1. TIMELINE SUMMARY On your own or with a partner (no groups of 3+)
ALL students need to make their OWN timeline
Create a timeline from 1770 – 1840 using 10 year increments
Add the following events to the timeline IN ORDER with specific date of event, name of event, and main person (if applicable)
Headright Land Distribution
Constitutional Convention (+2people)
Indian Removal Act (+person)
Establishment of UGA
Yazoo Land Act
Creation of Syllabary (+person)
Worcester vs. Georgia (+person)
Yazoo Land Fraud
Louisiana Purchase (+person)
Western & Atlantic Railroad started
First GA land lottery
Treaty of New York (+ person)
Sale of western GA to US
Georgia’s Gold Rush
Movement between GA capitals
The Trail of Tears
Treaty of Indian Springs (+person)
Invention of the Cotton Gin (+person)
Treaty of New Echota