Unit 4 Test Study Guide

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  1. 3. Who wrote the charter for UGA and became its first president?
  2. 6. the Yazoo Land Fraud angered Georgians because the land was sold too ___
  3. 8. Cherokee thought that if they would ___ the white settlers might leave them alone
  4. 12. the Georgia legislature was ___ to sell the Yazoo Land to land companies
  5. 13. rail transportation was more ___ than previous transportation modes
  6. 15. the Treaty of ___ ___ gave up all remaining Creek land in Georgia
  7. 22. missionary who lived on Cherokee land and refused to leave or sign an oath, violating GA law
  8. 23. Georgia's 4th capital
  9. 25. the dominant cash crop for the entire South
  10. 26. William ___ was a Creek chief who was murdered for signing away remaining Creek land for a personal profit
  11. 29. the ruling in Worcester vs. GA said that the Cherokee were an ___ nation
  12. 31. Cherokee chief who led them on the Trail of Tears; his wife dies on the march
  13. 32. a university whose land is given by the government, making it public
  14. 33. Cherokee who invented their first written language
  15. 34. the Cherokee system of writing that used symbols for syllables
  16. 35. the capital of Georgia moved westward because the ___ was spreading westward
  17. 36. the invention of the cotton gin led to more cotton production which needed more ___
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  1. 1. Governor of Georgia who chartered the first university and set aside land
  2. 2. 800 mile journey taken by Cherokee who were forced from Georgia
  3. 4. the ___ system gave away land East of the Oconee River
  4. 5. invented the cotton gin
  5. 7. the Yazoo Land Fraud led to the ___ of slavery into the newly created states of Alabama and Mississippi
  6. 9. city that was at the end of the Western & Atlantic rail line; became Atlanta
  7. 10. Native Americans who lived in the mountains of North Georgia
  8. 11. the importance of cotton to the economy of the South gave it a nickname, ___ ___
  9. 14. Georgia's 3rd capital
  10. 16. this method of transportation helped support travel and commerce between states
  11. 17. the headright system gave new settlers to Georgia __ ____ acres if they were head of household
  12. 18. thousands of white settlers flocked to the Georgia mountains in 1829 because of this
  13. 19. Supreme Court Chief Justice who ruled in the Worcester vs. GA case
  14. 20. In the Red Stick War, what group of Creeks wanted peace with Georgia settlers?
  15. 21. the nation's first public university was the University of ___
  16. 24. ___ was discovered on Cherokee land in Lumpkin County, Georgia
  17. 27. like the Creek Treaty of Indian Springs, the Treaty of New ___ gave up all remaining Cherokee land in the state
  18. 28. UGA was first called ___ College in honor of a founding father
  19. 30. this method allowed Georgians to buy Indian land