Unit 1
A landmass inhabited by people who share a common territory and government.
What is a nation?
The English economic policy focused on exporting more than importing.
What is mercatilism?
The first convention of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that gathered to discuss the colonists’ reaction to the Intolerable Acts.
What was the First Continental Congress?
A compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.
Who were the Bourbon Triumvirate?
Georgia region characterized by low open valleys and narrow ridges.
What is Ridge and Valley?
Churches set up by the Spanish in hopes of converting Native Americans to Christianity.
What are missions?
A war between England, France, and their Native American allies for control of North America. The English won the war and gained a large area of North America from the French. The war did not affect Georgia directly but the Georgia colony gained land after the conclusion of the conflict.
What was the French and Indian War?
A Supreme Court ruling that declared enslaved people were not citizens of the United States.
What was the Dred Scott case?
The managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the concept of the “New South.”
Who was Henry Grady?
Georgia’s largest region which makes up 3/5 of the state.
What is the Coastal Plain?
Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition through the Southeastern United States and is credited as being the first European in Georgia.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
A royal proclamation that forbade English colonists from settling newly acquired land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
The election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon Lincoln’s election, Southern states seceded from the Union.
What was the election of 1860?
A series of three large events (1881, 1885, 1895) established to display Atlanta’s growth and industrial capabilities and to lure Northern investment to the region.
What were the International Cotton Expositions?
The world’s largest landmasses.
What are continents?
The period in Georgia, beginning in 1752 and lasting until the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution in 1783, after the trustees gave authority of the colony to the king.
What is the Royal Period?
The three-part document that discusses natural rights, explains the wrongs committed by King George, and offers an official declaration of independence from England.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
A position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850.
What was the Georgia Platform?
A short-lived political party made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. At the beginning, the party was made up of both whites and blacks. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.
What was the Populist Party?
A group of mountains located in the Appalachian chain that are characterized by a “blue” haze that surrounds their peaks.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
A group of 21 men who established the colony of Georgia. Of the group, only one, James Oglethorpe, came to the colony.
Who were Trustees?
The three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Who were Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton?
The belief that a state’s sovereignty is more important than that of the national government.
What is states' rights?
Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?