Before Civil War
This scandal made Georgia lose land but gain the promise that the Cherokees and Creeks would be moved west.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
Georgia held three of these between the years of 1881 and 1895 to encourage businesses to come to the state.
What is an exposition or Cotton Expo
He is the chief Enforcer in Georgia's Executive Branch.
Who is the Governor, Brian Kemp?
This is the river that forms the border between Georgia and South Carolina.
What is the Savannah River?
This is one of the minerals Georgia is ranked first in for mining.
What is granite? OR What is marble? (Either of these questions will work.)
This is one of the methods Georgia used to distribute land in the late 1700s and early 1800s after the American Revolution.
What is the headright system? OR What is the land lottery system? (Either question will work.)
These laws were passed to enforce segregation after slavery went away, and African Americans gained citizenship. These laws sound like a person's name.
What are "Jim Crow" laws?
Georgia created 159 of these to carry out state laws and programs on a local level.
What is a county?
This is Georgia's largest freshwater wetland.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
During the antebellum period, this was a cheap source of labor for large farms.
What is a slave?
This document sent to King George cut the ties between the American colonies and Great Britain.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
This group of men helped Georgia through tough economic times after Reconstruction, but they did not help out the poor working conditions in factories.
What is the Bourbon Triumvirate?
This Branch is responsible for creating laws in Georgia.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This physical feature in Georgia is important to the state's development because it has fast-flowing streams that will provide hydroelectricity.
What is the Fall Line?
This 1996 event brought an economic boom to Atlanta, Georgia.
What is the Olympics?
This colony was created by the British as a buffer region to prevent Spanish and Native Americans from invading South Carolina.
What is Georgia?
This system of farming that was usually between former slaves and their owners kept many African-Americans in poverty even after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
This is considered a basic duty of a citizen that one might be called upon to perform. You would attend a court hearing and decide guilt or innocent.
What is jury duty?
These are the two hemispheres where Georgia is located.
What are northern and western?
Georgia invested heavily in this new technology to transport agricultural products.
What are railroads?
The Union blockade stopped the sale of this item because it could not leave Georgia.
What is cotton?
This term coined by Henry Grady had a large part to do with the increase in new industries and manufacturing in Georgia and surrounding states.
What is "New South?"
This group has the power to declare a Georgia law unconstitutional.
What is the Georgia Supreme Court?
This geographic region is characterized by rolling farmland and is the most heavily populated area in Georgia because it contains Atlanta.
What is the Piedmont region?
More Native Americans made permanent settlements after this advancement.
What are agricultural improvements?