The Land of Georgia
(Chapter 2)
Let's Talk History
(Chapter 3)
The Antebellum South
(Chapter 11)
The Constitutional Gov't
(Chapter 24)
Miscellaneous Key Words from Chapters 2, 3, 11, & 24
100
The highest point in Georgia at 4,784 ft.
What is Brasstown Bald?
100
Accounts of historical events written by people who did not personally witness the events.
What are secondary sources?
100
The middle class of people in the Antebellum South.
Who were the Yeoman Farmers?
100
NOT The branch of government that the president is in charge of and NOT the branch of government that makes laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
100
A firsthand or original account of historical events.
What is a primary source of information? (Chapter 3)
200
The three mountainous regions in Georgia.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, and Appalachian Plateau?
200
The Latin abbreviation for the words that mean "in the year of the Lord."
What is A.D.?
200
A machine that is used to separate cotton from the seeds.
What is the cotton Gin?
200
A system whereby each branch of government can curb the powers of the other two branches.
What are checks and balances?
200
A person whose job it is to find out what happened in the past.
What is a historian? (Chapter 3)
300
A natural barrier that prevents boats from traveling north.
What is the Fall Line?
300
What historians call the relationship when one event appears to lead to another.
What is cause and effect?
300
The name of the man who created the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
A word that means "before the war."
What is Antebellum? (Chapter 11)
400
The place where Georgians south of the Fall Line get their water.
What is groundwater and artesian aquifers?
400
The time expression that refers to an event that occurs twice a year.
What is semiannual?
400
The language that the slaves made up.
What is Gullah?
400
The general power under which states can protect the public, consumers, or the environment.
What is police power?
400
The journey of water from ocean to rainfall, it's use and reuse on land, and then its return to the sea.
What is the water cycle? (Chapter 2)
500
Georgia's nearness to this place helps account for a usually abundant precipitation.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
A celebratory historical event to mark a 200 year period of time.
What is bicentennial?
500
The person who created the book Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit stories.
Who is Joel Chandler Harris?
500
A law that a local government can enact and enforce.
What is an ordinance?
500
The word that means "with two houses" (when referring to the legislative branch in the U.S. Congress).
What is bicameral? (Chapter 24)
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