Georgia Studies Unit 6: Western Expansion

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Across
  1. 4. The removal of the Cherokee from Georgia
  2. 5. Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled against Georgia in the Worcester vs. Georgia case
  3. 9. average people could purchase a ticket for a chance to receive a tract of land
  4. 11. Georgia's capital during the colonial period
  5. 13. Cherokee Chief who tried to use legal means to fight against Cherokee Removal
  6. 14. our current capital
  7. 15. this means of transportation helped cotton move more efficiently
  8. 16. The first public university established by a state government.
Down
  1. 1. land speculators bribed legislators to pass a bill that sold them huge tracts of land for an extremely low price
  2. 2. the land distribution policy where white males 21 years or older received 200 acres of land
  3. 3. gold was found here
  4. 6. U.S. President who advocated for Indian Removal
  5. 7. wrote the charter for UGA
  6. 8. inventor of the cotton gin
  7. 10. Creek Chief that illegally signed away the lands of his people
  8. 12. the capital moved to this town when Savannah was under seige