Westward Expansion

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

Why was the land lottery more successful than the headright system?

• More land was distributed to settlers
• It sold all open lands to the government
• it created peace with American Indians
• More settlers moved to the eastern coast.

Why did Georgia give up land claims in what is now Mississippi and Alabama?

• The federal government wanted to set that land aside for the Indian population
•  The state did not have the millions of dollars required to purchase the land from Spain.
• The state could not claim the land because the General Assembly illegally sold it to private companies.
• They did not need the land because people desired to stay closer to the eastern coast for trade.

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.

Because of McIntosh’s leadership, the Creek Indians

• were displaced from their homes and their lands.
• moved west to escape the rule of the government.
• enjoyed great wealth after moving to gold-rich areas.
• were able to buy back their lands from the government.

What was discovered in 1829 in Cherokee territory that led to the removal of the Cherokee and the creation of Dahlonega? 

• diamonds
• the syllabary
• rivers
• gold