Native People and Exploration
This early native civilization built wattle and daub homes, large flat-topped earthen mounds, and was organized into chiefdoms.
What is the Mississippian culture?
As a British colony, Georgia served as a geographical buffer protecting South Carolina from this country's territory.
What is Spanish Florida?
These three Georgia delegates signed the Declaration of Independence
Who are Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton?
List Georgia's five historical capitals in correct chronological order from first to last.
What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta?
Eli Whitney’s 1793 invention increased cotton processing efficiency and inadvertently skyrocketed the demand for this in the South.
What is enslaved labor?
Spain established its religious missions in Georgia along this coastal geographical feature.
What are the Barrier Islands?
She served as the key translator during land negotiations between James Oglethorpe and Yamacraw Chief Tomochichi.
Who is Mary Musgrove?
This colonial activist group in Georgia organized protests and boycotts against unfair British taxation.
Who are the Liberty Boys?
Georgia's state capital shifted westward five times throughout history due to this changing factor.
What is the westward shift of the population?
In the early 1800s, Georgia replaced the Headright System with this new method to distribute newly acquired land to citizens.
What is the Land Lottery system?
While the intended purpose of Spanish missions was to spread Catholicism, this unintended consequence severely impacted Native populations.
What is disease?
This group of German-speaking Protestant refugees fled religious persecution in Austria to settle in colonial Georgia.
Who are the Salzburgers?
Issued following the French and Indian War, this 1763 British policy prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This natural feature marks the boundary between the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions, where elevation drops create river rapids.
What is the Fall Line?
This major 1795 state scandal involved Georgia legislators accepting bribes to sell western lands cheaply to private speculators.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
Mississippians constructed these surrounding wooden post walls to protect their villages from invaders.
What are palisades?
Discontented colonists who objected to Trustee rules banning rum, land expansion, and slavery were known by this title.
Who are the Malcontents?
Under the Articles of Confederation, enacting any amendments or changes required this level of state agreement.
What is unanimous consent?
Name the five geographic regions of Georgia from northwest to south.
What are the Appalachian Plateau, Ridge and Valley, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain?
The 1829 discovery of this precious resource near Dahlonega intensified pressure to remove the Cherokee Nation from Georgia.
What is gold?
Mississippians used these hand-crafted watercraft to travel rivers and trade goods with other regions.
What are dug-out canoes?
Georgia's economic expansion during its transition from a Trustee colony to a Royal colony was primarily driven by the introduction of this labor force
What is enslaved labor?
According to the Declaration of Independence, government power comes from the people, and its main purpose is to protect these.
What are natural rights (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness)?
Located in southeastern Georgia within the Coastal Plain, this is one of North America's largest freshwater wetlands.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
Signed by a small unauthorized Cherokee group without Chief John Ross's approval, this treaty was used to force Cherokee removal.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?