Unit 4A Cause and Effect Vocab

Front

By the end of the Yazoo Land Fraud crisis, Georgia legislators knew they needed to come up with a new way to distribute land. What was the new policy? Hint: We have a version of it today but the prize is cash, not land!

Back

The land was distributed in a lottery.

Answer explanation

The new policy for land distribution in Georgia after the Yazoo Land Fraud crisis was a lottery system. This method aimed to ensure fairness and equal opportunity, similar to modern cash lotteries.

Front

What was the primary reason behind the Yazoo Land Fraud scandal in Georgia? Hint: It involved unethical practices by government officials.

Back

Government officials were bribed to sell land at below-market prices.

Front

The University of Georgia is the first STATE supported college in the U.S. And we have _______ to thank for the charter that made it happen.

Back

Abraham Baldwin

Front

Put these events in chronological order: Civil War, Trail of Tears, Dahlonega Gold Rush, Reconstruction Era. Which is the EARLIEST EVENT?

Back

Dahlonega Gold Rush

Answer explanation

• The gold rush in Georgia started BEFORE the Trail of Tears. Once it was clear that there was gold there, the CONSEQUENCE of the gold rush was that the Cherokees were slowly but surely removed from Georgia.

  Keep these events in order so that you can see how one thing leads to another!

Front

Put these events in chronological order: Civil War, Trail of Tears, Reconstruction Era, Dahlonega Gold Rush. Which is the LAST EVENT on this timeline?

Back

Reconstruction Era

Front

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people in the United States.

Back

False

Answer explanation

The Emancipation Proclamation specifically says, "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"

Who was in rebellion? Not any states in the North!

The Confederate States that ARE in rebellion have now been served notice. As Union troops arrive in states like Georgia which are in the Confederacy and in rebellion, the news of Emancipation will become widespread.

Mrs. W