Georgia Studies
This is a specific event like a thunderstorm, while climate is the average weather condition.
What is weather?
This system allowed a tenant to use land in exchange for a share of the crop, often keeping freedpeople in a cycle of poverty.
What is Sharecropping?
This occurs when one company dominates an entire industry.
What is a Monopoly?
Journalists who used sensational investigation to uncover problems in society.
What is a Muckraker?
The "spark" that started WWI when a Serbian nationalist assassinated the Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
What is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
The principle that power is shared between the Federal and State governments.
What is Federalism?
Laws passed in the former Confederacy to control African Americans after Emancipation, limiting their rights.
What are Black Codes?
This entrepreneur had a monopoly with Standard Oil and controlled 40% of the nation's economy before it was broken up.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Woodrow Wilson's plan for a lenient peace treaty with Germany, which was rejected by other Allied powers.
What are the 14 Points?
This branch of the government is led by the President or Governor and is responsible for enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to make money, sometimes viewed as exploiting the South.
What are Carpetbaggers?
This act created a merit-based system to hire government officials, aiming to fix corruption like patronage.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This progressive president's policy was known as the "Square Deal" and focused on Consumer Protection, Conservation, and Control Corporations.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Germany's action that involved asking Mexico to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Georgia's largest transportation asset, which is connected to the highway and rail system and acts as a foreign trade zone.
This constitutional amendment ended slavery (except as punishment for a crime).
What is the 13th Amendment?
A person that invests their own time, money, and skills on the chance of making a profit.
What is an Entrepreneur?
The Supreme Court ruling that established the doctrine of "Separate but Equal," which legalized segregation.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This time period was known for great achievements by African-Americans in art, music, and literature, with Jazz as its first original American art form.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The four principles for which the Georgia Flag stands.
What are Wisdom, Justice, Moderation & Courage?
The Reconstruction plan that was lenient, aimed to restore the union fast, and was led by the Executive branch.
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
The process that increased the quality and quantity of steel, allowing for the construction of skyscrapers and extensive railroads.
What is the Bessemer process?
She was a reformer who founded Hull House, a famous settlement house that provided social services to the urban poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
He invented the assembly line, making cars cheaper and more affordable for Americans.
Who is Henry Ford?