SS8H5 Study Guide

1.  What were the two largest Native American tribes that lived in Georgia until the early 1800s?

Creek and Cherokee

2.  What are Georgia’s five capitals? Hint (SALMA)

Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta

3.  Georgia's two main religious denominations between 1780 and 1840 were _Baptist______and ______Methodist______?

4.  Who developed the Cherokee syllabary? Sequoyah

5.  ___Eli Whitney____invented the cotton gin.

6.  The University of Georgia was the first _____land grant______university in the United States.

7.  Which Creek chief signed the Treaty of New York, giving away Creek land between the Oconee and Ogeechee Rivers? Alexander McGillivary

8.  Why did the capital of Georgia continue to be moved during the early 1800s?

Officials wanted the capital in the center of the state

9.  What was the law enacted by Congress that allowed the government to force the Indians to move west of the Mississippi River? Indian Removal Act

10.  Where were advantages of using railroads over wagons and water for shipping?

Cheaper, faster, and could carry more

11.  Who was the last Cherokee chief in Georgia?

John Ross

12.  What was Sequoyah's contribution to the Cherokee culture?

Cherokee Syllabury

13.  What was the purpose of the headright system?

To distribute land to new settlers

14.  Which statement best describes a "land grant university," such as the University of Georgia?

It is a public university

15.  Who was the last Creek chief in Georgia?

William McIntosh

16.  How did the cotton gin change the South's way of life?

Increased profits on cotton and increased the use of slavery

17.  Where was the United States' first gold rush?

Dahlonega Georgia

18.  Before the Yazoo Land Fraud, what two present day states were once part of Georgia?

Alabama and Mississippi

19.  Why were Georgia state officials eager for more people to move into the state?

More representation in Congress, more people to farm and improve the economy

20.  What body of water became Georgia's western boundary after the Yazoo Land Fraud? (Hint: It's still our western boundary today!!)

Chattahoochee River

21.  In what year was the University of Georgia chartered (founded)?

1785

22.  What was the name of the scandal in which legislators were bribed by land companies to allow them to buy Georgia's western lands at bargain prices and sell it for a huge profit?

Yazoo Land Fraud

23.  According to the headright system, how much land did the head of the household get?

200 acres

24.  Terminus was the city of Atlanta’s first name because it was the end of the Western and Atlantic railroad line.