Georgia Geography
This is the smallest region in Georgia located in the Northwest corner, agriculture is limited, Lookout Mountain can be found here, and mining of coal was once important?
Appalachian Plateau.
One of the leaders of the New South movement and editor for the Atlanta Constitution.
Henry W. Grady
What 2 things that deal with transportation makes Atlanta a very populated area?
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and railroads
How do we know what Hernando de Soto did to the Native Americans?
They left journals
What was the stamp act?
The first direct tax on the American colonies, requiring a purchased stamp on all paper goods—newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards
Which region has fertile soil for framing, red cray, granite, and has majority of the states population?
The Piedmont
The Leo Frank case involved a 13-year-old little girl who was murdered. What was her name?
Mary A. Phagan
Who was voted as the first African American mayor of Atlanta?
Maynard Jackson
This tribe built mounds, made houses out of wattle and daub, divided its people into commoners and elites, lived in villages and traded with other tribes, and existed from around 100-1500's.
The Mississippians
Who were the Patriots/Whigs?
American colonists who opposed British rule and supported independence during the American Revolution
This region has the highest point in Georgia (Brasstown Bald), the highest waterfall (Amicalola), mining, minerals, gold, and is located in the northeast corner of the state.
Blue Ridge
These laws were set up to encourage racial segregation.
Jim Crow Laws
This person was a civil rights leader, mayor of Atlanta, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and co-chairman of the Atlanta Olympic Games.
Andrew Jackson Young
This country claimed most of the lands on the eastern part of the U.S. and created 13 colonies.
Great Britain/ England
Who were the Loyalists/Tories?
American colonists who opposed independence from Britain during the American Revolution
This region has major transportation routes between Georgia and Tennessee; key Civil War battles fought in this region and is known as the "Carpet Capital of the World".
Valley and Ridge
Denying a person their right to vote is known as what?
Disfranchisement
This person learned nonviolent protest from Gandhi and was a mentor/father figure to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Bayard Rustin
What did France discover that gave them an incentive to want to claim lands in the New World?
Natural resources
Why were colonist mad about the Proclamation of 1763?
Prohibiting settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, restricting expansion into the lucrative Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War
Name the 5 regions of Georgia.
Appalachian Plateau, Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plains
Name one thing that was created to keep African Americans from voting in the South.
Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, or violent intimidation
What are 3 of the 6 things Ellis Arnall is known for as the governor of Georgia?
Lowering the voting age to 18, eliminating the poll tax, and paying off the state's $36 million debt
Name 2 of the 4 purposes for the mississippian mounds.
Ceremonial places, cemeteries, Symbolic Territorial Markers, or Platform for Elite Residences
This person was a 6- foot red headed woman that was believed to be a patriot spy that captured loyalist.
Nancy Hart