Regions of Georgia
Peidmont
This document established the colony of Georgia in 1732.
Charter of 1732
This Amendment gave Black men the right to vote after the Civil War.
15th Ammendment
This Movement aimed to end all forms of segregation in Albany, Georgia
Albany Movement
An era of social, economic and political restructuring that led to black enfranchisement (right to vote) as well as black oppression and terrorization.
Reconstruction
This boundary separates Georgia's Piedmont region from the Coastal Plain region.
Fall Line
This Spanish explorer was the first European to see the interior of the American Southeast.
Hernando De Soto
This act was apart of the New Deal and it paid farmers to produce fewer crops in order to raise prices.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act or AAA
Georgia hosted this event in 1996 and as a result, saw economic and population growth.
Olympics
The time frame before the Civil War was called
The Antebellum Period
This region of Georgia makes up almost half of the state and is where most of the state's farming occurs.
Coastal Plain
This Yamacraw chief allowed Oglethorpe to build the settlement of Savanah.
Tomochichi
What act required enslaved Africans who ran away to be returned to the South even if they had made it to free territory the North?
The Fugitive Slave Act
City in Georgia were Jimmy Carter grew up on a peanut farm
Plains, Georiga
This Civil Rights activist represented the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987-2020.
John Lewis
This is the largest swamp in North America and is located in Georgia's Coastal Plain.
Okefenokee Swamp
These were the three reasons for Spanish exploration of the New World
God, Gold, Glory
He was known as the "voice of the New South"
Henry Grady
Who called Atlanta "the city too busy to hate"?
Ivan Allen Jr.
One of the nation's busiest ports for ocean-bound ships is located in this Georgia city
Savannah
These are the three states involved in the Tri-State Water War over the water in the Chattahoochee River
Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
What were the three reasons for the founding of Georgia as laid out in the Charter of 1732?
Philanthropy, Economics, and Defense
What two events happened that caused the U.S to join World War I?
The Sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram
He was Atlanta's first Black mayor
Maynard Jackson
The name of a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
Isolationism