Ga Geography
Northwest region of Ga, known for coal production.
What is Appalachian Plateau
Idea of following your food.
What is nomadic?
What is a loyalist?
What is someone who wanted to stay loyal to GB.
Land Grant university, Abraham Baldwin
What is UGA
States Rights/Nullification:
States have more power than Nat. Govt, can reject national laws.
Islands off the coast of GA, protect farmland.
What are the barrier islands?
The Mississippians were not nomadic because of...
What is horticulture?
Document that announced America's Freedom.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Two Indian tribes in GA
What is the Creek & Cherokee
Compromise that added Miss. as slave state, Maine as a free state. Divided at 36-30 parallel.
Missouri Compromise
This is the region we live in, contains most population.
What is the piedmont region?
The type of rock used to make Mississippian knives.
What is chert?
Elijah Clarke:
Leader at the Battle of Kettle Creek, Clarke County.
3rd Capitol of GA, Yazoo papers were burned there.
Louisville
California added as a free state, fugitive slave act created.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
Which river creates the border of GA and S. Carolina?
What is the Savannah?
Founder of Ga, wanted a debtors colony.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
1st document which established America's Govt.
What are the Articles of Confederation
3 systems for giving Indian lands to settlers:
Headright system, Yazoo Land fraud, Land Lottery
Vice President of Confederacy
Who is Alexander Stephens.
What are the 4 transportation systems of GA?
What are Highways, ports, trains, airport.
Spanish Missions were:
Establishments built to help with the spread of Catholicism.
Siege of Savannah:
Failed attempt by patriots/French to recapture Savannah.
Signed the treaty of Indian Springs:
Who is William McIntosh.
First major battle in GA, determined control of Chattanooga Railroads.
Chickamauga