SS8H4 Unit Test

People bought a ticket for a chance to win land if their name was drawn from a barrel.

• Apple Barrel land system

• Land Lottery

• headright system

• Yazoo land act

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

How did the Cotton Gin change the South?

• Cotton production became easier.

• The amount of sheep were increased in Georgia.

• It made it easier to put the seeds back into cotton.

• The slave population was decreased.

Which acronym places Georgia's state capitals in order from first to last

• S.E.L.M.A

• L.E.S.M.A

• S.A.L.M.A

• S.L.A.M.A.

All of these cities have been capitals of the state of Georgia but one. Which has NOT been a capital of Georgia?

• Augusta

• Louisville

• Macon

• Milledegville

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.

The author of the charter of the first public university in the United States was __________

• Abraham Baldwin
• Lyman Hall
• William Few

 In 1830, it became U.S. policy to seek the removal of all southeastern Indians across the Mississippi as a result of the __________________.

• Treaty of Indian Springs
• Ft. Wilkinson Treaty
• Indian Removal Act

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