Across
- 8. The Articles of Confederation had many of these including having different currencies, no executive or judicial branches, and all states had to agree on any changes
- 9. Georgia's capitals shifted west to be at the center of its population (Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta)
- 10. Cherokee chief who argued at the Supreme Court
- 12. The American governing document that fixed weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
- 14. President of the United States who ordered Native American removal from the Eastern United States
- 15. Invention patented to make cotton processing easier, resulted in increased need for land and slavery to produce cotton
- 19. People who sided with England during the Revolutionary War
- 20. List of Complaints against the King
- 21. French and Indian War led England to make the colonies pay this
- 22. Resulted in Georgia losing land (Alabama and Mississippi) because our officials accepted bribes to sell huge tracts of land instead of allotting it fairly to citizens
- 24. Creek/Muscogee leader who signed the Treaty of Indian Springs that ceded (gave away) all remaining Creek land to the US, he was murdered by his people for betraying them and selling the land
- 25. Revolutionary Battle in Georgia where Patriots won supplies and horse boosting morale
- 26. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who found in favor of Cherokee rights
- 27. Land Policy used to distribute Creek and Cherokee land to white men, veterans, and widows
Down
- 1. Supreme Court case where Cherokee argued their had the rights to their land, they won the case but were forcibly removed anyway
- 2. The first weak government of the United States
- 3. caused massive population growth in north Georgia pressuring Georgia to force the Cherokee out of Georgia
- 4. Law from 1763 forbidding colonists to live West of the Appalachian Mountains
- 5. American Patriots and France fought together for the first time to retake Savannah from the British but were defeated
- 6. Spread across Georgia to transport cotton to ports and then to mills in the north and overseas
- 7. The resolution of the DOI where the colonies declare independence
- 11. First direct tax on colonies on paper products
- 13. The forced removal of Native Americans through the winter of 1838 to reservations in the Western frontier of the United States
- 16. Introduction to the Declaration of Independence
- 17. American colonists who wanted to have independence from England
- 18. Land Policy where white men (heads of households) could receive up to 1000 acres of land for their family
- 23. the first public land grant university in the United States opening up higher education to more citizens