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WorksheetsUnit 4 (Westward Expansion) AND Indian Removal
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 44mins
The purpose of the cotton gin was
To separate the seeds from the cotton boll
To make it easier to grow cotton
To make it easier to weave cloth
To plant cotton more efficiently
the status of being a state in the U.S.
statehood
segregation
confederation
union
Which is the BEST evidence to support the conclusion that the Georgia General Assembly supported the belief that "an educated citizenry is essential to a free government" in the years following the American Revolution?
The General Assembly set aside 40,000 acres of public land for the University of Georgia in Athens in 1785.
The state opened a penitentiary in 1817, and in 1842 an asylum for the insane was established at Milledgeville.
Wesleyan Female College, one of the first women's colleges in the country, was established in Macon in 1839
Most antebellum era Georgians believed that education was best left to individuals, rather than the government, to provide.
Which of these played the BIGGEST role in the creation of Georgia towns and cities in the 1820s-1850s?
the cotton gin
the planning of suburbs
the building of new ports
the construction of railroad lines
Which of the following caused Georgia to give up its land claims in present-day Mississippi and Alabama?
The state could not raise enough funds to purchase the territory from the Spanish.
The General Assembly decided that the expense of defending the territory from Indian attacks was too great.
The federal government wanted to set the land aside as reservations for the Indians that were being relocated from the east.
The state ceded the land to the federal government in exchange for just over one million dollars to settle the Yazoo land fraud.
Which have served as Georgia's capital? Check ALL that apply.
Louisville
Macon
Milledgeville
Augusta
Atlanta
Which system distributed land by matching 202 or 490 acre plots with numbered tickets held by potential settlers?
the Land Lottery
the County Unit system
the Cherokee cession
the Headright system
Which characteristic describes both the Headright System and the Land Lottery System?
They were both the major cause of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the War of 1812.
They both required males between the ages of 16 and 60 to work on local roads at least 12 days a year.
They both contained provisions to preserve Creek and Cherokee ownership of the land.
They were methods used by the state government to distribute public land to settlers.
Which statement best explains the impact of the Yazoo Land Fraud on the state of Georgia?
The General Assembly of Georgia decided that the cost to defend the lands was too great resulting in the selling of the land.
The state of Georgia sold the land to the French before the Louisiana Purchase was made by the federal government.
Georgia's western border became the Chattahoochee River due to the selling of its western lands to the United States Government.
The state could not raise enough funds to purchase the Spanish territory in Florida.
What resource did white Americans want to grow on this land?
Tobacco
Soybeans
Cotton
Corn
The Treaty of Echota traded all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi for how much money?
5 million
5 thousand
5 hundred
5 dollars
Cherokee developed a written language then a Constitution, laws, court system, they farmed, dressed like whites and many converted to Christianity are all examples of
arbitration
resistance
accumulation
assimilation
The policy of the US government toward the Indians in the period immediately prior to the Civil War was to
drive them out of the country and into Canada.
move the Indian population on to reservations.
grant citizenship and voting rights to Indians.
require the education of Indian children in public schools.
The Treaty of Indian Springs (1825) and the Treaty of New Echota (1835) were similar in that each
was a direct cause of the Dahlonega Gold Rush.
was an attempt to ease conflict between slave-holders and non-slave-holders.
resulted in the loss of American Indian land holdings in the Southeastern U.S.
demonstrated the power of the Supreme Court in matters dealing with Indian removal.
Which reason explains why Georgia’s economy changed from subsistence farming to commercial farming after the Revolutionary War.
GA residents were yeoman farmers and could not afford new technologies
Indians were occupying the lands needed to farm so GA farms remained small
the switch to large plantations lead to producing cash crops for profit
the railroad and cotton gin were not used because they were invented after the Civil War
