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Geography of Georgia
Colonization
American Revolution
Government
Westward Expansion
100
What was the importance and reason for building the Underground Railroad?
What is to create an effective way to transport slaves to freedom from the south to the free northern states.
100
What country colonized Georgia and was forced by war to release Georgia from their colony in 1776?
What is Great Britain.
100
Where did the first two battles that began the American Revolution begin?
What is Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
100
Who was the spokesperson for the idea of popular sovereignty?
What is Stephen Douglas
100
What was the importance of the Missouri Compromise?
What is to expand slavery to the upper Midwest of the U.S.
200
What is the Coastal Plain reion of Georgia seperated from the Piedmont Plateau by?
What is the Fall Line.
200
Georgia became a royal colony in 1752. What is a royal colony?
What is one directly governed by the king.
200
What was the one major thing that the U.S. wanted from Great Britain that called for the American Revolution?
What is independence.
200
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
What is Jefferson Davis.
200
What was the first state to secede from the union in the United States of America?
What is South Carolina.
300
Which region in Georgia is the smallest physiographic areas?
What is the Appalachian Plateau Region.
300
What was the meeting held in Georgia for Georgia's growing unhappiness with their Great Britain ties?
What is the Provincial Congress.
300
The ones during the American Revolution who were ready to cut ties with GreatBritain were called...
What is Patriots.
300
The push closer to war between the north and south was caused more by the Dred Scott decision because...
What is the federal government could not stop slavery in territories.
300
Who was the conductor of the Underground Railroad?
What is Harriet Tubman.
400
What is the Blue Ridge Region of Georgia known for?
What is its rugged beauty.
400
Georgia had become a royal colony about two years before this very important event. What was it?
What is the French/Indian War.
400
What types of art were used to depict and describe the many events of the American Revolution to the people?
What is cartoons. (Art of Politics)
400
The President elected to be over the United States of America i nthe early 1800s was an abolitionist.
What is Abraham Lincoln.
400
What was the result of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, VA?
What is the abolition of slavery.
500
What are the seven wonders of Georgia?
What is Okefenokee Swamp, Tallulah Gorge, Radium Springs, Warm Springs, Stone Mountain, Providence Canyon, and Amicola Falls.
500
When Georgians began to react to Great Britain's taxes on tea, paper, glass, etc., what Act was enacted on Great Britain and what year?
What is the Townshend Actos of 1767.
500
What occurred in Georgia after the American Revolution ended?
What is creation of a new government.
500
The Fugitive Slave Law was created to...
What is require the return of runaway slaves to their owners.
500
What was the period of expansion in the U.S. called around the early 1800s?
What is the Antebellum Era.