Name ______date _____ class______
GUIDED READING Chapter 6
Section 2
Directions: Use the information on pages 177-178 to complete the following statements.
1. Under the headright system, each ______counted as "head" of a family and
had the ______to receive up to 1,000 acres of land east of the Oconee River.
2. Circle the letter of the correct answer to the following question. The events that resulted in
land companies being allowed to buy western Georgia lands for about 1 1/2 cents an acre
became known by what name?
A. Louisiana Purchase C. Yazoo land fraud
B. public domain lands D. land lottery
3. In 1802, Georgia ______its land west of the ______to the
federal government.
Section 3
Directions: Use the information on pages 179-183 to complete the following statements.
1. Name two helpful developments in Georgia and the rest of the country that occurred after the
Revolutionary War.
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2. During this period, Georgia's two major agricultural crops were ______
and ______.
3. One of the reasons that the cotton gin was an important invention was because it allowed
workers to separate about ______pounds of cotton seed a day, whereas before the
invention a worker might have been able to separate only ______pounds a day.
4. What happened during the depression years of the late 1830s and early 1840s?
Section 4
Directions: Use the information on pages 184-188 to complete the following statements.
1. The two different Georgias in the late 1700s and early 1800s were the adventurous life of the
______and the settled life of the growing ______.
2. Name two ways in which life was different in Georgia's towns than it was on the frontier.
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3. Who was Richard Allen, and which religious denomination did he found?
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4. True or false, most Georgia females attended college during the late 1700s and early 1800s.
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Section 5
Directions: Use the information on pages 189-191 to complete the following statements.
1. True or false, President Jefferson's 1807 embargo was successful. ______
2. Who were the War Hawks?
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3. In 1814, the British burned the city of ______.
4. List three ways that the United States gained after the War of 1812.
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Section 6
Directions: Use the information on pages 192-203 to complete the following statements.
1. What happened to Native Americans in Georgia during the time period 1783-1838?
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2. The Native American tribe considered to be the most advanced was the ______.
3. Circle the letter of the correct answer below. The syllabary developed by Sequoyah was
important to the Cherokee for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
A. It gave the Cherokee a written form of their language.
B. It demonstrated that Native Americans could communicate with each other without
using the language of the white settlers.
C. It allowed most of the tribes to read and write the new symbols in about six months.
D. It made Sequoyah the first Native American elected to Congress.
4. The first Native American newspaper was the ______, and this paper
made it possible to spread news among all the tribes of the Cherokee Nation.
5. How many branches of government made up the Cherokee government, and what were the
names of the branches?
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6. How long did the so-called peace between the Creek and the Georgia settlers last?
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7. In their defeat at Horseshoe Bend, the Creek surrendered to Jackson and gave most of their
lands to ______.
8. Circle the letter of the correct answer to the following question. Why was Creek Chief William
McIntosh killed?
A. Because he was a spy
B. As a warning to other Creek who might want to give Creek land to white men
C. Because his brother made a secret deal with white settlers
D. As a punishment for war crimes
9. The name of the bill that Congress passed in 1830 that called for all Native Americans to be
moved to the western territories was the ______.
10. Explain how the Treaty of Washington between the Creek and the U.S. government was broken.
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11. Georgia was making plans to get rid of the Cherokee because Georgians wanted to
______Cherokee land and also to mine the ______that had been found on
Cherokee land.
12. A law passed on December 18, 1929, (circle one) refused/ allowed the Cherokee rights to
gold mined in the Dahlonega area.
13. What happened in the Cherokee capital of New Echota in December 1835?
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14. Approximately how many Native Americans were displaced from their land between the
Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears?
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