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Question 1

What transportation method did farmers use to move cotton quickly?

Accepted Answer

Railroads

Question 2

What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?

Accepted Answer

GA Legislators were bribed to sell land at low prices, GA Legislators burned the Yazoo Act on the capital steps.

Question 3

What did the city of Terminus have to offer during this time period?

Accepted Answer

the end of a rail road line

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Cotton Gin?

Accepted Answer

To clean cotton faster

Question 5

How did the Cherokee react to the Indian Removal Act?

Accepted Answer

The took their case to the Supreme Court.

Question 6

What effect did the cotton gin have on the save population in the state?

Accepted Answer

As cotton production increased, slave population increased

Question 7

Who was the Cherokee Chief that tried to fight Cherokee removal?

Accepted Answer

John Ross

Question 8

How was GA's land distributed from 1805 to 1833?

Accepted Answer

Land Lottery

Question 9

Why was William McIntosh murdered by fellow Creeks?

Accepted Answer

He ceded the remaining Creek land in GA.

Question 10

In what year was UGA established?

Accepted Answer

1785

Question 11

Which invention helped GA become the top cotton producer in the world?

Accepted Answer

Cotton Gin

Question 12

Why did Georgia's state capitals keep moving?

Accepted Answer

To keep the capital centrally located to the population

Question 13

How did Pres. Andrew Jackson feel about the court ruling?

Accepted Answer

He ordered the removal of the Cherokee from GA., He refused to enforce the law

Question 14

Name the 5 capital cities in chronological order.

Accepted Answer

Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta

Question 15

How was land distributed under the Headright system?

Accepted Answer

white heads of households got 200 acres

Question 16

Why was UGA a revolutionary idea?

Accepted Answer

It was a first state-supported land grant university.

Question 17

How did the Dahlonega Gold Rush impact the Cherokee?

Accepted Answer

The Indian Removal Act was signed, White settlers moved onto their land, Jackson refused to enforce Worcester v. Georgia., White settlers pressured government to remove the indians

Question 18

What was the "Trail of Tears"?

Accepted Answer

Cherokee were forced to leave GA and go to Oklahoma., The forced removal of the Cherokee for the Southeast, Forced march where 4,000 Cherokee died., Cherokee were forced to march 800 miles to Oklahoma.

Question 19

What was Georgia's first approach to land distribution?

Accepted Answer

Headright

Question 20

What was the result of the Yazoo Land fraud?

Accepted Answer

Citizens were furious, voted the Legislators out of office, Act was repealed and burned on the courthouse steps., Land west of Chattahoochee was ceded to US Government, New border is the Chattahoochee River

Question 21

What was Chief Justice John Marshall's ruling in Worcester v. GA?

Accepted Answer

GA could not extend its laws into the Cherokee Nation.

Question 22

What was the land promised to the Cherokee after their removal?

Accepted Answer

Oklahoma

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