Unit 4-Westward Expansion

4. The first state sponsored public university in the United States; Founded in 1785
6. An acronym of Georgia's five capital cities: Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta.
7. American Indian tribe that lived in central/southern Georgia; was removed from the state through treaties in the 1820's.
8. Cherokee leader who developed a written form of the Cherokee language.
9. Eli ____________ invented the cotton gin in 1793.
11. Native American tribe that lived in northwestern Georgia; was removed from the state through treaties in the 1820s
13. Principal Chief of the Cherokee Indians who tried to use legal means to fight against removal.
14. The forced removal of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma (1838)
15. The ____________ system was a land policy that provided the head of a family 200 acres of free land in the Georgia frontier
17. Site of America's first gold rush in 1828; Discovery of gold in the area was factor in the Cherokee removal.

1. John _________ was the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court who ruled in favor of the Cherokee in the Worcester vs Georgia case
2. Andrew _________ was the 7th president of the United States and was an advocate of Indian Removal.
3. gin Machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly separated the cotton seeds from the cotton lint
5. Land policy that gave the average Georgian a chance to buy land at pennies on the dollar. Names would be placed in a barrel and lot numbers in another barrel.
9. ___________ v. Georgia was a landmark Supreme Court case that declared the Cherokee were an independent nation
10. An event where four land companies bribed the members of the Georgia General Assembly to sell state land very inexpensively
12. The last name of a Creek chief who illegally signed his people's land away. He was murdered by his tribesmen for this betrayal
16. Many of Georgia's town & cities were created due to these and they were used to transport crops, like cotton.