Native Americans, Exploration and the Colonial Period
American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution & the Development of Georgia
Civil War and Reconstruction
World War I & II
Civil Rights and Modern History
100
Hernando DeSoto
Who is the Spanish explorer who marched through Florida and Georgia in search of gold?
100
The reason that the French and Indian War led to the American Revolution.
What is the British had a huge war debt?
100
The belief of southern states during the Civil war that state’s interests were more important than the interests of the national government.
What is states’ rights?
100
What two events occurred after World War I that weakened Georgia’s agriculture-based economy?
What are the boll weevil and drought?
100
Court decision which declared “separate-but-equal” unconstitutional in public education.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
The man who developed a plan that promised a fresh start in the New World to debtors in English jails
Who is James Oglethorpe?
200
A great controversy where land on Georgia’s western border was sold illegally
What is the Yazoo Land fraud?
200
Georgia Confederate official who served as vice-president of the Confederacy
Who is Alexander Stephens?
200
Why did F.D.R. create the Alphabet Agencies?
What is he was trying to get the country out of the Great Depression by creating jobs?
200
Human rights was an important element of this presidents foreign policy.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
300
Georgia was created to be a ________ state because it separated British South Carolina from Spanish Florida.
What is a 'buffer' state.
300
The supreme court justice who ruled that the Cherokee were not subject to state law
Who is John Marshall?
300
The leader of the populist party who was from Georgia.
Who is Tom Watson?
300
The U.S. started this system to get supplies to the Allies during WW II.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
300
The March on Washington
What is a Civil Rights political rally held at the Washington Monument?
400
The oldest known Native American culture.
What is Paleo culture?
400
The main weakness of the Georgia Constitution in 1777, caused because the constitution created a unicameral legislature
What is it gave too much power to the legislative branch?
400
The Georgia Platform supported this piece of legislation
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
One of Georgia’s industries that gave a major contribution to the war effort.
What is the Bell Bomber Plant?
400
Legislation that made segregation in all public facilities illegal.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
500
The malcontents
Who were Georgia colonists who didn't like Oglethorpe's restrictive laws?
500
Colonel Elijah Clarke defeated the British in this battle, which was the first victory Georgia had in the Revolutionary War
What is the Battle of Kettle Creek?
500
The goal of the Bourbon Triumvirate
What is keeping the southern tradition of white supremacy and/or ‘redeeming’ Georgia from the hardships it experienced in the Civil War?
500
Georgia governor who removed restrictions on African American policemen so that the police force was integrated
Who is Lester Maddox?
500
A system of election which was designed to maintain the power of the rural areas in Georgia even though the greatest population growth was in urban areas.