Chapter 6

2. The governor of Georgia who was implicated in the Yazoo land fraud
3. A system where the consumers and producers make economic decisions
5. The purchase of western land by Thomas Jefferson- nearly doubled the size of the US
9. Georgia representative to the Constitutional Convention who founded UGA and practiced law in Augusta
11. A sharp economic downturn
13. The first ten amendments to the Constitution that gave the people basic rights
14. The land distribution system under which each white male head of family was entitled to a plot of land
16. The first permanent capital of Georgia- where the documents regarding the Yazoo land fraud were burned
19. When land companies bought Georgia land very cheaply (1 1/2c per acre) while a deal about the land was still in the courts
20. The end of the Western and Atlantic Railroad- became Atlanta

1. Roads with pikes(gates) where you had to pay to stay on the road
2. The name of Georgia's original legislature- selected the governor and judges
4. This is Georgia's western boundary- set after all land west of it was ceded to federal government because of Yazoo land fraud
6. The document drafted at the Constitutional Convention to set up our government
7. The current capital of Georgia- was Terminus
8. Georgia representative to the Constitutional Convention who was an outspoken opponent of the Yazoo Land Fraud
10. The third president of the United States- Primary drafter of the Declaration of Independence and made the Louisiana Purchase
12. crops Crops grown to make money at the market
15. Opened the first textile mill in New England that hired women- many mills soon followed
17. The land distribution system under which each person was entered into a lottery to win land
18. The inventor of the cotton gin