Alger GA Pursuit of Land

American Indian tribe that lived in southern Georgia; removed from the state via treaties in 1820s

• Apache

• Iroquois

• Creek

• Navajo

land giving approach that provided the head of a family to to 200 acres of free land in the Georgia frontier

• land lottery

• headright system

• Yazoo Act

• free land system

approach to giving land that gave the average Georgian a chance to buy land at pennies on the dollar (for very cheap price)

• land lottery

• headright system

• Yazoo Act

• mega millions

an event where land companies bribed the General Assembly (Georgia state government) to sell land for pennies on the dollar (for very cheap)

• land lottery

• Yazoo Act

• Yazoo Land Fraud

• headright system

branch of government that makes laws

• tax

• executive

• judicial

• legislature

the first state-sponsored public university in the United States, founded 1785

• University of Georgia (UGA)

• Georgia Tech

• University of Alabama

• Bunche Middle School

S.A.L.M.A.

• Savannah, Augusta, Lovettsville, Macon, ATL

• Savannah, Austin, Louisville, Macon, Atlanta

• Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta

• Savannah, Augusta, Milledgeville, Atlanta

one of the Georgia signers of the U.S. Constitution, first president of UGA

• Walter

• Gwinnett

• Lyman Hall

• Abraham Baldwin

Agreement at the Constitutional Convention that stated the USA would have a two-house legislature based on equal vote (senate) and on state population (house of representatives)

• Great Agreement

• Great Compromise

• Good Compromise

• The Meh Compromise

USA's first constitution, failed because of weak national (federal) government

• Articles of Confederation

• Proclamation of 1763

• U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Independence