Study Guide for Chapter 6 Short Answer – Please answer a minimum of 10 questions
a day. For each ten questions, we will give you time in class and the rest of the day’s
10 are homework.
1. What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention held in 1787 in
Philadelphia?
To revise the Articles of Confederation
2. Who Represented Georgia at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
William Few and Abraham Baldwin
3. The 1787 U.S. Constitution established ________________ houses for the
legislative branch of government.
Bicameral (two)
4. What were three issues that created conflict in the development of the
government structure in 1787?
The inclusion of slaves in the population count, the division of the legislature into two
houses – Senate and House of Representatives, and basing representation in the
federal government on population and size.
5. What was a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
The federal government had little power
6. What natural boundaries marked the eastern and western boundaries of the
Louisiana Purchase?
Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River
7. What two Georgia cities served as the state’s capital during the late 1700s?
Savannah and Augusta
8. Which branch of state government was the most powerful under the Georgia
constitution adopted in 1789?
Legislative Branch
9. What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?
It distributed Indian lands to new settlers
10.
What scandal took place when Georgia’s governor and some legislatures
were bribed to sell public land to private developers at below-market prices?
Yazoo land fraud
11.
Why did Georgia give up land claims in what is now Mississippi and
Alabama? The federal government paid millions to settle the Yazoo land fraud
and disputed Georgia’s right to the land
12.
What caused confusion over land ownership in Georgia after the
Revolutionary War? Lands were taken from the Tories, given away, returned to
the Tories, and taken again.
13.
After the Revolutionary War, Georgia’s major crops were what?
Cotton and Tobacco
14.
How did Georgia’s farmers move their products to markets prior to the
railroads?
Riverboats, ferries, and wagon trains
15.
In the mind-1800’s, Georgia’s main railroad company was the_____.
Western and Atlantic Railroad
16.
What were the original names of Atlanta? Terminus and Marthasville
17.
In the early 1800s, which items were considered luxuries by settlers living
on Georgia’s frontier farms? Eggs and cheese
18.
The most important mechanical invention to Georgia’s economy in the early
1800s was the _______. Cotton Gin
19.
Which Georgia city was the LEAST important in the early 1800s? Atlanta
20.
With which church was Bishop Richard Allen associated in the early
1800s? African Methodist Episcopal Church
21.
What was the most damaging result of the Yazoo land fraud in Georgia?
Georgia lost money as well as lands west of the Chattahoochee River
22.
Describe a “land grant university” like the University of Georgia.
The land for the college is donated by the federal government
23.
What was Georgia’s earliest college for women?
Georgia Female College (Wesleyan)
24.
What was the major reason that the United States declared war on Great
Britain in 1812?
Seize land in the West and Canada
25.
After the War of 1812, how did the United States acquire Florida from
Spain? The United States purchased Florida for $5 million from Spain who
wanted to avoid war
26.
What was George Gist’s (Sequoyah) major contribution to the Cherokee
culture?
He developed a syllabary so the Cherokee could have a written language
27.
What was the first Native American newspaper? Cherokee Phoenix
28.
The permanent Cherokee capital was located in __New Echota, Georgia.
29.
Who was involved in the Oconee War? Settlers and the Creek
30.
Who participated in the Treaty of Indian Springs, which ceded the last
Creek lands in Georgia? Governor George Troup and Chief McIntosh
31.
What discovery led to the final Indian removal from Georgia? The
discovery of gold in Dahlonega
32.
What nickname was given to the forced removal of the Cherokee from
Georgia? The Trail of Tears
33.
What land acquisition allowed Georgia to obtain the most land? The
Louisiana Purchase
34.
Benjamin Franklin’s most famous publication was Poor Richard’s
Almanac_____.
35.
What was the incident most directly responsible for the Creek War?
Red Sticks’ attack on Fort Mims
36.
What three “events” affected industrialization during the period of western
expansion?
Inventions such as the cotton gin, reaper, and cotton spinning wheels; Loans for
land purchases to increase commercial farming; abundant power and a supply of
laborers for manufacturing
37.
What led to America’s change to a “market economy”?
The development of commercial agriculture
38.
What 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
39.
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
40.
What national “symbol” came out of the War of 1812?
The Star-Spangled Banner
41.
Why did the authors of the Articles of Confederation want a federal
government with little power? They had just freed themselves from the
domination of a strong, powerful government in Great Britain
42.
Georgia’s Constitution of 1789 gave the legislature the power to _appoint
members of the Senate__.
43.
What were some of the consequences of the depression that followed the
Panic of 1837?
Because people had little money to buy goods, many businesses closed; Because
banks did not have enough cash to cover withdrawals, many banks failed; because
many farmers and planters could not pay the bank notes on theirlands, they lost their
farms
44.
Which inventions contributed directly to the industrialization of the United
States during the period of western expansion?
The Franklin pot-bellied stove
45.
Why did the nation move to a market economy during the period of western
expansion?
Farmers turned to commercial agriculture and grew cash crops.
46.
What practices had the potential to hurt farmers in the new market
economy?
More farmers borrowed money on their lands while waiting for crops to sell; more
farmers took risks on prices when deciding when to take crops to markets;
farmers borrowed heavily to buy more land to increase production for the
marketplace.
47.
What are some characteristics that describe America’s movement into the
industrial age?
The change from subsistence agriculture to commercial agriculture; investors
willing to invest money in expanding factories and production processes;
profitable innovations and invention in farming and manufacturing equipment