1. Head right System - GA's system of land distribution in 1782 where each head-of-household was given 200 acres of land and an additional 50 acres for each family member and each slave up to 1,000 acres.
  1. Cotton Gin - A machine invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney that separated the seeds from cotton. It boosted the production and sale of cotton in the South.It increase slavery
  2. Land Lottery - The system used to distribute the newly acquired lands from the Native Americans as a change from the Head Right System which was plagued by the Yazoo Land fraud.
  3. Yazoo Land Fraud - Most widely known land fraud in the U.S.in1795; bribery of the state legislature to create the Yazoo Land Act that allowed land companies to buy large amounts of land at a small price and then resell it in smaller portions to make a huge profit.
  4. Compact of 1802 -GA agreed to give up all lands in the Yazoo Land Fraud in exchange for $1,250,000 and the promise to remove the Native Americans.
  5. Louisiana Purchase - The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, that doubled the size of the country and offered more opportunities for westward expansion.
  6. War of 1812 - A war congress declares with Great Britain in response to its increased interference in America's trade with France.
  7. Andrew Jackson - Became a General in the U.S. Army after his victory at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in the War of 1812; 7th U.S. President; the first president from West of the Appalachian Mountains.
  8. Alexander McGillivray - Principal Chief of the Upper Creek in 1787, who lead the Upper Creeks during the Oconee War in attacks on white settlers that moved into their territory; did not recognize the treaty giving up Native American territories east of the Oconee River.
  9. William McIntosh - a prominent chief of the Creek Nation between 1800 and the removal of the Creeks from Indian Territory in 1839.
  10. Sequoyah - A Cherokee who was a scholar; he invented a syllabary for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843)
  11. John Ross - The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828-1866; He was only 1/8th Cherokee and he owned several plantations and stores.
  12. Worcester v. Georgia - a case brought to the Supreme Court which ruled that the Cherokee Nation was a separate, distinct nation with its own laws; Georgia's law was not valid in the Cherokee nation.
  13. John Marshall - Chief justice of the Supreme Court who established principles of the U.S. Constitutional law between1755-1835.
  14. Trail of Tears -The tragic removal and journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland in North Georgia to Indian territory between 1838 and 1839.; thousands of Cherokees died.
  15. Preamble – An introduction to an official statement or document
  1. Grievances – real or imagined wrong or other cause for a complaint or protest for unfair treatment.
  2. Declarations – A formal or explicit statement or announcement.
  3. Constitution– The formal doucument which outlines the principles of law by which our nation is governed; a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledge to be governed.
  4. University of Georgia – The first university in America to be created/funded by a state government in 1785 and was founded by Abraham Baldwin, chartered by GA General Assembly, helped lay the foundation for the American system of public higher education.
  5. Georgia’s Five Capitals – Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta were all the five capitals of GA.
  6. Westward Expansion – after Louisiana purchase (1803) doubling the country, when .seven million Americans traveled Westward in hopes of securing land.