unit 4 vocab

2. credited with inventing a device that made it faster and easier to remove seeds from the cotton boll.
4. led the US Army in their battle against the Red Stick Creek in Alabama. Elected President of the US in 1828, signed the Indian Removal Act.
5. Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, he ruled that the Gwinnett County judge’s decision in the Worchester v. Georgia case was unconstitutional and ordered that Worchester and Butler be set free.
9. the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation
10. when a public official uses his or her position for personal gain.
13. a system of distributing land by which each “head” of a household could receive up to 1000 acres. Began during GA’s Royal Period and ended after the Yazoo Land Fraud.
16. a plan to award something, such as land, on the basis of chance.
17. a device invented to remove seeds from the cotton boll.

1. Creek chief who believed that the Creek should sell their land to the government, take the money and land promised to them in the West. Signed the Treaty of Indian Springs. Murdered and scalped by his own people in 1825 as punishment for signing the unpopular treaty.
3. a set of laws made by a government
6. to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot.
7. name given to the forced removal of the Cherokee to Indian Territory in Oklahoma
8. the sale of Western land to 4 land companies after the members of the General Assembly had been bribed.
11. an act of deceiving or misrepresenting
12. to surrender or give up
14. He was a missionary and the postmaster at New Echota. Refused to sign the oath of allegiance to the governor and was jailed along with a fellow missionary. Their case went all the way to the US Supreme Court
15. Principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, he took a petition to Congress in 1833, protesting Indian Removal