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39 Cards in this Set
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French and Indian war |
War between British and French both sides allied with the Natives. |
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Torie/Loyalist |
One who supports King George the 2nd in the revolutionary war |
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Patriot |
One who supports the the thirteen colonies in the revolutionary war |
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What were the 5 capitals and why did it keep moving |
Savannah, Atlanta, Louisville, milledgeville, and Augusta. They moved West as their land expanded westward. |
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Who signed DOC from GA |
Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton |
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Nancy hart |
Female Georgian Patriot who captured and killed a group of tories |
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Austin Dabney |
African American solider injured in kettle creek saved Elijah Clarks life |
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Elijah Clarke |
Led GA militia to victory over 800 British. |
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Battle of Kettle Creek |
Battle that took place in Georgia Patriots won and gained British supplies |
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Siege of Savannah |
American revolution battle in GA, Patriots loss and lost their capital |
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Stamp act |
Placed a tax on all paper products ; Newspaper, Stamps, etc |
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Intolerable acts |
Couldn't trade with West Indies, Quartering act, Stamp act, Sugar act, closed Boston harbor, Trials in Britain |
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Quartering act |
People in Massachusetts forced to house British |
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Sugar act |
Taxation on all sugar |
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Land lottery |
Lottery for land giving acres of land to White men, orphans, Widows, etc. |
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Yazoo Land Front |
4 companies bought of acres of land for $.015 an acre all legislators were voted off board costed US GOVT 4 million dollars |
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Articles of confederation |
Had a weak Central GOVT was the first US constitution |
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White sticks |
Wanted peace in war |
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Red sticks |
Rebellious and Wanted violence in war |
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Two GA representatives helped rewrite constitution in constitutional convention of 1787 |
William Few Abraham Baldwin |
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Third GA capital |
Louisville |
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First College In GA |
UGA |
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Two larger denominations of GA spread westward after the American Revolution |
Baptist Methodist |
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Head right System |
Method used to give 1000's of acres of land to white men |
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Alexander mcgrilvary |
Creek leader in oconee war worked to centralize within creeks and protect them |
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Sequyah |
Indian who wrote a language for the creeks |
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Cotton gin |
Machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 separated seeds and fiber |
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Railroads |
More efficient way to transport goods and travel people stopped need for horses stagecoaches and boats |
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William Mcintosh |
Leader of the creek Indians from 1810-1820 signed the treaty of Indian Springs murdered by police force he created |
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John ross |
Became principal chief of the Cherokee in 1827 created constitution for Cherokee using the syllabary |
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Dahlonega gold rush |
Discovery of gold in North Georgia major reason of the Indian removal act |
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John marshall |
Chief Justice of US Supreme Court ruled in Worechester V. GA that Cherokee was not subject to state law |
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Andrew Jackson |
The 7th president of USA assisted in Indian removal act |
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Worechester V GA |
A court in which mr Worechester attempted to protect the GA Natives |
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Declaration of Independence |
Stated thier independence against Britain |
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Proclamation of 1762 |
Borders extended to saint Mary's colonists couldn't settles West of Appalachian trail |
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GA constitution of 1777 |
Adopted at constitutional convention on savannah government power limited |
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GA constitution of 1777 T-chart |
Back (Definition) |
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Constitution |
GA was the first state to radify constitution |