The discovery of gold in _____________ by a man named Benjamin Parks led to a massive gold rush in the area – the first in the United States. Unfortunately, this gold rush also drove more Georgians to desire Native American land
________________ was the Creek chief who sold the last of his people’s land when he signed the Treaty of Indian Springs. He was executed by the Creek for doing this.
_______________was a Creek Chief who fought in the Oconee War to keep his people’s land. Eventually, some of that land was given away in the Treaty of New York
5 Capitals of Georgia
Abraham Baldwin worked to establish this school, that would become the first public university in the country.
was the chief of the Cherokee during the Trail of Tears. Ross fought to help protect the land of the Cherokee by appealing to the US Congress.
The ______________was where people purchased tickets in hopes of winning land. The land settlers won, however, was Native American land.
He signed the Indian Removal Act, which eventually placed Native American tribes out west in Indian Territory (modernday Oklahoma).
Lyman Hall helped support the rebuilding of these two denominations (groups) of churches.
Members of Georgia’s General Assembly were bribed by land companies to sell the land (even though they technically didn’t own it). Georgia would lose land west of the Chattahoochee River establishing Georgia modern day border
1)___________ was a Cherokee man who created the Cherokee 2)________ (similar to an alphabet). The syllabary was a written form of the Cherokee language. This allowed the Cherokee to read and write in their native tongue.
University of Georgia
John Ross
Baptist and Methodist
William McIntosh .
Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
Alexander McGillivray
1) Sequoyah 2) syllabary
President Andrew Jackson
Dahlonega
Land Lottery
Yazzo Land Fraud
