Prehistoric Georgia
What is mercantilism?
Exporting more than importing
This act allowed two territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty in 1854.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.
What is World War 2
An African American man who spokesman for the Montgomery Bus boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr
What is a military protective zone between English and Spanish settlements?
Buffer Colony
What is the governing congressional body of Georgia? (Legislative Branch)
Georgia General Assembly
A program under which the United States supplied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
What is the lend-lease act?
A desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
What is the Albany Movement?
What are the five regions of Georgia?
Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley & Ridge, Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Appalachian Plateau
American Patriots' term for a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
What are intolerable acts?
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
What is the battle of Pearl Harbor?
At this event the famous "I Have a Dream" speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the March on Washington
European explorers came to America for these three things.
"God, Gold, and Glory"
This war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. It lasted seven years. It resulted in Georgia's territory expansion.
What is the French and Indian War?
A war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.
What is the civil war?
Overproduction, Employment cycle, Stock Market Crash, Bank Failures
What are the economic factors of the great depression?
A segregationist who rose to fame after refusing serve African Americans at his restaurant. He later became a governor of GA and his views changed. His decisions as Governor were progressive towards racial reform.
Who is Lester Maddox
This culture is also credited for technological advancements, including the use of the bow and arrow for hunting, and pottery for storage.
What is the Woodland Indians?
Separated colonial settlers from Indians after the French and Indian War to reduce conflict. Colonist could not settle in lands West of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the proclamation of 1763?
A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which decided between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–48).
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock.
What is the agricultural adjustment act?
What was the strategy of protesting for equal rights during the Civil Rights movement?
Non-violence or peaceful protesting