Georgia Geography
If you were to look on a globe, in which hemisphere would you find Georgia?
Western hemisphere
A stick used by the early American Indians to propel a sphere?
Atlatls
Name the 5 capitals of Gorgia in order.
Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta
When a state declares that a federal law does not apply to them?
Nullifacation
The new south movement showed a move towards what kind of economy for Georgia?
Georgia toward a modern, industrialized economy that was diversified beyond just agriculture.
Which continent is Georgia located on?
Eastern Europe and West Asia
List 4 native American tribes from primitive to most Advanced?
Paleo-Indians, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian's
This was the first land grant charter and state-supported college in the U.S.
The University of Georgia
When terrorist had the right to vote on slavery in their state.
popular sovereignty
The county unit system benefited which rural group of people?
white residents in thinly populated, rural counties
Which river flows to GA from another state?
Chattahoochee River
How do we know what Hernando de soto did to the Native Americans?
through a combination of surviving Spanish primary documents—journals written by expedition members—and modern archaeological evidence
The slave population and cotton production because of this invention.
The Cotton Gen
To withdraw or leave from a country.
secession
Deniying a person their right to vote is known as what?
Disfranchisement
This physical feature has running water that is used to create hydroelectricity and divides the regions of the Coastal Plaines and Piedmont?
Fall Line
What did France discover that gave them an incentive to want to claim lands in the New world?
fur (especially beaver pelts) and fish (cod)
These were the two major religions in Georgia after the American Revolution
Baptists and Methodists
What was the last event that led directly to southern states seceding?
The election of Republican Abraham Lincoln
These laws were set up to encourage racial segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
Name 5 regions of GA?
Appalachian plateau, Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Coastal plane
This type of rock was used by the Mississippian Indians to make Knives
Chert
Where were the first African Baptist Church in Georgia located?
23 Montgomery Street in Savannah, Georgia
what does secede mean?
to formally withdraw from an organization, country, or alliance, often to become independent
Name one thing that was created to keep African Americans from voting in the south?
Poll taxes, Grandfather Clauses, Violence and Intimidation,