Georgia Crops & Land | Creeks and Cherokees | Free v. Slave | Civil War #1 | Civil War #2 |
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What are cotton and tobacco.
The two most important agricultural crops in Georgia.
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What is the Indian Removal Act.
John Ross challenged this in the court case Worchester v. Georgia.
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What is the Missouri Compromise.
The purpose of this was to maintain a balance of slave and free states.
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Who is Alexander Stephens.
Vice-President of the Confederacy.
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What is Andersonville.
A Georgia prison camp where 13,000 died in one year.
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What is the cotton gin.
This invention meant that Georgia needed more slaves to handle the increased production of cotton.
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What is Oklahoma.
All Indians in Georgia were to be moved to this state.
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What is Popular Sovereignty.
The people's vote.
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What is the Anaconda Plan.
North's plan to divide the south along the Mississippi River and blockade the south.
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Who is Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy.
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What is the Headright System.
100 acres for the head of household and 50 acres for each family member.
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What is The Trail of Tears.
The nickname for the forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia.
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What is the Fugitive Slave Law.
This required all runaway slaves to be returned to their owners.
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What is Battle of Fort Sumter.
First major battle in Georgia during the Civil War.
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What is the Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest single day of the war.
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What is the land lottery.
Indian lands were illegally given to settlers as a result of this game of chance.
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What is gold.
This discovery helped push the Cherokee Indians out of their lands in North Georgia.
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What is the Underground Railroad.
An organized escape plan for southern slaves.
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Who is William T. Sherman.
Led the "March to the Sea".
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What is Southern Independence.
Because the confederacy did not agree to the Emancipation Proclamation, it suggests that this, not slavery, was most important to the South.
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What is the Yazoo Land Fraud.
This event led to Georgia's western boundary being moved from the Mississippi River to the Chattahoochee River.
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What is New Echota.
The capital of the Cherokee Nation.
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What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
This freed all slaves in rebellion states that did not stop fighting.
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What is land and resources.
The capture of Atlanta divided Georgia and destroyed much of these two things.
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What is States' Rights.
The thought that the national government has no right to tell states how to operate.
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