Georgia's Geography
What is the Capital of Georgia?
Atlanta
Who is the president of the United States?
Donald Trump
What is the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
What amendment ended slavery?
Thirteenth Amendment
What amendment grants Black men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
Which region is the Agricultural center of Georgia?
The Coastal Plains
What is criminal law?
The government prosecutes someone for a crime, can result in jail time.
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves.
False
What did southern states pass due the leniency of presidential reconstruction?
Black Codes
Grants citizenship & equal protection under law
What city, south of Atlanta, is located on the Ocmulgee River?
Macon
Complete the Analogy
_____:Congress :: Atlanta:Washington D.C.
What battle began the Civil War in 1861?
The Battle of Fort Sumter
What is a Scalawag?
What did the enforcement acts do?
Allow the federal government under Grant to prosecute the KKK.
What Lake borders Georgia & South Carolina?
Lake Hartwell
What is a select committee?
A committee that meets temporarily to resolve a issue.
What is a border state?
A slave state that did not leave the union.
What three things did Southern states need to do to be readmitted to the Union under Presidential Reconstruction?
1. ratify 13th amendment
2. repeal secession
3. Cancel confederate war debt.
What two states had contested elections in 1876 that eventually led to the end of Reconstruction?
South Carolina, Louisiana
What Georgia City is known as the Carpet Capital of the world?
Dalton, GA
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What percentage of the US population died in the war?
2.5%
What did Andrew Johnson call his plan for Reconstruction?
Who were the presidential candidates in 1878 that agreed to the compromise of 1877?
Samuel Tilden & Rutherford B. Hayes