MILESTONES REVIEW STUDY GUIDE/FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

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UNIT 1: GEOGRAPHY AND PREHISTORIC CULTURES (Chapters 1, 8)

1. List the major unique characteristics of the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Blue Ridge, Appalachian Plateau, and Ridge and Valley. 2. Identify Brasstown Bald, Okefenokee Swamp, barrier islands, fall line. 3. How has climate influenced the development of Georgia (p.25)? 4. What are unique characteristics of the Paleo Tradition (10,000-8,000 BC)? 5. What are unique characteristics of the Archaic Tradition (8,000-1,000 BC)? 6. What are unique characteristics of the Woodland Tradition (1,000 BC – 1,000 AD)? 7. What are unique characteristics of the Mississippian Tradition (1,000-1600 AD)?

UNIT 2: COLONIAL GEORGIA (Chapters 8-10)

8. What was the impact of the following on Native Americans: (a) Spanish missions, and (b) Hernando de Soto? 9. What was the Georgia charter of 1732? Who granted it? Who asked for it? 10. What was the first settlement in Georgia? In what year was it settled? 11. Name the 4 reasons for founding Georgia. Which one was unofficial? 12. Identify Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove, James Oglethorpe 13. Explain the importance in colonial GA of: Salzburgers, malcontents (why were they unhappy?), Highland Scots, and the Spanish threat from Florida 14. How did Georgia change when it became a royal colony in 1752 in terms of: (a) land ownership rules, (b) slavery, and (c) the impact of royal governors (did the economy improve or decline)?

UNIT 3: REVOLUTIONARY WAR/CONSTITUTION (Chapters 11-13) Check for Units 1, 2, &3: March 23

15. Identify the following causes of the American Revolution AND their impact on Georgia: French and Indian War, Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, Declaration of Independence 16. Identify Elijah Clarke, Nancy Hart, Austin Dabney 17. What document did Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, & George Walton all sign? 18. Contrast loyalist and patriot. 19. Why did the Articles of Confederation form a weak central government? 20. Explain the role of Abraham Baldwin and William Few at the Constitutional Convention. 21. What were Georgia’s interests at the Constitutional Convention? Why did Georgia ratify the Constitution?

UNIT 4: WESTWARD EXPANSION (Chapter 14)

22. Explain the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo land Fraud. 23. How did the cotton gin and railroads have an impact on Georgia’s growth? 24. Identify the following people and events associated with the removal of the Creeks and Cherokees: Sequoyah, John Ross, Dahlonega gold rush, Worcester v. Georgia, Andrew Jackson, Trail of Tears

UNIT 5: CIVIL WAR/RECONSTRUCTION (Chapters 15-17)

25. What was the most important crop in the antebellum period? 26. Explain how the following issues led to the Civil War: states’ rights (include nullification & secession), slavery, tariffs 27. Explain the following events that led up to the Civil War: the presidential election of 1860 (Lincoln), Alexander Stephen’s opinion on secession 28. Identify the following events of the Civil War: Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of the southern coast, and Andersonville Prison 29. How were Atlanta and many other Georgia cities destroyed during the Civil War? 30. Define sharecropping. 31. How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War? 32. Identify the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th amendments to the Constitution. 33. What were goals of groups like the Ku Klux Klan?

UNIT 6: NEW SOUTH/WWI (Chapters 18-20) Check for Units 4, 5 &6: April 10 th

34. Identify: Henry Grady, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Tom Watson, Leo Frank 35. What were the goals of the Bourbon Triumvirate (Gordon, Brown, Colquitt) and the New South movement? 36. Explain: the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, the county unit system, and the International Cotton Exposition 37. What were Jim Crow laws? 38. Explain the following methods of disfranchising African Americans: white primary, poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause 39. Identify the contributions and views of John Hope, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Alonzo Herndon 40. How did WWI improve Georgia’s economy? UNIT 7: GREAT DEPRESSION, WWII (Chapters 21-23)

41. Describe the impact of the boll weevil and drought on Georgia 42. Explain the economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression: laissez faire, speculating, surplus/overproduction, the stock market crash 43. What were the views and accomplishments of Eugene Talmadge (include his accomplishments as governor and New Deal views)? 44. Explain the role of the following New Deal programs; Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act. 45. Describe these events leading to WWII; Lend-Lease Act, bombing of Pearl Harbor. 46. Explain the importance of the following to Georgia: Bell Aircraft, the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards, Richard Russell, Carl Vinson 47. What was the Holocaust? How did it affect Georgia? 48. Where did FDR have a home to receive polio treatment? How did this impact the state? 49. How did Ellis Arnall impact Georgia (what did he do/change)?

UNIT 8: MODERN ERA (Chapters 24-26) Check for Units 7 & 8: April 17 th

50. Explain how the following contributed to Georgia’s growth; changes in agriculture (technology, decrease in farmers), development of Atlanta, William Hartsfield, Ivan Allen, Jr., and major league sports. 51. Explain the significance of: Benjamin Mays and Martin Luther King, Jr. 52. Explain the following events/issues: the 1946 governor’s race (three governor’s controversy), Brown v. Board of Education, the 1956 state flag controversy (why was the 1956 flag controversial?). 53. Describe the role of these events and prominent Georgians in the Civil Rights movement: SNCC, the first black students to attend UGA, March on Washington, Civil Rights Act of 1964, the election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta. 54. What was the impact of Andrew Young on Georgia (list ALL accomplishments)? 55. How did county unit system end (court case) and what changed as a result? 56. What did Jimmy Carter do as governor? President? Former president? 57. What were TWO effects of the 1996 Olympic Games on Georgia? 58. What is an entrepreneur? How is profit a motive for entrepreneurs? How do entrepreneurs take risks?

UNIT 9: CIVICS (Chapters 2-7) Entire study guide due: April 28 th ***

59. What are the differences between the Georgia Constitution and the US Constitution? 60. Explain separation of powers, checks and balances. 61. What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens? 62. What are the voting requirements in Georgia? 63. What is the main role of political parties in government? 64. Explain the qualifications, term (how many years serving for each election?), and duties of members of the General Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives are the same EXCEPT for one of the qualifications). 65. Legislative Branch of GA: the General Assembly. a. What does the legislative branch do? b. Describe the jobs of the Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, and committee chairman c. What is the role of the lieutenant governor in the General Assembly? d. What is the purpose of committees? 66. Executive branch of GA: a. What does the executive branch do? b. What are the requirements to be governor and lt. governor (hint – they’re the same!)? c. What is the job of the lieutenant (lt.) governor? d. What are 5 formal powers of the governor? e. List at least 5 departments of the executive branch. f. How are the department leaders chosen in Georgia? 67. Judicial system of GA: a. What does the judicial branch do? b. Contrast criminal law and civil law. c. Explain the purpose of the following types of courts in Georgia: superior courts, state courts, probate courts, municipal courts d. What are the steps in the adult criminal justice process? e. What is the highest court in Georgia? 68. List the rights of juveniles when taken into custody. 69. What age range is served by the juvenile justice system? 70. Contrast status offense and delinquent behavior. 71. Explain the steps in the juvenile justice system process: include intake, detention hearing, adjudicatory hearing, and dispositional hearing 72. How does a bill become a law (list all steps)? 73. What is the purpose of counties? 74. Who authorizes the creation of counties and cities? 75. How are cities created? 76. Describe the weak mayor-council, the strong mayor-council, and the council-manager forms of city government. 77. Describe the functions of special-purpose districts/governments. Include examples. 78. What is the top way the state takes in revenue? What is the top way counties take in revenue? 79. What do governments do with tax money? 80. For what specific purpose are Georgia Lottery funds used?

***20 point bonus if entire study guide is turned in by April 19th!