vocab

2. - named in English George Gist or George Guess, was a Cherokee silversmith.
6. - a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma
8. - name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land companies following the wholesale bribery of the legislators; the territory comprised most of present Alabama and Mississippi.
9. - 7th president of the US
11. - United States jurist
13. - also known as Taskanugi Hatke was one of the most prominent chiefs of the Creek Nation between the turn of the nineteenth century and the time of Creek removal to Indian Territory
16. -were an early nineteenth century system of land distribution in Georgia

1. - member of any of the creek peoples
3. - United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin
4. - city in north georgia
5. - Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
7. - was a case in which the United States Supreme Court chose 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.
10. - was originally created in 1618 in Jamestown, Virginia. It was used as a way to attract new settlers to the region and address the labor shortage
12. - The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks, to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s.
14. - writing system whose characters represent syllables
15. - a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers