| A | B |
|---|
| fortunate drawers | people who won land in the lottery |
| rivers | first north-south transportation routes |
| steamboat industry | helped by the state when officials passed laws to protect river transportation |
| turnpike corporations | approved by the state government in order for roads to be built |
| turnpike | a private roadway built and maintained by a company |
| first road law of 1775 | required all males between the ages of 16 and 60 to work 12 days a year on local roads |
| Indian trails | the basis for Georgia's early roads |
| some of Georgia's planned cities | Macon, Columbus, Milledgeville, and Savannah |
| Gate City | referred to Atlanta becauseit was the main link between the Atlantic coast and the Midwest |
| Savannah River | linked the backcountry with the ocean |
| Terminus | means ending and the first name of Atlanta |
| Marthasville | second name for Atlanta |
| state legislature | This government body had to approve all divorces during the late 1700's. |
| South Carolina | first regular passenger train service in the U.S. |
| Oconee boxes | barges that carried bales of cotton downriver to ocean ports |
| 1802 | the year Georgia's boundaries were pretty much settled as they are today |
| lottery system | issued smaller land lots than the headright system had |
| Mississippi and Alabama | states drawn out of Georgia's western territory |
| Georgia Railroad | connected Atlanta and Augusta |
| Henry Blair | invented the corn harvester |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the mechanical reaper |
| Samuel Slater | invented the textile mill |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| lottery | drawing for a prize |
