Geography
Name Georgia's location in each of the following areas:
Hemisphere:
Continent:
Nation:
Region:
Nothern/Western Hemisphere
North American Continent
United States
Southeast Region
The loyalty to a particular region is called
Regionalism
The ______ Amendment gave African-Americans (newly freed slaves) citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th ammendment
____________________, a journalist from Georgia, promoted a new idea for what the south should become; he used his job as editor of the Atlanta Constitution to promote his ideas and planned the Atlanta International Cotton Expo.
Henry Grady
What are the 5 states surrounding GA?
Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina.
The loyalty to a particular nation is called
Nationalism
The ______ Amendment gave all male citizens, no matter the color of their skin, the right to vote.
15th Ammendment
Henry Grady became known as the “Voice of the __________.”
New South
Name the 5 regions of Georgia.
Coastal Plains, Peidmont, Blue Ridge, Appalachian Plateau, Ridge and Valley
This was a law that made it illegal to help runaway slaves and allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and returned to their owner.
The Fugitive Slave Act.
Laws created to prevent African-Americans from voting, testifying against whites in court, or serving on a jury were called _______________.
Black Codes
Leo Franks case helped shine a light on the ____________________ (hatred for Jews) views that Southerners felt.
Anti Semitism
Name the 6 phyiscal features of Ga?
Appalachian Mountains, Okefenokee Swamp, Barrier Islands, Chattahoochee River, Savannah River
The _____________ allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, a document that freed slaves in all REBELLING states.
The Battle of Antietam
Farmers who agreed to work on a landowners’ property in exchange for land, but were able to provide their own equipment, in exchange for a portion of their crop is called a ____________________.
Tennet Farmer
First black man to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged African-Americans to resist the segregation system and discrimination, and helped to create the NAACP.
WEB Deboise
Name ALL the Capitals of Georgia
Augusta, Savannah, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
____________, a Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia, was commanded by Henry Wirz.
Andersonville
The Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist organization in the south, did everything within their power to remove ____________________ from their seats after 1876.
African Americans
Former slave who became a millionaire and successful entrepreneur, owning a barbershop for the elite and the Atlanta
Alonzo Hernan