REVIEW FOR PROGRESS AND
CHANGE/INDIAN REMOVAL
TEST ON 12.9.14
Robertson
Question 1
1. Which invention or
development in the early 1800s
quickly led to cotton being the
primary cash crop grown in the
state of Georgia?
Answer - Question 1
The cotton gin
Question 2
2. Who invented the cotton
gin, and in what year?
Answer - Question 2
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Eli Whitney
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1793
Bonus– 2 points
What is the name of the state
governing body which was
responsible for chartering both
UGA and GA’s first two railway
lines?
BONUS ANSWER– 2points
GA’s General Assembly (legislative
branch)
Question 3
3. What 2 things does the
invention of the cotton gin
create more demand for in
Georgia?
Answer - Question 3
3. Land so they could plant
additional cotton which was in
high demand across the globe
and slaves so they could have
the labor needed to plant and
harvest it successfully.
Question 4
4. What are two effects of
railroads being built here in
GA in the early 1800s?
Answer - Question 4
1.
2.
Faster travel time for
passengers and goods
The city of Atlanta is
established
SURPRISE BONUS– 2 points
What was Atlanta’s first
name?
SURPRISE BONUS– 2 points
Terminus – meaning end of
the line (last stop on railway
line)
Question 5
5. What was the name of the
major railroad line that helped
make Atlanta the hub of freight
trade in the South?
Answer - Question 5
The Western and Atlantic
Railroad
Question 6
6. Which major GA university
was chartered in as the nation’s
first land-grant university? In
what year?
Answer - Question 6
The University of Georgia
in 1785
Question 7
Who (what entity) grants the
land for a land-grant university?
Question 7
The federal government
donates the land that the
school is built on.
Question 8
What were the two
requirements of students
admitted in UGA’s early
days.?
Answer - Question 8
White
 Male
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Question 9
9. What 2 reasons caused
Baptist and Methodist
churches to spread rapidly in
GA in the early 1800s?
Answer - Question 9
1.
2.
Fewer education and
training requirements
You could start a church
by simply stating God
“called” you to do it
Question 10
10. Why was the GA state
capital moved so many times
before the Civil War?
Answer - Question 10
As the states population
shifts north-westward, the
capital moves to where the
majority of the people are.
SURPRISE BONUS– 2 points
Name GA’s 5 state capitals
in chronological order.
SURPRISE BONUS ANSWER– 2 points


SALMA
Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
Question 11
Which type of land
allocation system was
used first in GA?
Answer – Question 11
Headright System
Bonus– 2 points
12. Under the Headright system,
how much land do the following
people get:
 White, male head of household
 Wife
 Kid(s)
 Slaves (each up to 10)
Answer - Question 12
White, male head of household =
200
 Wife = 50
 Kid(s) = 50 each
 Slaves = 50 each up to 10 slaves
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Question 13
13. Four land companies bribe
members of the General
Assembly into selling lands for
a fraction of the real value.
Name the fraud and the
Georgia capital at the time.
Answer - Question 13
13. Yazoo Land Fraud–
capital, Louisville
Question 14
14. Name 2 of the ways
the federal government
stepped in to “clean up”
GA’s mess after the Yazoo
Land Fraud?
Answer - Question 14
1.
2.
3.
Fed. govt. pays $4 mil. to those
who already bought land to give
it back
They give GA $1.25 mil. for rest
of Yazoo lands.
They promise to help GA get rid
of Native Americans so whites
can have more land to settle on.
Question 15
15. Which way of giving out land
on GA came last and was based on
random luck after a small entry fee
was paid?
Answer - Question 15
Land Lottery
SURPRISE BONUS- 2 points
How many land lotteries
were held in Georgia’s
history?
SURPRISE BONUS- 2 points
8
Question 16
16. Why were there blank slips
included in the lottery?
Answer - Question 16
16. There were always more
people who wanted land than
there was available land in each
lottery.
Bonus- 2 points
17. Which of the following people got
an additional chance to win land if
their name wasn’t drawn? (PICK 3)
Bonus- 2 points
Question 18
18. The land lottery gave out what
percentage of land in Georgia?
Answer - Question 18
¾ or 75%
Question 19
19. What were the names of the 2
Native American nations living in
GA during this time?
Answer - Question 19


Creek
Cherokee
Question 20
20. Chief Alexander McGillivray
and Chief William McIntosh were
both members of what Indian
nation?
Answer - Question 20
Creek
Question 21
21. Sequoyah and Chief John Ross
were both members of what Indian
nation?
Question 21
Cherokee
Question 22
22. If enforced, was the ruling of
his case, Worcester v. GA, good or
bad for the Cherokee? Why?
Answer - Question 22
Good. Because it said that the
Cherokee were their own
“sovereign” nation.
Question 23
23. What happened in the
Cherokee capital of New Echota in
Dec. 1835?
Question 23
23. Three Cherokee leaders signed
the Treaty of New Echota giving up
all remaining Cherokee lands in the
Southeast to the federal
government.
A Vocabulary Review Activity
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The
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Chief William McIntosh
The
President Andrew
Jackson
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The
Chief John Ross
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The
Sequoyah
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The
Chief Alexander
McGillivray
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The
John Marshall
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The
Removal
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The
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The discovery of gold in
Georgia
The
Trail of Tears
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The
Samuel Worcester
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The
Assimilation
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The
New Echota
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