Georgia Geography
This River is a main water source for the piedmont region and separates Georgia and Alabama
What is the Chattahoochee
This Native American group built mounds.
Who are the Mississippian Indians?
Founder of Georgia colony.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
This law forced Native Americans off their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Georgia fought for this side in the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
Georgia has this many geographic regions.
What is 5?
Hernando de Soto explored Georgia for this country.
What is Spain?
Georgia was founded as a colony for this group.
Who are the worthy poor?
The Cherokee were forced west on this route.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This Union general marched through Georgia.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This region is known for its mountains and highest point, Brasstown Bald.
What is the Blue Ridge region?
This crop was important to early Native Americans.
What is corn/Maise?
Georgia became a royal colony in this year.
What is 1752?
This invention made cotton production faster.
What is the cotton gin?
This event burned much of Atlanta.
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
This river forms most of Georgia’s border with South Carolina
What is the Savannah River?
This was the main reason Europeans explored Georgia
What is to find wealth (God Gold, and Glory)?
This city was Georgia’s first capital.
What is Savannah?
Which president refused to uphold the Supreme Court ruling of the Worcester vs Georgia.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This feature separates the Coastal Plain from the Piedmont.
What is the Fall Line?
These two tribes developed after the decimation of natives by Spanish explorers
Who are the Creek and Cherokee?
Group of colonist that where not content (not happy) with the trustee rules
Who are the malcontents?
This event started the gold rush in Georgia and made it necessary to remove Indians from state.
What is the discovery of gold in Dahlonega?
This group used violence to intimidate African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?