| A | B |
|---|
| University of Georgia | first state sponsored universtiy in the nation |
| headright system | the first way Georgia distributed land |
| quadrupled | what happened to Georgia's population between 1790 and 1840 |
| reason the capital was moved | to stay in the center of the population |
| manifest destiny | the belief that our nation should extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| 1790 | year of the first U.S. Census |
| Yazoo Land Fraud | scandal in which land speculators bribed political leaders to sell them public land at low prices |
| Yazoo Land Act | burned and repealed in Louisville |
| Appalachian Mountains | natural barrier that forced settlers southward |
| headright system | 200 acres for the head of the family and 50 acres for each additional family member |
| Creeks and Cherokees | gaved up 2 million acres as payment to white settlers |
| cede | to give up |
| census | an official count of the population |
| plats | maps of land lots |
| repeal | to abolish |
| Savannah | first capital of Georgia |
| Augusta | second capital of Georgia |
| Louisville | third capital of Georgia |
| Milledgeville | fourth capital of Georgia |
| Atlanta | fifth capital of Georgia |
