Unit 5 Vocabulary

5. Site of America’s first gold rush in 1828.
8. Creek chief who illegally signed the Second Treaty of Indian Springs.
10. of Indian Springs, treaty signed by McIntosh that gave the remainder of Creek land to GA.
13. Indians, Indian tribe that lived in south GA
14. Chief of the Cherokee Indians who tried to use legal means to fight against removal.
17. U.S. Supreme Court Justice who ruled in favor of the Cherokee in Worcester vs. Georgia.
18. of New Echota, treaty that ceded all Cherokee land in the SE to the United States

1. one of the major technological advances in the 19th century.
2. created an early cotton gin.
3. System, land allocation that gave the head of a family up to 200 acres of free land.
4. Lottery, land allocation that gave the average Georgian a chance to buy land cheaply.
6. Act, act signed by Gov. Mathews that gave 35 million acres of land away for $500,000
7. Removal Act, act signed into law by Andrew Jackson that was detrimental the Indians
9. Indians, most advanced Indian tribe
11. Land Fraud, an event where land companies bribed members of the GA Gen. Assembly
12. seventh president of the United States who was an advocate of Indian Removal.
15. of Tears, final removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia in 1838.
16. Sticks, Creek Indians who wanted to solve land disputes peacefully.