Unit 3 Vocabulary Choice Board

Declaration

an official statement

Constitutional Convention

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

Bill of Rights

First 10 amendments

Bicameral

Two-house legislature

Legislative

The branch of government that makes the laws

Battle of Kettle Creek

2/14/1779 (Revolutionary War), near Washington, GA, American victory captured valuable supplies from the British Showed British inability to hold interior of state & protect loyalists

Preamble

Introduction to the Constitution

Unicameral

One-house legislature

Augusta

2nd capital of Georgia

Button Gwinnett

•signer of the DOI from

GA

•Planter

•Governor (1777)

Louisville

The third capital of Georgia

Branches of Government

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

Yazoo Land Fraud

an event where land companies bribed members of the Georgia General Assembly to sell land for pennies on the dollar.

Cherokee

One American Indian tribe in the United States.

Articles

Numbered sections of a document