*Unit 4 Statehood Study Guide

  1. Taxation without representation, French and Indian War, Proclamation of 1763, duties, smuggling and boycotts, Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Declaration of Independence
  1. French and Indian War
  1. Great Britain v. FranceGreat Britain won
  1. No settling West of the Appalachian Mts, Redrew GA’s borders, Slowed settlement
  1. The Tea Act (forced colonists to buy from East India Tea Co.)
  1. Closed Boston harbor, enforced the Quartering Act, End all self-government
  1. Thomas Jefferson/56
  1. King George III
  1. Button Gwinett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
  1. Lyman Hall
  1. Lawyer in Savannah and politician
  1. Loyalist (Tories): supported Great Britain/Patriots (Whigs): opposed British rule
  1. Patriots captured much needed supplies, and gained support for the war
  1. Elijah Clarke
  1. Nancy Hart
  1. Great Britain
  1. Popular Sovereignty & Separation of Powers
  1. Shaky economy, states argued over borders and waterways, state imposed taxes, state currency
  1. Baldwin, Few, Houstoun, and Pierce
  1. Opposed ban on slavery, Wanted a strong central government, and wanted protection from the Creeks
  1. 3/5 Compromise, Commerce Compromise, Slave Trade Compromise
  1. 11
  1. Legislative: make laws, Executive: enforce laws, Judicial: interpret laws
  1. Rights keep institutions from harming and taking freedom from the people
  1. Check the power of another branch
  1. US citizen, legal GA resident in county you wish to vote in, 17 ½ to register & 18 to vote, not serving a sentenced crime, not determined to be mentally incompetent
  1. University of Georgia
  1. Population shifted
  1. Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
  1. Baptist and Methodist Churches
  1. Head of each family received 100 acres, 50 for each additional family member
  1. Land Lottery System

Rights of GA Citizens: 1) Life, Liberty, and Property 2) Freedom of Speech/Press 3) Right to keep/bear arms 4) Right to trial 5) No banishment/whipping for a crime 6) No imprisonment for debt 7) Right to fish/hunt

Yazoo Land Fraud: 1) Four land companies bribed the General Assembly 2) Bought 35 million acres in West GA 3) Paid 2 cents an acre 4) Angered many Georgians 5) General Assembly repealed the Yazoo Land Act 6) Burned the law on the capitol grounds “fire from heaven.”

  1. Farming (Agriculture)
  1. Economy grew (became better)
  1. Creeks & Cherokees
  1. Gold
  1. Sold millions of acres of creek land for $200,000
  1. The gold rush forced Indians out of their land
  1. Ruled that US/state law did not apply to the Cherokee Nation
  1. Andrew Jackson
  1. Oklahoma (Trail of Tears)