GOVERNMENT: JUDICIAL BRANCH (SS8CG4)
ECONOMICS: GEORGIA BUSINESSES (SS8E2)
ECONOMICS: PERSONAL MONEY MANAGEMENT (SS8E3)
RECONSTRUCTION & THE NEW SOUTH (SS8H6 & SS8H7)
EARLY GEORGIA HISTORY (SS8H1 & SS8H2)
100

What is the main difference between criminal law and civil law?

What is criminal law deals with crimes against society, while civil law deals with disputes between individuals or organizations?

100

What is profit and how does it serve as an incentive for entrepreneurs?

What is profit is the money left after expenses, and it motivates entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses?

100

What is the starting point for personal financial management?

What is income?

100

Name the three Amendments passed during Reconstruction that are numbered 13th, 14th, and 15th.

What is the 13th Amendment (abolished slavery), the 14th Amendment (granted citizenship), and the 15th Amendment (protected voting rights)?

100

Name three characteristics of American Indians living in Georgia at the time of European contact.

What are culture, food, weapons/tools, and shelter?

200

Name the first step in the adult criminal justice system.

What is arrest?

200

Name three major industries in Georgia that impact economic growth.

What are agriculture, entertainment, manufacturing, service, and technology?

200

 Name two benefits of creating a household budget.

What are tracking spending, planning for expenses, identifying saving opportunities, and preventing overspending?

200

 Compare and contrast the goals of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.

What is the Freedmen's Bureau aimed to help formerly enslaved people with education, land, and employment, while the KKK sought to suppress Black rights through violence and intimidation?

200

This explorer led expeditions through the Southeast and had significant contact with American Indians in Georgia.

Who is Hernando DeSoto?

300

Describe two ways judges can be selected in Georgia.

What are election, appointment, or merit-based selection? (Accept any two valid methods)

300

Explain how entrepreneurs take risks to develop new goods and services

What is they invest money, time, and resources into new ideas with no guarantee of success, potentially losing their investment?

300

Explain the reasons for and benefits of savings.

What is savings helps prepare for emergencies, reach financial goals, and build financial security?

300

 Name two methods used to deny rights to Black Americans during the New South Era.

What are Jim Crow laws, disenfranchisement (voting restrictions), racial violence, and Plessy v. Ferguson?

300

Explain the three main reasons for settlement listed in the Georgia Charter of 1732

What are philanthropy, economics, and defense?

400

Explain the dual purpose of Georgia's judicial branch.

What is to interpret the laws of Georgia and administer justice in the legal system?

400

Describe the economic impact of Georgia's entertainment industry.

What is it creates jobs, attracts workers and tourists, generates tax revenue, and boosts local economies?

400

Describe two uses of debt and one risk associated with it.

What are debt can be used for purchases, education, or emergencies, but risks include high interest rates, inability to repay, and damaged credit?

400

Identify three individuals who worked to advance the rights of Black Americans during the New South Era.

 Who are Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Alonzo Herndon?

400

Name the three individuals who were key to establishing Savannah at Yamacraw Bluff.

Who are James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove?

500

List the steps in the adult criminal justice system beginning with arrest.

What are arrest, booking, arraignment, trial, conviction/acquittal, and sentencing?

500

 Evaluate how Georgia-based businesses in multiple industries have influenced the state's economic growth and development.

What is they provide jobs, generate tax revenue, attract investment, create infrastructure, and position Georgia as an economic hub regionally and nationally?

500

Create a personal money management plan that includes income, budgeting, savings, and debt considerations.

What is a plan that identifies income sources, allocates money to necessary expenses and savings, sets aside emergency funds, and uses debt responsibly with a repayment plan?

500

Explain what sharecropping and tenant farming were during Reconstruction and describe how they affected formerly enslaved people economically.

What is sharecropping and tenant farming were systems where formerly enslaved people worked land owned by others and shared crops as payment, often keeping them in poverty and economic dependence similar to slavery?

500

Describe the roles of at least three diverse groups that settled Georgia during the Trustee Period and explain how Georgia transitioned into a royal colony.

What are Jews, Salzburgers, Highland Scots, and Malcontents helped establish settlements; Georgia became a royal colony with changes in land ownership, the legalization of slavery, the legalization of alcohol, and shifts in government structure?

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