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| What country owned and controlled the Mississippi River? | France |
| What is the place where a river ends? | Mouth |
| What is the place where a river begins? | Source |
| Who was the President who sent delegates to France? | Thomas Jefferson |
| Who was the ruler of France? | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| How much did the US spend for the Louisiana Territory? | $15,000,000.00 |
| Who claimed most of the land of Georgia? | Indians |
| What were the 2 programs created to give away the land of GA? | Headright & Land Lottery |
| What was the system of giving away land in which a person could claim 1000 acres? | Headright system |
| What was the problem with the headright system? | People claimed the same piece of land |
| What was the system called where people registerd to win land and a drawing was held? | Land Lottery |
| Who was the Revolutionary War hero who tried to create his own country? | Elijah Clarke |
| What was the name of Elijah Clarke's country? | Trans Oconee Republic |
| What was wrong with the Trans Oconee Republic? | A person cannot create their own country |
| What is unusual about a county named after Elijah Clarke? | He committed a crime when he attempted to establish his own country |
| Where was the Yazoo River? | A river in Mississippi |
| Where was the FRAUD in the Yazoo Land Fraud? | The people who voted to sell the land to land companies had received LAND or MONEY |
| What 2 things did the state of GA receive from the US government for the Yazoo land? | A promise to remove the Indians & $1,250,000.00 |
| List in order the 5 cities that have been the capital of GA? | Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville & Atlanta |
| Which capital was built in a swamp and malaria was problem? | Louisville |
| Which capital was created after the Civil War? | Atlanta |
| Which capital was created during the Revolutionary War? | Augusta |
| What is the other name for the War of 1812? | Second War for Independence |
| What country did the US fight in the War of 1812? | England |
| Who won the War of 1812? | NO ONE |
| What 2 things of importance happened dfuring the War of 1812? | 1. Washington, DC was attacked 2.The Star Spangled Banner was written |
| Who was President during the War of 1812? | James Madison |
| What was the original name for the White House? | The Palace |
| Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner? | Francis Scott Key |
| During what battle was the Star Spangled Banner written? | Battle for Fort McHenry |
| When did the Star Spangled Banner become the national anthem? | 1931 |
| What 4 Georgia towns are built along the Fall Line? | Macon, Milledgeville, Columbus & Augusta |
| What is the name given to where the Coastal Plain hooks on to the Piedmont? | Fall Line |
| Who built the 1st steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
| What was the name of the 1st steamboat? | Clermont |
| What was the nickname of the 1st steamboat? | Fulton's Folly |
| What is a manmade waterway to connect 2 larger bodies of water? | Canal |
| What canal crossed the state of New York? | Erie |
| What 2 canals of importance were eventually built? | Panama Canal & Suez Canal |
| What does the Panama Canal connect? | Atlantic Ocean & Pacific Ocean |
| What does the Suez canal connect? | Mediterranean Sea & Red Sea |
| What was a road built by private companies that a toll was collected upon called? | Turnpike |
| What powered the 1st wagon on rails? | Horse |
| Who invented the 1st steam locomotive? | Peter Cooper |
| What was the name of the 1st steam locomotive? | Tom Thumb |
| What nickname was given to the steam locomotives? | Iron Horse |
| What name was given to the rail line that reaced almost to Augusta through South Carolina? | Best Friend of Charleston |
| What was the 1st name for Atlanta, GA? | Terminus |
| What was the 2nd name for Atlanta? | Marthasville |
| For what is Atlanta named? | The Western & Atlantic Railroad |
