1.Who Served As Counselor for the Cherokee Nation and Signed the New Echota Treaty in 1835?
Statehood and Western Expansion Study Guide
People
1.Who served as counselor for the Cherokee Nation and signed the New Echota treaty in 1835?
2.Who was the Creek chief who ordered attacks on pioneers in order to protect his tribe and signed the Treaty of New York?
3.Who invented a written language based on the spoken language of the Cherokee?
4.Who signed the Second Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825 and was brutally executed outside his own home by hostile Creek faction?
5.Who was the missionary who defied a Georgia law banning whites from living within the Cherokee Nation without consent of the state government and served four years in prison for his defiance?
6.Who finally admitted defeat with the Indian Removal Act and once in Oklahoma helped the Cherokee to re-establish the Cherokee Nation and oversaw the creation of government buildings, schools and farms?
7.Who pushed the “Indian Removal Act” through Congress and totally ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Cherokee Nation was sovereign?
8.Who was the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled in favor of the Cherokee (against the state of Georgia) stating they were a sovereign nation?
Events
9.What forced the expulsion of the Cherokee from the Southeast to Indian Territory?
10.What was the 1832 Supreme Court case that upheld the Cherokee Nation’s claim that it was a sovereign nation and thus could not be trampled upon by the state of Georgia?
11.What was George Washington’s 1790 Treaty with Alexander McGillivray removing Creeks from land east of the Oconee and prohibiting settlers from moving west of the boundary? (It was not followed)
12.What enabled the Cherokee nation to communicate via the written word and was used in developing a constitution and the Cherokee Nation’s national newspaper?
13.What was inspiration for thousands to flood Cherokee land and totally ignore the claims of the natives in the area?
14.For what treaty did William McIntosh sign away the remaining Creek land in Georgia after taking a $200,000 bribe from an Indian agent?
15.What is the oldest state sponsored university?
16.Describe a “land grant university”.
17.The capital of Georgia was moved many times in response to what factor?
18.The records from the Yazoo land fraud were burned in public in which Georgia capital city?
19.By 1860, what were the two largest church denominations in Georgia?
20.The First African Baptist Church in Georgia was established in 1788 under the leadership of Andrew Bryan in which city?
21.What denomination was associated with the English Monarch?
22.Which church sent circuit riders to frontier settlements to provide monthly services?
23.What is the “Georgia Female Academy” known as today?
24.What was every head of household entitled to under the “Headright System?”
25.What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?
26.Describe the Yazoo land fraud.
27.Name one of the impacts of the Yazoo Land Fraud.
28.How was the Georgia land lottery different from the Headright System?
29.What lasting effect did Eli Whitney have on Georgia?
30.What two crops were the driving forces in Georgia’s economy following the Revolutionary War?
31.What railroad company owned most of the railroads in Georgia?
32.What was Cyrus McCormick’s impact on farming?
33.What was the Cherokee Phoenix?
34.What was New Echota?
35.Why was Sequoyah’s Syllabary significant to the Cherokee?
36.Why were Georgians upset about the Treaty of New York?
37.Why was McIntosh executed?
38.What was the difference between “red sticks” and “white sticks”?
39.Which was America’s first declaration of war after the constitution was written?
40.What does Terminus mean?
41.Which statement best explains the outcome of the War of 1812?
42.What is the order of Georgia’s capitals?
43.In 1803, what event caused the U.S. to double in size?
44.According to the original Charter of 1732, Georgia’s original western border reached to ____?
45.After the Yazoo Land Fraud, Georgia’s western border moved to which river?
46.After the French and Indian War, Georgia’s western border moved to which river?