Civil War
The event that prompted the Southern states to secede from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860? (Election of Abraham Lincoln)
In 1828, a significant mineral was discovered in Dahlonega, Georgia.
What is gold?
America's first constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Invention that led to growth and expansion of urban cities by transporting goods.
What is the railroad? (or trains)
The world's hottest chili pepper.
What is the Carolina Reaper?
Document that freed slaves in the Confederate states and allowed them to fight in the Union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This event led to Georgia's extension beyond the Mississippi River through fraudulent claims.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
The order of Georgia's capitals.
Savannah--Augusta--Louisville--Milledgeville--Atlanta
After the Civil War, Sherman gave this city to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
What is Savannah?
The only bird that can fly backward.
What is a hummingbird?
A former slave who sued for his freedom and lost.
Who is Dred Scott?
This policy distributed Native American lands to white settlers, which led to the growth of white settlements and ultimately to Indian Removal.
What is the land lottery?
A convention in Philidelphia that was created to make edits to the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention (of 1787)?
Fire from a magnifying glass that was used to burn the original legislation.
What is "fire from heaven"?
The name for a group of crows.
What is Andersonville (Prison Camp)?
The rehoming of thousands of American Indians to new territories in Oklahoma, while many perished along the way.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This gave Georgia more representation in Congress and more labor to expand agriculture and build infrastructure, increasing economic strength.
What is population growth?
A plan where the Union cut off Southern ports in order to destroy their economy.
What is the Anaconda Plan (or Union Blockade)?
The bottom number of a fraction.
What is a denominator?
A march led by William T. Sherman that destroyed Georgia cities from Atlanta to Savannah.
What is "March to the Sea"?
Muscogee (Creek) chief who betrayed his people by signing away their land. He was later killed for his actions.
Who is William McIntosh?
Soldiers who were loyal to the royal.
What is a loyalist?
This president and supreme court justice had a rivalry when they disputed over the ruling from Worcester v. Georgia.
Who is President Andrew Jackson and Chief Justice John Marshall?
This country's national animal is a unicorn.
What is Scotland?