Westward Expansion

This bingo card has a free space and 24 words: White males and Revolutionary War veterans were given 200 acres of land plus an additional 50 acres per family member. Maximum of 1,000 acres., The controversial sale of Georgia's western land that was sold cheaply to four land companies by Georgia legislator. As result, GA's western lands became Alabama and Mississippi and the western border was set at the Chattahoochee River., Method used to distribute Creek and Cherokee land; white men, orphans, and widows were allowed to buy tickets used to determine the area of land they were given., First land grant public university in 1785 that provided citizens (white males) with access to education. The founders believed that educated citizens were important to a democratic society., Wrote the charter for the University of Georgia., Abraham Baldwin Wrote the charter for the University of Georgia. Georgia's Capitals Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta, Original name for Atlanta., Separated seeds from cotton, allowing cotton to be processed much faster and leading to an increase in slave labor to meet the high demand of cotton., Machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, Source of labor to plant and pick cotton (and other crops) in Georgia and across the South. There was an increase in this type of labor to meet the high demand of cotton., A new, faster and efficient mode of transportation for crops, goods and people and interstate trade., Indian tribe that lived in central and southern Georgia; also known as Muscogee Indians., Indian tribe that lived in the north Georgia mountains and forcibly removed by the U.S. government on the "Trail of Tears.", A formal agreement that gave the remaining Creek land to the US government. It was signed by William McIntosh, who was later executed by his own people for his actions., Leader of Creek Nation 1810-1820 who signed the Treaty of Indian Springs; executed by the police force he created after giving away all Creek lands in Georgia., Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the Worcester vs. Georgia case who ruled that the Cherokee territory was no t subject to state law., The discovery of gold in this Georgia city that led to the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians., Supreme court case that ruled that the Cherokee Nation was its own independent nation and state law in Georgia did not apply to the Cherokee., Indian chief of the Cherokee 1827-1866 . He petitioned the U.S. Congress for assistance with Cherokee rights but he and his people were ultimately forced to relocate in present-day Oklahoma., American General that became a US president; did not enforce the Worcester v. Georgia ruling which led to the forced removal of Indian tribes., Land designated for Native Americans in present-day Oklahoma., (1830) a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to be placed on Indian Reservations in present-day Oklahoma., The forced migration of Georgia's Cherokees and other native groups to Indian reservations west of the Mississippi River in present-day Oklahoma. and Due to this crop becoming more profitable to grow, the need for land and slaves dramatically increased.

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