GA Studies POWERPOINT REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. In which two hemispheres is Georgia located?

2. What are the factors that make Georgia good for farming and tourism?

3. What is significant about the Fall Line?

4. What weapon was important to the nomadic Paleo Indians?

5. Which Indian group used the bow and arrow, started to settle down in one spot and formed tribes?

6. What Spanish explorer first reached Georgia?

7. Besides their advanced weapons, what did the Europeans bring that killed many Indians?

8. Missions were used by the Spanish to spread ______.

9. Who was Tomochichi? And who helped translate, trade, and keep peace between Oglethorpe and the Indians?

10. After the Boston Tea Party, the ______punished Boston colonists by forcing them to house British

soldiers, plus several other laws.

11. What document announced the separation of the 13 colonies from British control?

12. Georgia’s signers of the Declaration of Independence were Lyman ______, Button ______, and George

______.

13. Follow directions and watch BrainPop on causes of the American Revolution.

14. ______were against the independence movement, ______were for it.

15. What female Patriot has a county named after her?

16. Austin Dabney saved the life of ______at Kettle Creek.

17. The United States first constitution was a weak document called the ______.

18. Abraham ______and William ______helped draft the U.S. Constitution which replaced the weak Articles of

Confederation.

19. Follow directions and watch the BrainPop on the American Revolution. 20. The ______Land Fraud was an example of Government corruption where state legislators were bribed into selling

land to land companies.

21. The invention of the ______led to larger farms and the need for slave labor.

22. In Worcester vs Georgia, the Supreme Court gave the Cherokee the right to govern themselves, but unfortunately it

wasn’t enforced and led to the ______moving the Cherokee to Oklahoma.

23. The South believed in ______which allowed individual states to decide what was best for them.

24. The Missouri Compromise was over the issue of ______states and ______states being admitted to the

Union.

25. Even though California was admitted as a free state, the Compromise of ______gave the south the ______

Slave Act that returned escaped slaved to their owners.

26. The Kansas-Nebraska Act said those states had the right of popular______which meant the citizens in those

states could vote on the issue of ______

27. ______won the presidential election of 1860. He was the candidate for the ______

party.

28. The Battle of ______was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War.

29. After the Northern victory at Antietam, President Lincoln issued the ______

______that freed slaves (officially free on Jan. 1, 1863).

30. What July, 1863 Union victory was a key loss for the Confederates?

31. The Union used a naval ______to keep the South from continuing trading items like ______

with Britain

32. Union General ______burned ___% of the city during his Atlanta Campaign

33. Sherman left a path of destruction from Atlanta to ______during his ______to the ______

34. Tens of thousands of Union soldiers died in poor conditions at the prison in ______, Georgia

35. Who were the two generals involved in the surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia that saw the South

surrender to the Union thus ending the Civil War? 36. The goal of the ______Bureau was to assist freed ______

37. Free blacks usually were forced into jobs like ______where a landowner would lend them seed and tools

in return for part of their crop, or ______farming which was similar except tools and seed were usually not

loaned

38. 13th Amendment outlawed ______, the ____th Amendment granted citizenship rights to Freedmen, while the

____th Amendment gave all ______the right to ______.

39. The Bourbon Triumvirate were 3 ______supremacist Democratic governors of Georgia during reconstruction

who favored improving Georgia’s industries

40. Tom Watson formed the ______Party to protect the rights of ______

41. White and black tension exploded in the 1906 Atlanta ______

42. The ______System gave more voting power to ______south Georgia counties by not

requiring a majority of the vote. It was declared unconstitutional in ______

43. Grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy test were ways of keeping African Americans from ______

44. The U.S. entered WWI after cargo ships and the ______were sunk. Also a cause was the ______telegram,

which was an attempt by Germany to get Mexico to attack the U.S.

45. Another crucial financial cause was the ______Crash in 1929, in part caused by “Speculation”

46. What Georgia governor criticized President Roosevelt and the New Deal programs?

47. What was the purpose of the New Deal?

48. How did the Lend-Lease Act involve America in WWII?

49. What special ties did President FDR have with Georgia?

50. ______served as Atlanta’s longest running mayor and led many building projects to help

develop Atlanta.

51. ______is responsible for bringing the Braves from Milwaukee to Atlanta.

52. How do the 4 major transportation systems (railroad, highway, air, water) work together to benefit Georgia? 53. How did the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling affect the Civil Rights movement?

54. What event brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement?

55. What was the purpose of the Sibley Commission?

56. What organization focused on peaceful protests to challenge the Albany, GA bus system?

57. ______was the first elected African-American mayor of a major city, Atlanta.

58. Watch the BrainPop video about Civil Rights (slide 75), then answer the following questions:

a. What role did the Supreme Court play during the civil rights movement?

b. Why did protesters sit at lunch counters and not move until they closed?

59. When the county unit system was declared unconstitutional, ______was put into place to

ensure that voting districts were equal.

60. Who was the only Georgian to be elected as President of the United States?

61. By having a ______(Democrats and Republicans having an equal opportunity to compete in

and win elections), the state of Georgia has given its people a chance to make changes for the better.

62. What impact did the 1996 Olympics have on Atlanta?

63. What is the purpose of Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances?

64. What are some of the responsibilities of Georgia citizens?

65. What are the characteristics of a county government?

66. What are special-purpose districts?

67. What is the different between unruly behavior and delinquent behavior for juveniles?

68. What is the Seven Deadly Sins Act (Seven Delinquent Behaviors)?

69. Where does Georgia’s revenue come from?

70. A person who creates, organizes, and manages a business is known as an ______.