What is the main difference between a civil and criminal trial?
A civil trial is dispute between 2 citizens; a criminal trial is between the state and an accused criminal.
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What is an example of a status offense?
A curfew violation
Running away from home
Truancy
Underage possession of alcohol or tobacco
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What event marked the end of the Creeks presence in Georgia?
The Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)
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What issue is arguably the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
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What did Alexander Stephens write in order to show Georgia's support for the Compromise of 1850?
The Georgia Platform
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The Georgia judicial branch's most important check on the power of the legislative branch is the power to ...
determine if laws passed by the General Assembly are constitutional.
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The University of Georgia had the land for the college donated by the federal government ...this is called a ...
land grant university
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What word means to make an attempt to fit into a culture such as how Sequoyah developed a written language (syllabary)for the Cherokee?
Assimilate
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What term is used for the doctrine held by Southern states that they could refuse to enforce any federal law they thought was unconstitutional?
Nullification
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The law passed in 1854 to allow territories to vote on whether or not to allow slavery when they became a state was a key feature of the...
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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A town or city with a charter from the General Assembly has its own government, led by a city council and a mayor, and revenues from sales taxes, property taxes, and user fees is known as a ...
Municipality
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What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?
It distributed Creek Indian land on the east side of the Oconee River to new settlers between 1783 and 1803.
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Fertile farmland is to Creek culture as discovery of gold is to...
Cherokee culture
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What best describes the Missouri Compromise?
It maintained the balance between slave and free states in the U. S. Senate
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Abolitionists were angered by the ruling that slaves were not citizens in what Supreme Court case that pushed the nation closer to war?
Dred Scott case
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Which level of government offers mental health services, provides clean water, plans land use and development, sheriff's department, and operation of jails?
County government
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What scandal took place in Georgia that involved the governor and General Assembly members taking bribes to sell state-owned land to developers for below market prices?
The Yazoo land fraud
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Antebellum describes the period of U.S. History before the...
Civil War
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The idea that a state could secede (break away) from the U.S. over an issue such as collection of tariffs is known as
State's rights
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The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was controversial because
He received only 40% of the total popular vote from only one section of the country but won 60% of the Electoral College vote
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What does an informal adjustment require in the Georgia juvenile system for a first-time offender?
Admit wrong doing
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What was the most important invention in Georgia's economy during the 1790's?
Cotton gin
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What is the antebellum term for each region's belief that it's ideas and interests were more important than the other's?
Sectionalism
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How did the Compromise of 1850 change the Missouri Compromise?
It allowed California to enter the U.S. as a free state
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What was the response of seven Southern states immediately after the election of Abraham Lincoln?