Chapter 6 terms
1.Cash Crop
7.Depression(economic)
2.headright system
8.Fraud
3.Land Lottery
9.Market Economy
4.Public Domain
10.Syllabary
5.Ceded
11.Litigation
6.Louisiana Purchase
12.Trail of Tears
The Standard
SS8H5 The student will explain significant factors
that affected the development of Georgia as part
of the growth of the United States between 1789
and 1840.
b. Evaluate the impact of land policies pursued
by Georgia; include the headright system, land
lotteries, and the Yazoo land fraud.
What is it?
Dairy product
(made from
milk)
Example:
Cheddar
Example:
Swiss
Cheese
Example:
Mozzarella
What is it like?
Property: usually
soft
What is it like?
Property: is
usually yellow or
white
What is it like?
Property: is kept cold
My explanation of cheese: Cheese is a dairy product that is made
from milk. Some examples are cheddar, Swiss, and Mozzarella.
Cheese is usually soft, and most cheeses are yellow or white in
color. You usually have to keep cheese cold so it doesn’t spoil.
What is Fraud
intended to result in
financial or personal gain
A lie
Fraud
Racket
Scam
it is a crime
Con
Explanation: A fraud is a lie that is intended to result in
personal gain. It is a crime and can also be called a con,
Racket or scam.
Yazoo land fraud
Georgia Sells land that did not belong to the state
Sells the land cheap
Governor and other members of the government were
bribed to sell the land
Georgians were angry, people were voted out of office
and documents were destroyed
Georgia repealed the sell, but some land had been
resold and people would not settle.
Federal government had to bail GA out
What was the final outcome of the Yazoo Land Fraud?
look on page 178
Out come of the Yazoo land fraud
What was the final outcome of the Yazoo Land Fraud?
It cost the federal Government over $4 million.
Made Georgia look bad
Georgia lost money
Georgia lost control of the Yazoo territory.
Ceded the area west of the Chattahoochee River
to the federal government in 1802
Georgia was given $1.25 million
Federal Government promised to remove
all Native Americans from GA
Task:
Cause:
Create a cause/event/outcome
chart for the Yazoo land fraud
Event:
Yazoo land
fraud
facts:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Outcome:
The Standard
SS8H5 The student will explain significant factors
that affected the development of Georgia as part
of the growth of the United States between 1789
and 1840.
b. Evaluate the impact of land policies pursued
by Georgia; include the headright system, land
lotteries, and the Yazoo land fraud.
Land Distribution
Headright system
Used in GA east of the Oconee River
Gave each male at least 1000 acres
Men picked the land they wanted
Lots were not uniform in shape
Land Distribution
Land Lottery
Used in GA west of the Oconee River
Was a lottery or a gamble
not guarantee to receive land
Had to pay to be involved
State surveyed off the land lots before the lottery
Lots were uniform in shape
Farming lots were 160 acres
“Gold” lots were 60 to 80 acres
You could not chose the lot you wanted, it
was the luck of the draw
Task:
Create Venn diagram for the headright
system and the land lottery
Headright
Land
lottery
The Standard
SS8H5 The student will explain significant factors
that affected the development of Georgia as part
of the growth of the United States between 1789
and 1840.
a. Explain the establishment of the University of
Georgia, Louisville, and the spread of Baptist
and Methodist churches.
University of Georgia
Was the nation’s first state university
Was the nation’s first land grant university
Federal government donated the land for the
school
20,000 acres of land were set aside in 1784 for the
school
The school was chartered in 1785
Began meeting for classes in 1801
Was to over see all public schools in GA
Was only for white males, women would be allowed to
attend in 1918, blacks would be allowed to attend in
1961
The Standard
SS8H5 The student will explain significant factors
that affected the development of Georgia as part
of the growth of the United States between 1789
and 1840.
a. Explain the establishment of the University of
Georgia, Louisville, and the spread of Baptist
and Methodist churches.
Louisville
• State legislature wanted a state capital in a more western
location
• Would be named Louisville in honor of King Louis XVI
of France for helping during the revolution
• Set up a commission to find the new location in 1786
• Work on the new capital was delayed because of GA’s
war debt and problems with the Creek Indians
• Located on the Ogeechee River
• Modeled after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Became the GA’s Third capital in 1796
• Problems with malaria and the difficulty of getting to the
town led the capital being moved to Milledgeville in 1807
The Standard
SS8H5 The student will explain significant factors
that affected the development of Georgia as part
of the growth of the United States between 1789
and 1840.
a. Explain the establishment of the University of
Georgia, Louisville, and the spread of Baptist
and Methodist churches.
The spread of Baptist and
Methodist Churches
•Churches were formed on the frontier
•Many times served by a “circuit rider”
•May have only meet once a month
•African American Churches also
began to form in cities
SS8H5 The student will explain significant
factors that affected the development of Georgia
as part of the growth of the United States
between 1789 and 1840.
d. Analyze the events that led to the removal of
Creeks and Cherokees; include the roles of
Alexander McGillivray, William McIntosh,
Sequoyah, John Ross, Dahlonega Gold Rush,
Worcester v. Georgia, Andrew Jackson, John
Marshall, and the Trail of Tears.
Who/what
Alexander McGillivary
William McIntosh
Sequoyah
John Ross
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Worcester v. Georgia
Andrew Jackson
John Marshall
Trail of Tears
Tribe involved
What did they do or
what was it
When
SS8H5 The student will explain significant
factors that affected the development of Georgia
as part of the growth of the United States
between 1789 and 1840.
d. Analyze the events that led to the removal of
Creeks and Cherokees; include the roles of
Alexander McGillivray, William McIntosh,
Sequoyah, John Ross, Dahlonega Gold Rush,
Worcester v. Georgia, Andrew Jackson, John
Marshall, and the Trail of Tears.
ANDREW JACKSON
• Born in a log cabin
• Joined the military at age 13 during the
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Revolutionary War
Made his fortune as a lawyer and planter in
Tennessee
Was known as an Indian fighter and was a hero of
the War of 1812
Elected as America’s 7th president in 1828
Was know as the common man’s president
Supported States’ Rights
As president he support Indian Removal
Alexander McGillivray
• Creek Indian leader in the 1780s and 1790s
• Native American mother and European father
• Invited by George Washington to Negotiate a treaty
between the USA and the Creeks
• 1790 Treaty of New York
• Gave the USA sovereignty over Creek lands
within the limits of United States territory as a
result, Indian affairs became the job of the federal
government, not the state.
• Established a line near the Altamaha River
separating Georgian and Creek lands.
William McIntosh
Native American mother and European father
Was a cousin to Georgia’s Governor
Creek leader during the early 1800’s
Signed the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825
Ceded most of the remaining virtually
all Creek land in Georgia in exchange
for a payment of $200,000.
McIntosh was given extra money for
land he owned.
Was executed by other creeks for signing the treaty
http://bit.ly/cherokeenames
Donald Casey
Sequoyah
aka:
George Gist
Sequoyah/George Gist
• Worked with the US Army during the War of 1812 and
the Creek Indian War
• Saw how having writing (talking leaves) made it
easier to communicate
• It was a major advantage
• Began working on a writing system for the Cherokee
Language
• took 12 years
• Was a syllabary
• Assigned a symbol to each syllable in the
language
• If you spoke Cherokee it was easy to learn how to
read and write
Sequoyah’s Syllabary
• The Cherokee accepted it as their official written
language in 1821
• The Cherokee began publishing America’s first the first
Native American newspaper in the United States,The
Cherokee Phoenix
• Printed from 1828 to 1834 at New Echota, Georgia, the
capital of the Cherokee Nation
• New Echota is in Gordon County
The Cherokee
Were considered one of the “five civilized” tribes
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and
Seminole
Considered “civilized” because they had adopted
many of the European ways
Had a constitutional government modeled after
that of the USA
Farmed and operated businesses
Some Cherokee owned large plantations and
slaves
Many had become Christians and could speak &
read english
John Ross
John Ross
• Chief of the Cherokee Nation
• Elected to 10 terms, served over 36 years as Chief
• Worked to keep the Cherokee from being removed
• Made many trips to Washington to meet with the
president and members of congress
• Took the Cherokee cause to the courts
• Once removal was inevitable he worked to get a
better price for the land
• Lived in Rossville, GA
• Ross’s Landing
• When Georgia outlawed the Cherokee Government it
began meeting at Red Clay in Tennessee
Georgia Gold Rush
• Gold was discovered in Georgia mountains in 1828
• Created the nation’s first gold rush
• Gold was commercially mined in Georgia until World
War Two when It became too expensive to mine
• Gold was in the Cherokee Nation
• Georgia began working to remove the Cherokee
• Voided all Cherokee laws
• Out lawed Cherokee Government
• Required whites in the Cherokee Nation to have a
permit
• Divided up the Cherokee area into land lots and
began a lottery
SS8H5 The student will explain significant
factors that affected the development of Georgia
as part of the growth of the United States
between 1789 and 1840.
d. Analyze the events that led to the removal of
Creeks and Cherokees; include the roles of
Alexander McGillivray, William McIntosh,
Sequoyah, John Ross, Dahlonega Gold Rush,
Worcester v. Georgia, Andrew Jackson, John
Marshall, and the Trail of Tears.
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia
• Samuel Worcester was the missionary at New Echota
• Refused to get a permit and take an oath of allegiance to
GA
• both were required by GA for whites who were living
in the Cherokee Nation
• Was arrested by the state of GA
• Sued saying that GA had no power to regulate anything
inside the Cherokee Nation
• Case goes to the US Supreme Court
• Court rules in favor of Worcester and the Cherokee
• Orders GA to leave the Cherokee alone
• Courts decision was written by Chief Justice John
Marshall
• President Jackson refused to enforce the court’s ruling
Trail of Tears
• Forced removal of the Cherokee from
Southeast
• 1838
• Could go by water route or land route
• both routes had problems
• Early winter
• Not enough food
• Improper clothing
• Thousands died
The Trail of Tears