Social Studies Study Guide

• Why was the University of GA a revolutionary idea in 1785?


  It gave public education to not just wealthy but all people because all people have a right to an education.
• In what year did the university of GA finally open its doors?

  It opened its door in 1801.
• Name GA five capital cities in order for earliest to most recent?

  Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta.
• Why did GA state capital keep moving westward?

  GA first capital was Savannah but as more and more people came the location became inconvenient. This made people move to Augusta but still Georgians were unhappy so GA citizens wanted to move to a more central and accessible location.
• What did the city of Terminus (now Atlanta) have to offer during this time period?

  The town of Terminus (now Atlanta) was chosen due to its accessible railroads.
• After the American Revolution, what was Georgia's first approach to land distribution?

  The first approach was called the "headright system." Under the "headright system," Georgia gave thousands of acres of land to soldiers who had fought during the Revolution. 
• What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?

  A fraudulent land deal that took place in GA in the late 18th century, involving bribery of state legislators and the sale of millions of acres of land.
• What was the result of the Yazoo Land Fraud? The biggest result of theYazoo LandFraud was the Supreme Court case Fletcher v. Peck. The court ruled in 1810 that contracts could not be retroactively negated, and marked the first time the Supreme Court overturned a state law.
• Which invention helped GA become one of the top cotton producers in the world?

  The Cotton Gin.
• What was the purpose of the cotton gin?

  The Cotton Gin provided a faster way to remove the seeds from cotton.
• What effect did the cotton gin have on slave labor across the south?

  It increased the amount of slaves because people kept buying more and more land which made the slaves have to pick more cotton.
• What transportation method did cotton growers begin using in order to get cotton to the market in Savannah as fast as possible.

  Steam powered boats and railroads.
• Which side did GA Native American tribes side with during the Revolutionary War? Why?

  They sided with the British because if they won the war they would return to their land.
• Why was William McIntosh murdered by fellow creeks?

  He went against Creek laws of land selling and was executed by the tribe.
• How did the Dahlonega Gold Rush impact the Cherokee?

  The discovery of gold was one of the major reasons behind Cherokee Removal, in which the state of Georgia expelled Cherokees from their ancestral lands in 1838. 
• In your opinion, how might the fate of the Cherokee Nation have been different if gold had not been discovered in Dahlonega, GA?

  I think the Cherokee would not have had to leave their land and the GA people would not have kicked them out.
• How did Cherokee react to the Indian Removal Act?

  They resisted against the act although they went through violence attacks.
• Who was the Cherokee chief who argued the Worcester V. Georgia case before the Supreme Court?

  Chief John Ross.
• What was Chief Justice John Marshall's ruling in Worcester V. GA?

  He wrote that the Indian nations were independent political communities and had their own rights.
• How did President Andrew Jackson feel about the Supreme Court's ruling in the Worcester v. GA case?

  He ignored the ruling but later issued a proclamation.
• What was the "Trail of Tears?"

  The forced migration of Native Americans from the South and Southeast.
• Why was it known as the "Trail of Tears?"

  Because of the devastating affects it had on the tribes.
• What is a land lottery?

  GA conducted eight rounds of land distributions called lotteries. Four Lotteries were held after the discovery of gold. Under the lottery system, surveyors divided Cherokee land.
• S.A.L.M.A stands for?

  Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta.
• The University of GA is?

  A public university that was opened in 1801 for all not just rich because all people deserved a right to an education.
• Creek Indians?

  Creek, Muskogean-speaking North American Indians who originally occupied a huge expanse of the flatlands of what are now Georgia and Alabama
• What is the headright system?

  The right to receive fifty acres of land per head.
• Railroads?

  A way of transportation for people and goods.
• Who is Eli Whitney?

  The inventor of the Cotton Gin
• What was the Redstick war?

  The Creek War (also the Red Stick War; the Creek Civil War), was a regional conflict between opposing Native American factions, European powers, and the United States during the early 19th century.
• Treaty of Indian Springs?

  The Treaty of Indian Springs, also known as the Second Treaty of Indian Springs, was an agreement between the federal government and a minority of Creek Indians, led by William McIntosh, which sold the remaining Creek land in Georgia for $200,000.
• Cherokee Indians?

  The Cherokee are North American Indians of Iroquoian lineage who constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization of the Americas. 
• Nullification Crisis?

  nullification crisis, in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.