SS8H4-6: Constitution, Statehood, Native American Removal and Civil War

Question 1

The north was charging the south tariffs but the south nullified them. What does this mean?

Accepted Answer

That it was invalid.

Question 2

The president that wanted to run the Native Americans off of their own land.

Accepted Answer

Andrew Jackson

Question 3

The Compromise of 1850 tried to keep the North and South from splitting by allowing ...

Accepted Answer

California to enter Union in exchange for Fugitive Slave Act

Question 4

The Constitutional Convention delegates got rid of the Articles of Confederation and made the

Accepted Answer

US Constitution

Question 5

Cherokee man that invented the Cherokee alphabet.

Accepted Answer

Sequoyah

Question 6

The Cherokee alphabet was called the ...

Accepted Answer

syllabary

Question 7

States' rights is the belief that the ...

Accepted Answer

interests of the state are more important than the nation.

Question 8

The two signers of the US Constitution that were from Georgia were ...

Accepted Answer

William Few and Abraham Baldwin

Question 9

Atlanta's former name was ...

Accepted Answer

Terminus

Question 10

As new states joined the country, they had to decide whether to be a free state or slave state.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Why did Georgia's railroad industry flourish (grow) during this time period?

Accepted Answer

Trains were being used to ship cotton to sell.

Question 12

The reason that Atlanta was named Terminus was because ...

Accepted Answer

the rail line ended (terminated) there.

Question 13

The Missouri Compromise ...

Accepted Answer

admitted Missouri as a slave state & Maine as a free state.

Question 14

The Creek chief that sold the rest of his people's land and was later executed by them.

Accepted Answer

William McIntosh

Question 15

How did the discovery of gold in Georgia lead to Native Americans land being taken away?

Accepted Answer

The government wanted the land so they could get the gold.

Question 16

The __________ is the set of laws for the United States today.

Accepted Answer

US Constitution

Question 17

Dred Scott was a ...

Accepted Answer

slave that sued for freedom after traveling to free states.

Question 18

The two largest church denominations in Georgia during this time were the

Accepted Answer

Baptist and Methodist

Question 19

The Civil War happened due to which two causes?

Accepted Answer

Slavery and states' rights

Question 20

This was the first public university of its kind & was built to help Georgians get an education

Accepted Answer

University of Georgia

Question 21

The first written plan of government in the United States was ...

Accepted Answer

Articles of Confederation

Question 22

GA passed a law stating that white people couldn't live on Cherokee land. Worcester v GA was a

Accepted Answer

court case brought by Sam Worcester who wanted to live there

Question 23

The invention of the cotton gin led to the increase of slavery because

Accepted Answer

more cotton was being planted and needed to be picked.

Question 24

1/3 of the Cherokee died on the Trail of Tears which moved them to which state?

Accepted Answer

Oklahoma

Question 25

Georgia has had 5 capitals. The cities, in order that they were chosen the capital, is ...

Accepted Answer

Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville and Atlanta

Question 26

The meeting held by the state delegates to change the Articles of Confederation was called the

Accepted Answer

Constitutional Convention of 1787

Question 27

The land lottery was a system of getting people to settle in Georgia by ...

Accepted Answer

letting them purchase tickets in order to win land.

Question 28

The system of giving 1,000 acres of land to people in order to settle the land in Georgia.

Accepted Answer

headright system

Question 29

This machine, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, helped separate the seeds from the cotton.

Accepted Answer

Cotton gin

Question 30

Over the years, Georgia's capital kept moving westward because ...

Accepted Answer

Georgia's population kept moving westward from Savannah.

Question 31

Alexander McGillivray was a ...

Accepted Answer

Creek chief who fought to keep his people's land.

Question 32

Some of the problems with the Articles of Confederation were ...

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 33

The forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia was called the ...

Accepted Answer

Trail of Tears

Question 34

The Yazoo Land Fraud was when Georgia's government ...

Accepted Answer

All of them above

Question 35

The war that probably affected Georgia the most was the ...

Accepted Answer

Civil War

Question 36

Which is correct?

Accepted Answer

Union was the North and Confederacy was the South

Question 37

The Cherokee chief during the Trail of Tears. He fought to protect the land of the Cherokee.

Accepted Answer

John Ross

Question 38

Gold was first found in which of these Georgia cities?

Accepted Answer

Dahlonega

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