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100
This is the only Georgian to serve as president of the United States.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
100
This is one of the trustees' regulations that made the colonists angry.
What is no slaves, no rum, no lawyers, or no women inheriting land?
100
This group had a goal of preserving segregation and keeping other races submissive when it restarted in 1915 after Leo Frank's lynching.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
This court case in 1954 struck down the practice of "separate but equal," particularly with schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
Jury duty and paying taxes are examples of this.
What are required civic duties?
200
This person was the first African-American Congressman from Georgia, an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., mayor of Atlanta, and helped bring the Olympics to Atlanta.
Who is Andrew Young?
200
This is the reason more Georgians could move from agriculture to industry after World War II.
What is technology allowed more to be done with less people?
200
This is what replaced slave labor after the Civil War when plantation owners had a lot of land but no people to work it.
What is sharecropping or tenant farming?
200
When gold was discovered on Cherokee land, this was the main reason for putting them on this journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
200
This court has the power to declare a law unconstitutional.
What is the Supreme Court?
300
This man was one of the signers of the United States Constitution.
Who is Abraham Baldwin or William Few?
300
This is why Georgia did not want to join the American Revolution.
What is a popular royal governor and heavy trade with England?
300
The Union tried to keep the South from bringing supplies in from other countries by putting ships out in the ocean with this strategy.
What is the blockade/Anaconda Plan?
300
This is what has happened to Georgia's political parties in the last fifty years.
What is moved from one-party Democrats to two parties of Democrats and more Republicans?
300
Overriding a governor's veto, a veto, and declaring a law constitutional are all examples of this system.
What is a system of checks and balances?
400
This is the governor who lowered the voting age to 18, helped end the white primary and poll tax, and was part of the three governor controversy.
Who is Ellis Arnall?
400
This development/advancement resulted in more people and permanent settlement among Georgia's prehistoric Native Americans.
What is agriculture/farming?
400
The CCC, AAA, Rural Electrification, and Social Security are all part of this major program of president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What is the New Deal?
400
This is why most Georgians did not realize there was a Great Depression.
What is they were already poor and suffering from the boll weevil and drought?
400
This branch of government had the most power in the 1777 Constitution of Government.
What is the legislature?
500
This person gave a speech at the International Cotton Exposition called the Atlanta Compromise Speech and believed African-Americans should worry about education and not so much about equal rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
This is why many plantation owners in Georgia favored secession and wanted to join the Confederacy.
What is fear of losing slavery because Lincoln wanted to stop its spread in the west?
500
This is one of the ways people tried to disenfranchise African-Americans in the early 1900s.
What is white primary, poll tax, grandfather clause, or literacy test?
500
The Charter of 1732 started the Georgia colony. This is one of the reasons why the colony was started.
What is defense, economics (mercantilism), and charity (helping poor/debtors)?
500
This is how the General Assembly can pass a bill over a governor's veto.
What is both houses can override the veto with a 2/3's majority?
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