Colonial Georgia
Who was James Oglethorpe?
Founder of the GA colony
This document has a Preamble, list of complaints against King George, and the colonists declare their independance.
Declaration of Independence
High tariffs were placed on the South. How did South Carolina respond to these in the 1830's?
Adopting a policy of nullification, declaring the laws unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state.
What British passenger ship was sunk that included the killing of 128 Americans on board in 1915?
What is the RMS Lusitania?
Name the five capitals of Georgia in order.
What is Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta?
True or False: Tomochichi gave the Yamacraw Bluff to James Oglethorpe?
The correct answer is true
What was the Stamp Act?
a law passed by the British Parliament that forced American colonists to pay a direct tax on almost all paper goods, including legal documents, newspapers, playing cards.
The formation of this was set up to prevent former slaves from exercising their rights.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This was sent from Germany as an attempt to get Mexico to attack the U.S. in return for lands taken from Mexico in the 1800's.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Because of this, Georgia had to give up land in what is now Alabama and Mississippi?
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
Who did Mary Musgrove help from Great Britain and the Yamacraw Tribe to get along?
What does "No taxation without representation" mean?
Complaints of American colonists against British rule arguing that Parliament could not legally tax them because they had no elected representatives there.
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which said there would be no more of this in the south.
What is Slavery
This event happened on December 7, 1941
Which trial was Cherokee Cheif John Ross a part of where the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation had a right to self-government.
What is Worchester VS Georgia?
What were 3 rules that were enforced by the trustees that the colonists were supposed to follow?
Ban on slavery, No rum or alcohol, Restriction on land ownership
Tell at least three causes that led to the American Revolution?
Taxation without representation, the Intolerable Acts, The Proclamation of 1763, Mercantilism and Trade Restrictions.
This black legislator was refused service by hotel and business owners at the capital of Milledgeville because he was an African American that held a political office.
Who is Henry McNeal Turner?
What was the mass extermination of 6 million Jews and other minorites by the Nazis?
What is the Holocaust?
Which president signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which eventually led to the Trail of Tears?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
What is mercantilism?
economic system in which governments seek to increase national wealth and power by maximizing exports, minimizing imports, and accumulating precious metals.
This person was a 6-foot red headed woman that was believed to be a patriot spy that captured loyalists.
Who is Nancy Hart?
How did agriculture change after the Civil War?
After the Civil War, American agriculture shifted from manual, small-scale farming to industrialized, commercial production.
This person wanted to be able to fight with a navy in the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean at the same time. Later he had a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after him and was known as the father of the two-ocean navy?
Who is Carl Vinson?
George Guess, also known as Sequoya, designed what for the Cherokee Indians as a way to communicate?
What is the Cherokee syllabary?