Geography
What are the five Regions of Georgia?
What are the Appalachian Plateau, Blue Ridge, Ridge and Valley, Piedmont, and Coastal Plains?
Founded in 1785, this was Georgia’s first chartered university and the first state-chartered university in the United States.
What is the University of Georgia?
This two Native American groups in Georgia were forced to give up their land as settlers moved westward.
Who are the Creek Nation and Cherokee Nation?
During World War I, Georgia established this many major military installations to support the war effort.
What is five?
This future president visited Warm Springs in 1924 after being diagnosed with polio.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This river forms part of Georgia’s western border, flows through Atlanta, and joins the Flint River to create Lake Seminole.
What is the Chattahoochee River?
Georgia has had five capitals throughout its history as the state government moved locations over time. Name them.
What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta?
This tragic event in the 1830s forced many Cherokee people to move west from their homeland.
What is the Trail of Tears?
During World War I, Georgia became an important military training center. Name two of the major camps or installations established in the state and explain why they were important.
What are Fort McPherson, Camp Gordon, Camp Benning, or Camp Hancock, and they were important because they trained soldiers and supported the war effort?
In 1926, Eugene Talmadge won his first statewide election as Commissioner of this department.
What is Agriculture?
These five states share a border with Georgia, making it one of the most connected states in the Southeast.
What are Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina?
What is the Headright System?
This land policy, created in 1783, was designed to attract settlers by giving land grants to heads of households and others willing to move to Georgia.
White settlers wanted more of this resource, which caused pressure on Native American lands in Georgia.
What is land for farming and settlement?
Analyze how Eugene Talmadge’s political beliefs influenced his view of government during the Great Depression.
What is that Talmadge supported limited government involvement, opposed many relief programs, and believed people should succeed through self-reliance and hard work rather than depending on government aid?
How did serving as Commissioner of Agriculture help Talmadge build political support across Georgia?
What is that he used the Market Bulletin newspaper to reach farmers and gain support from rural voters?
This Georgia region is considered the state’s only natural source of coal.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
What is the Yazoo Act?
A law in 1795 that sold millions of acres of western Georgia land to land companies at bargain prices.
The U.S. government often used these unfair agreements to force Native Americans to surrender territory.
What are treaties?
Analyze how the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Rural Electrification Administration changed daily life in Georgia during the Great Depression. Use evidence from both programs.
What is that the CCC gave young men jobs building parks and conservation projects, while the Rural Electrification Administration brought electricity to rural communities, improving farms, homes, and quality of life?
Talmadge opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal because he believed it encouraged this.
What is government dependence?
Why is the Okefenokee Swamp important to Georgia?
This massive wetland is important to Georgia because it provides wildlife habitat, supports tourism, and serves as the headwaters for two major rivers.
Analyze how Eli Whitney’s 1793 invention of the cotton gin changed Georgia’s economy and social structure by 1860. Explain at least two major effects.
What is that the cotton gin made cotton faster and more profitable to produce, causing cotton to become Georgia’s main cash crop, while also increasing the demand for enslaved labor and tying Georgia’s economy closely to slavery?
Analyze how westward expansion affected Native Americans in Georgia during the 1830s and explain one reason the government supported removal.
What is that Native Americans lost their homes and were forced west on the Trail of Tears because the government wanted land for farming and settlement over Native sovereignty?
Analyze how Warm Springs Institute affected both Franklin D. Roosevelt and people seeking treatment in Georgia.
What is that Warm Springs helped Roosevelt recover strength after polio and also provided therapy and medical care for people with disabilities and other health conditions?
Analyze how Eugene Talmadge used executive power to carry out his promises while governor. Give two examples.
What is that he lowered auto tag prices by executive order, replaced officials who disagreed with him, and declared martial law to control the highway board?