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What was the reason for chartering the University of Georgia?

• Make education available to all people, not just the wealthy
• educate GA's slave population
• educate GA's militia
• establish a women's only school

Georgia continued to move its capital westward to Louisville, then Milledgeville, and finally Atlanta to

• avoid continued pirate raids on the east coast
• meet federal government requirements
• follow the growing population
• open eastern lands to the American Indians

What was the purpose of the Georgia’s land policies?

• It established a method of counting the population
• To give away newly gained lands and promote westward expansion
• It provided an organized system of collecting taxes
• It administered voting and election districts

The Yazoo land fraud occurred because land companies 

• bribed legislators so they could buy land cheaply
• took land from the American Indians by force.
• made illegal treaties with the Americans Indians.
• llegally sold the land to Spain to set up missions.

How were railroads beneficial to Georgia’s businessmen and farmers? 

• increased tourism through sightseeing 
• offered faster and easier transportation of goods
• offered a non-polluting transportation option
• made horses unnecessary for travel

Which technological development led to an increased demand for slaves in the United States during the early- to mid-1800s? 

• steel plow
• cotton gin
• railroads
• the spinning jenny

William McIntosh, a Creek chief, was murdered by his own people because he 

• fell to defeat in a fight with the Georgia militia.
• was the cousin of Georgia’s Governor George Troup.
• signed a peace treaty with the Cherokee Indians without permission.
• signed a treaty giving up the last Creek lands in Georgia to the federal government.

What was John Marshall’s final ruling in the Worcester V. Georgia case? 

• Cherokees were to be sold into slavery and their land would be divided out among Georgia political leaders.
• Cherokees were Georgia citizens and should follow state laws for taxes and voting.
• Cherokees were a sovereign nation and should have federal protection from state laws.
• Cherokees were a sovereign nation but should to be relocated to Oklahoma.

Andrew Jackson’s role in the removal of the Cherokee from Georgia was that he 

• ruled in favor of the Cherokee as a sovereign nation and prevented their removal.
• refused to enforce the Supreme Court’s ruling and instead enforced the Indian Removal Act.
• accompanied the Cherokee people on the trail of tears and helped organize farms in the Oklahoma territory.
• organized the newly acquired Yazoo lands for their settlement, opening their land to gold miners.

John Ross helped the Cherokee people in all of the following ways EXCEPT 

• As chief justice, he ruled the Cherokee a sovereign people.
• As chief, he advocated for the Cherokee in Congress.
• He accompanied his people on the Trail of Tears.
• In the Oklahoma territory, he helped organize schools.