KEY FACTS & TERMS –Textbook Chapter 6 / Digital Online textbook Chapter 9 & 10
Name ______K E Y ______date ______class ______
Key Term/Word /
Definition/Explanation or “Why is this important?” /
If an event, when did it occur? /
Visual Representation- Manifest Destiny
/ The belief that America was destined to expand Westward to the Pacific Coast. Citizens believed it was their “right” as well as their “purpose” to expand westward. / 1845
- Headright system
/ The white male “head” of a household was guaranteed land
200 acres plus 50 more for additional family members
Veterans were given greater amounts of land than non-veterans. / 1775 - 1800
- Lottery System
/ A land distribution system where settlers purchased “chances” to go into a drawing for lot or parcels of land.
Veterans, Widows, Parents with children had more chances / 1802-1840
- Land Speculation
/ The process of buying land cheaply with the intent of selling the land at a higher price making large profits for the seller
Land Speculators bought land around the Yazoo River
- Yazoo Land Fraud
/ A political and economic scandal in Georgia where GA legislators were bribed by land speculators to sell GA land to land companies who would sell to the GA settlers / 1845
- Louisiana Purchase
/ Land purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson that almost doubled the land mass of the USAfor $15 million (3 cents per acre). Included the area between the Appalachian Mtns to the Rocky Mtns / 1803
- GA Capital Changes
/ S= Savannah
A= Augusta
L= Louisville
M= Milledgeville
A= Atlanta (once called Terminus then Marthasville) / 1733
1786
1796
1807
1868 / NOTE: Capitals moved with the population. As settlers moved west, so did the capital
- Transportation: Waterways
/ Ocean Ports then inland waterways were very important to Georgia trade and economy. Invention of steam powered boats increased efficiency along inland waterways. Ferries were also used often.
- Transportation:
RoadsTurnpike / Early roads were poor and difficult to travel.
Began making “turnpike” roads or “toll roads” that travelers had to pay a fee to use.
- Transportation: Western & Atlantic Railroad
/ Steam powered locomotives were very important to Georgia’s economic and industrial development. Railroad built across the state added vital infrastructure and trade routes. First Georgia Railroad company was the Western & Atlantic Company which built the majority of railroads in Georgia. / 1836
Key Term/Word /
Definition/Explanation or “Why is this important?” /
If the term is an event, when did it occur? /
Visual Representation- Georgia Gold Rush
/ Gold was found in Dahlonega, GA by white settlers on Cherokee lands. This created a turning point in the Cherokee land acquisition policy of the USA where the Federal Govt wanted all Indian land. / 1828-1829
- Justice John Marshall
/ Supreme Court Justice who ruled in
Worchester vs. Georgia that Cherokee lands were not subject to Georgia laws. Ruled in support of white missionaries who lived among the Cherokee. / 1830
- Sequoyah
/ Important Cherokee citizen who created the written Syllabary of the Cherokee language to allow the Cherokee to read and write their native language as well as speak it. Helped create the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, the first Native people newspaper in the USA, and crucial communication tool for the Native tribe.
- Syllabary
/ A collection of written syllables designed by Sequoyah.
85 Cherokee syllables that were written down for reference.
Allowed the Cherokee people to read and write. / 1809-1821
- Trail of Tears
/ The trail “where they cried”
The path and journey taken by the Cherokee forced removal from their lands in the Southeast and Georgia to Oklahoma. / 1838
- Chief McGillivray
/ Creek Chief who worked to protect his tribe by signing the Treaty of New York in 1790 with the US government. This treaty gave up Creek lands for government protection from white settlers. The treaty was ignored. / Treaty = 1790
- John Ross
/ Cherokee Chief who advocated for the Cherokee to stay on their land. Worked with the Federal government to assimilate the Cherokee as well as keep native lands. Resisted the move westward. / 1829-1838
- Andrew Jackson
/ President of the USA 1829-1837
Enemy of the Native people
Signed the
Indian Removal Act of 1830 to move natives off land / 1830
- Sam Worchester
/ White missionary serving among the Cherokee people. Refused to sign an oath of allegiance to the USA while living on Cherokee lands and was arrested for defiance. Went to Court against Georgia, which ended up in the Supreme Court case Worchester vs. Georgia. / 1831
- Richard Allen
/ During the religious fervor of the Great Awakening, Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E) Church, a new Christian denomination representing the needs of African-Americans. / 1865 – 1st GA A.M.E. church
- Chief William McIntosh
/ Creek chief who lived a wealthy life similar to American citizens. He wanted the Creek to assimilate to the American culture. Signed the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825 giving away all Creek land. He was killed for doing so. / 1825
