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Removal and Expansion
Short Answer
1. What two Georgia cities served as the state’s capital during the late 1700s?
2. What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?
3. What scandal took place when Georgia’s governor and some legislators were bribed to sell public land to
private developers at below-market prices?
4. Why did Georgia give up land claims in what is now Mississippi and Alabama?
5. After the Revolutionary War, Georgia’s major crops were
6. Before railroads were available, Georgia’s farmers moved their products to markets by
7. In the mid-1800s, Georgia’s main railroad company was the
8. What were the original names of Atlanta?
9. The most important mechanical invention to Georgia’s economy in the early 1800s was the
10. What was the most damaging result of the Yazoo land fraud in Georgia?
11. What is a “land grant university,” like the University of Georgia?
12. What was George Gist’s ( Sequoyah) major contribution to the Cherokee culture?
13. The first Native American newspaper was the
14. The permanent Cherokee capital was located in
15. Who participated in the Treaty of Indian Springs, which ceded the last Creek lands in Georgia?
16. What discovery led to the final Indian removal from Georgia?
17. What least affected industrialization during the period of western expansion?
18. What led to America’s change to a “market economy”?
19. What legislation allowed Georgia to push the Creek and the Cherokee out of the state and to seize their lands?
20. Which inventions contributed directly to the industrialization of the United States during the period of
western expansion?
21. What form of transportation helped farmers in the new market economy?
22. According to the map, how many present-day states were included, in part or in total, in the Louisiana
Purchase?
23. Why did the United States purchase Louisiana?
24. According to the map, which city benefitted the most from the early railroads in Georgia?
25. According to the map, which city benefitted the least from early railroads in Georgia?
26. Why was Atlanta at one time called Terminus?
27. What nickname was given to the forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia?
28. Why did the capital of Georgia move?
29. Most of Georgia’s early roads followed
30. What is “manifest destiny”?
31. Who were the White Sticks and the Red Sticks?