Georgias History

2. the war between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815.
4. authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
7. Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
8. treaty was signed January 8, 1821 with creeks
10. explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
11. 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible
12. President of the United States.
14. fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1. an agreement signed between the United States government and a group of Cherokee in 1835.
3. led the lower Creek against the British in the War of 1812
5. The nation's first major gold rush was here in 1828
6. The Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits.
9. set of written characters representing syllables and serving the purpose of an alphabet.
13. in reference to the U.S. government's brutally incompetent Cherokee removal of 1838-9