accepted Answer

John Marshall

Question 29

What did the "right" in the headright system mean?

Accepted Answer

"head" of a family had "right" to 200-1000 acres of land.

Question 30

Who was appointed by Lyman Hall to write UGA's charter and served as the first president?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Baldwin

Question 31

At first, Georgia distributed the land under the headright system.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

What was the "Yazoo Land Fraud" ?

Accepted Answer

Georgia's worst political scandal

Question 33

Who is described by the phrases? Creek chief• Signed a treaty that gave up Creek land• Murdered

Accepted Answer

William McIntosh

Question 34

Who did the land companies share the profit from the land with?

Accepted Answer

GA's legislature

Question 35

Whose land was sold during the land lotteries?

Accepted Answer

Creek and Cherokee Indians

Question 36

When was UGA established?

Accepted Answer

1785

Question 37

The controversy surrounding the Yazoo Act is known as the

Accepted Answer

Yazoo Land Fraud

Question 38

What was the main reason Georgia's capitals kept changing?

Accepted Answer

The westward movement of the population

Question 39

What was a direct result of the cotton gin and the want for cotton going up?

Accepted Answer

expansion of slavery

Question 40

More Westward expansions of settlers was not a result of Indian land cessions.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 41

Which Georgia Governor approved the charter for UGA?

Accepted Answer

Lyman Hall

Question 42

What did the "head" in the headright system stand for?

Accepted Answer

A white male who was "head" of the family

Question 43

This sold the land that would become Alabama and Mississippi to four land companies

Accepted Answer

Yazoo Act

Question 44

After the Revolution, Georgia's western border stretched to the

Accepted Answer

Mississippi River

Question 45

After they got caught the US Govt. forced GA to cede lands West of the Chattahoochee River

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

The intent of the Indian Removal Act was to......

Accepted Answer

remove the Native American from the eastern US

Question 47

The cotton gin was used to

Accepted Answer

Clean cotton

Unit 5 Review SS8H4

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Unit 5 Review SS8H4

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