Georgia Land Expansion Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The forced journey of the Cherokee to Oklahoma, where many died from disease and starvation.
  2. 3. The cotton gin made cotton production more profitable, which increased the demand for land.
  3. 5. The 1830 Indian Removal Act formalized the process of forcing Native Americans from their lands.
  4. 7. This system gave land to white males and veterans and was in place before the land lotteries.
  5. 8. The Yazoo land fraud involved selling massive tracts of land at low prices to land companies.
  6. 9. The discovery of gold here intensified the pressure to remove the Cherokee.
Down
  1. 1. This city was Georgia's capital when the fraudulent Yazoo Act was publicly burned.
  2. 4. The system that distributed land west of the Oconee River starting in 1805.
  3. 6. The Cherokee and Creek Nations were forcibly removed from their lands.