What is the name of the earliest Native American group who also invented the atlatl?
Paleo
100
What is the name of the system of land distribution by which white males were considered the "head" of a family and had the "right" to receive up to 1,000 acres of land?
Head-right system
100
What is the name of the founder of Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
100
What is the main name of the people who were still loyal to the king of England, George III? What is the name of the people who were ready to cut ties with Great Britain?
Tories and Whigs
100
What is the term used when something is declared invalid?
Nullification
200
What is the name of the Native American group who were composed of 3 distinct time periods: early, middle, and late. They also invented items such as: choppers, chipping tools, spears, hooks, and a grooved axe.
Archaic
200
What are the names of Georgia's royal governors in order?
John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, and James Wright
200
What were the three main reasons for the settlement of Georgia?
Charity, economics, and defense.
200
What is the name of the three Georgian signers of the Declaration of Independence?
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton
200
What is the term used to describe a belief that a state's interests should take precedence over the interests of the national government?
States' Rights
300
What is the name of the Native American group who grew most of their own food: corn, beans, pumpkins, and squash?
Mississipians
300
What is the name of the royal governor who helped set up a bicameral legislature and the first court system, and introduced the idea of self government?
John Reynolds
300
What was the name of the charter that the king gave to Oglethorpe and his men stating the do's and don't's of what would be allowed in the new colony?
Charter of 1732
300
What is the name of the Revolutionary War hero reputedly responsible for the capture and hanging of several Tories in Georgia in 1780, after they killed her neighbor, and were bragging about the murder?
Nancy Hart
300
What is the compromise in 1820 that allowed Maine to go in as a free state and Missouri to enter in as a slave state? It kept the balance of slave states and free states and prohibited slavery above Missouri.
Missouri Compromise
400
What is the name of the Native American group who built dome-shaped huts and also introduced the bow and arrow using arrow points made out out stone, shark teeth, or deer antlers? These people also learned how to make pottery last longer.
Woodland
400
What is the name of the defenses of fences made of sharpened stakes that royal governor James Wright completed as defenses around Savannah?
Highland Scots and the Salzburgers
400
What is the name of the two interpreters that offered to help James Oglethorpe with communications between his people and the Indians?
John and Mary Musgrove
400
What is the name of the failed attempt by the American and French forces to capture Savannah from the British?
Siege of Savannah
400
What is the name of the famous case where a slave filed a lawsuit claiming he was free because his owner took him to live in free state, yet was ruled against by the Supreme Court claiming that he could not sue because he was a slave, and slaves were not citizens?
Dred Scott Decision
500
What is the name of the specific period where horticulture, the science of cultivating plants and trees, began?
Late Archaic
500
What is the name of the defenses of fences made of sharpened stakes that royal governor James Wright completed as defenses around Savannah?
Palisades
500
What is the name of the place in Savannah where James Olgethorpe landed his ship the Ann? What was the name of the chief in charge of the Indians living on that land?
Yamacraw Bluff and Tomochichi
500
What is the name of the battle where Colonel Elijah Clarke led a rebel militia group and was able to defeat 800 British forces, and gain back badly needed weapons & horses? What was the name of the African American also injured in this battle?
Battle of Kettle Creek and Austin Dabney
500
What is the name of the compromise that enacted a stronger Fugitive Slave Law, gave popular sovereignty to some states, and allowed California to enter as a free state?