Georgia Milestones Vocabulary- Georgia Studies Flashcards
Garden Cultivation, important in the Mississippian Indian culture.
Horticulture
Last Prehistoric Native American Tribe in Georgia, known for their mounds, large scale farming, and NOT being nomads.
Mississippian Native American Tribe
Exporting over Importing
Mercantilism
Churches set up by the Spanish to try to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
Missions
Gold, God, and Glory was the reason for a certain country to come over to the Americas.
Spain
Country that established the early 13 colonies of North America.
England
Country interested in serious fur trade with the Native Americans, in early America.
France
First known European explorer in Georgia, was directly responsible for the killing and starvation of many Native Americans.
Hernado De soto
Time Period where 21 men of Georgia were charted with leading and constructing the colony of Georgia.
Trustee Period
Time period where the trustees switched power of the colony over to the King of England.
Royal Period
Document created to guide early Georgia. It outlined reasons for settlement and created strict guidelines for the colonist to follow.
Charter of 1732
Philanthropy, Economics, and Defense
3 Foundations of the Georgia Colony
Crops produced in early Georgia colony, that were known through an acronym.
W.R.I.S.T
Credited to be the Founding Father of the Georgia colony.
James Oglethorpe
Chief of the Yamacraw Indian. Built a friendship with James Oglethorpe while developing the Georgia colony.
Tomochichi
Translator/Interpreter between James Oglethorpe and Tomochichi.
Mary Musgrove
Group of Georgia colonist that complained over the regulations in the colony.
Malcontents
Rules that the Trustee Period did not allow in their colony.
Slavery and Alchol
A conflict that led to war between France and England over land. Known best as the “Seven Years War”.
French and Indian War
A Proclamation that was issued to the colonist that forbid them from going west over the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
This act was placed on colonist by the king to directly tax multiple common items like Newspapers and Legal documents.
Stamp Act
George Walton, Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett
3 men of Georgia that signed the Declaration of Independence. Signing this document made them officially guilty of Treason.
Preamble, Grievances, Declaration
3 Parts of the Declaration of Independence
2 Major battles fought in Georgia during the American Revolution.
Battle of Kettle Creek and Siege of Savannah
First draft of the U.S Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Creator and first president of the University of Georgia.
Abraham Baldwin
S.A.L.M.A
First five state capitals in Georgia. Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta.
Land policy known for giving away land based on luck by buying a ticket that would enter your name into a drawing.
Lottery System
Land Policy fraud found that certain companies bribed the General Assembly to sell the land of Georgia.
Yazoo Land Fraud
Land policy that gave thousands of acres to soldiers that fought in the American Revolution.
Head right System
Invention created to help the economic process and population, by separating the seeds out of cotton.
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Invented the Cotton Gin
Overall impact of the the creation of the Cotton Gin.
More Enslaved People to help with production.
Creek Chief that illegally signed away land, was murdered for his actions.
William McIntosh
Cherokee Nation principal chief during 1790-1866. Known for not backing down during the gold rush to give away his peoples land.
John Ross
This event sped up the removal of the Cherokee nation from north Georgia.
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Supreme Court case 1832 that should have protected the Cherokee nation, but due to President Andrew Jackson not enforcing it, it ultimately led to their removal.
Worcester v. Georgia
Event that led the under-supplied Cherokee to lose over 4,000 people to disease and exposure, while being removed from their land to the west.
Trail of Tears
The beginning of the Civil War was due to two reason, one more than another.
Slavery and State’s Rights
During the Civil War era, a crisis ensued in the early 1830s over Tariffs, this being states rights issue.
Nullification Crisis
Within the Compromise of 1850, to try an prevent a Civil War, Northern Congressmen agreed to pass a law where runaway slaves were to be captured an brought back to their owners.
Fugitive Slave Act
The response of acceptance to compromises in the North and South, was known as what in Georgia?
Georgia Platform
1857 Supreme Court ruling, of a slave suing his master in belief that he should have been freed when he spent time in the free states.
Dred Scott Case
The breaking point to begin the Civil War in the United States was the election of which president?
Abraham Lincoln in 1860
The act of separating or breaking away from a nation or state and becoming independent.
Secession
During the Civil War their were many Union Blockades, but one particular blockade was made in intention to “squeeze” the south.
Anaconda Plan
Document written by Abraham Lincoln saying, “All enslaved people in the rebellious states are to be freed.”
Emancipation Proclamation
Second Bloodiest Battle during the Civil War that happened on the Tennessee/Georgia line.
Battle of Chickamauga
What two campaigns did General William T. Sherman lead through Georgia during the Civil War?
Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea
What prison in Georgia, located in Macon county, became known as the most notorious prisoner of war camp due to the terrible conditions within?
Andersonville Prison
After the Civil War, there are 3 Amendments known as Reconstruction Amendments. What 3 Amendments?
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
This U.S Amendment officially ended Slavery.
13th Amendment
This U.S Amendment made African Americans citizens of the United States and were required to have the same rights as all of the U.S citizens.
14th Amendment
This U.S Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
During the Reconstruction Era after the Civil war a organization was formed to help the African-American community to adjust to their newly gained freedom.
The Freedmen’s Bureau
Terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen from gaining political power in the South
The KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
Certain Legislators were removed from office during the Reconstruction Period 1867-1876 for unconstitutional reasons, such as illiteracy.
Black Legislators
Farmers that agreed to work on landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed.
Sharecropping
Farmers who agree to work on the landowner’s property were required to provide a share of the crop, these farmers usually owned their own equipment, but rented the land to grow crops.
Tenant Farming
A group of 3 politicians Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon who dominated Georgia politics for of 20 years during the New South Era.
The Bourbon Triumvirate
Editor for the Atlanta Journal during the New South Era that promoted the concept of the “New South”
Henry Grady
Political Party 1892-1908 made up of farmers that were hostile to certain groups. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate through this party.
Populist Party, also known as” the Farmers Alliance”
