Sydney Singleton and Emily Cranney

Events in which Georgians could “gamble” for land.
Winners could purchase acres of land from the state government.

Republican president, elected in
1860. He apposed slavery in the new territories upsetting southern leaders. His election inspired South Carolina,
Georgia, and a number of other southern states to succeed from the Union.

Statement issued by Georgia’s government, when it elected to support the Compromise of
1850. It stated that, while the state supported the compromise, it would not hesitate to resist any effort by congress to outlaw slavery in the new territories.

System in which white males considered to be the heads of families were entitled to purchase a certain amount of land with the understanding that they would settle it within a few months and make it productive.

Factories that began to open in the south where cotton is used to produce finished products.

Georgia’s first state university, first charted, and state-supported university in the nation.

UGA

Cherokee chief who served as head of the
Cherokee Nation. He served as chief even through the Cherokees march to Oklahoma

John Ross

The belief that states have the right to ignore
(nullify) any federal law they believe violates the Constitution.

Doctrine of Nullification

Episode in which gold was discovered in parts of Northern Georgia.

Gold Rush of 1829

President of the US at the time of Worchester vs. Georgia. He supported Indian removal and would not come to the Cherokee’s aid.
His unwillingness to help the tribe eventually led to the Trail of Tears.

Andrew Jackson

Incident in Georgia’s history in which the state legislator approved selling large portions of
Georgia’s western territory for roughly 1 cent per acre in exchange for bribes to government officials.

Yazoo Land Fraud

Main cash crop in Georgia and through out the south through out most of the 1800’s.

Cotton

City that served as the capital of Georgia between 1786 and 1804.

Louisville

Nickname given to the Us south’s cotton industry because it was the basis of the region’s economy.

King Cotton- Cotton Kingdom

Georgia congressman who played a key role in getting Georgia to accept the Compromise of
1850. He was also a cooperationist who voted against secession at the State
Convention in 1861. He eventually became vice president of the confederacy and served in that capacity through out the war.

Alexander Stephens

Georgia city that grew because it became a major railroad hub during the mid 1800’s.

Atlanta

Major Native American tribe in Georgia. They were prominent in the south and western
Georgia, and were eventually forced of their land by the treaty on Indian Springs.

The Creeks

Signed between the Creeks and the state of
Georgia in 1825. It gave all, of the Creeks’ land to Georgia and made many Creeks very angry.

Treaty of Indian Springs

Major Native American in northern Georgia; had their own written language and were eventually removed from their land, in part due to the discovery of gold. They ultimately were forced to march the Trail of Tears all the way to Oklahoma.

The Cherokee

Political compromise reached in 1820 that stated all new northern states would be free and all new southern sates would allow slaves. It also admitted Maine to the union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

Missouri Compromise

Cherokee that developed a syllabary that allowed the Cherokee to have their own written language.

Sequoyah

Churches that had the most impact in postrevolutionary Georgia due to their willingness to use new methods to reach people along the frontier.

Methodist and Baptist

Chief Justice of the Supreme court at the time of Worchester vs. Georgia.

John Marshall

Federal law that reignited the slavery debate by allowing popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in the previously free territory of Georgia.

Kansas Nebraska Act

The name given to the journey the Cherokee were forced to take from Georgia and the
Carolinas to Oklahoma it got its name because the Cherokee were forced to leave their homes and many died along the way.

Trail of Tears

The idea that states should be allowed to settle most matters themselves. The power states have to govern what goes on inside their border.

States Rights

New invention in 1739 that made the process of harvesting cotton easier and led to cotton becoming the key cash crop in Georgia and throughout the South.

Cotton Gin

Made it easier and more efficient to ship goods to port cities and other cities/states.

Railroads

Institution in which African Americans were owned like property. It caused great division between the north, where the economy didn’t depend on slave labor, and the south, where it did.

Slavery

City that served as the capital of Georgia between 1804-1868.

Milledgeville

Political compromise that admitted California as a free state in 1850 and allowed other western territories to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.

Compromise of 1850

Supreme court case in which the court ruled that Georgia Law doesn’t apply on Cherokee land. Although the Cherokee originally thought that it would allow them to keep their land it ultimately couldn’t prevent their forced removal.

Worchester vs. Georgia

Supreme Court case in which the court denied a slave named Dred Scott both his freedom and the right to sue. It also struck down the
Missouri Compromise by stating that no state could deny a slave owner of his “property” with out due process.

Dred Scott Case

The new “country” formed by the southern states that seceded.

Confederate States of America

Creek chief who signed the Treaty of Indian
Springs. His actions so outraged many Creeks that some of them stabbed him to death and took his scalp.

William McIntosh

Circuit riders where associated with whom?

Methodists

Events in which Georgians had the chance to win the right to buy land from the state was known as…….

Land Lotteries

Atlanta formed MAINLY as:

A railroad hub

What is a statement that a secessionist would most likely say……………

“ The south must break away from the union before the Federal Government rips away our rights.”

What did president Andrew Jackson mean when he said “John Marshall has made his decision now let him enforce it.”

He would not act to ensure Georgia respected the decision of the supreme court.

The Georgia Platform was important because it what?

It stated that Georgia would not support the
Compromise of 1850, so long as the federal government did not outlaw slavery in the western territories.

What election most upset the Georgians?

The election of Abraham Lincoln