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Unit 6: Westward Expansion-Part 2
Contributed by: Branford
  • 1. What impact did cotton have on GA's economy during the 1800s?
A) It became the most important crop to the state's economy and ensured that the state remained dependent on slavery
B) It decreased in importance as more textile mills opened
C) It led to the state's increased dependence on trade as Georgia imported most of their supply of cotton from other states and overseas
D) It decreased the need for slaves because the state had less rice plantations
  • 2. Increased markets, more efficient trade, and the rise of Atlanta can all be attributed to
A) the establishment of the railroads in the 1800s
B) conflicts between Georgian's and Native Americans
C) Sherman's "march to the sea"
D) the Yazoo Land Fraud
  • 3. Who was William McIntosh?
A) The BEST of all the Chiefs of the Creek Indians
B) Chief of the Creek Indians who sold away all their land
C) The inventor of the McIntosh computer
D) Chief of the Cherokee Indians who traded away all their land
  • 4. Why did Chief William McIntosh die?
A) He fought bravely in a battle with another Native American tribe.
B) He did not look before falling into a Creek.
C) He sold the Creek land without tribal permission.
D) He was very old, as Chiefs are.
  • 5. What did John Ross demand?
A) The U.S. to call them "American Indians"
B) The U.S. to give back all lands taken.
C) The U.S. to leave the New World.
D) The U.S to honor treaties and protect all Native Americans.
  • 6. What did the judge John Marshall decide?
A) That Georgia law did not apply to the American Cherokee Natives.
B) All American Cherokee Natives could remain in Georgia.
C) Chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla ice cream.
D) All American Cherokee Natives could not remain in Georgia.
  • 7. What did Andrew Jackson sign?
A) The Indian relocation act
B) The Indian removal act
C) The Indian Holiday act
D) The Indian protection act
  • 8. The Dahlonega Gold Rush provided
A) land to white settlers.
B) gold and land to white settlers.
C) gold to white settlers.
D) gold, God, and glory to white settlers.
  • 9. What did Worcester v. Georgia declare?
A) Cherokee Nation had to start the Trail of Tears
B) Cherokee Nation had to leave Georgia
C) Cherokee Nation was sovereign (free nation)
D) Cherokee Nation was allowed to stay
  • 10. What was the Trail of Tears?
A) The forced removal of American Indians
B) Propaganda by the American Indians to fight removal from Georgia
C) A trail in which many clothes were torn
D) A trail in which one could track the movements of the American Indians
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