Social Studies Terms

The document that set up the framework for current government. Written in 1787 and ratified 1788

The first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution

The legislature of the state of GA; senate and house or representatives

A system of distributing land by which each white male as the "head" of a family had the right to receive up to 1000 acres

The sale of western land to four land companies after the governor and members of the general assembly had been bribed

A transaction which the U.S. at the urging of president Jefferson, bought from France for $15 million

a sharp economic downturn; businesses and banks fail, farmers lose land; people loose jobs

A road that travelers had to pay a fee or toll to use

The stopping of all trade with a foreign country

A group of symbols that stand for who syllables

War along the oconee river between the creek led by alexander McGillivary and the settlers

Treaty that ended the oconee war; the creek gave up all their land east of the oconee river

Those native Americans in the early 1800's who WANTED war with the white settlers

Those native Americans in the early 1800's who DID NOT WANT war with the white settlers

A treaty signed in 1825 by which the lower creek gave up the last creek lands in GA to the federal government for $200,000

Legal court action emigrate- to move to another place

Name given to the forced removal of the Cherokee to Indian territory