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Unit 3/4: Colonial Georgia and Am. Rev. and Constitution
Unit 5: Westward Expansion and Social Changes
Unit 1/2: Geography and Pre-History
Unit 6: Causes of the Civil War
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100

Article 1 of the constitution is called what?

What is the Bill of Rights

100
This is the President who's policies toward Native Americans is controversial
Who is Andrew Jackson
100
This region is the smallest of Georgia
What is Appalachian Plateau
100

A tariff on paper product in the colony.

What is the Stamp Act

100
This person founded the Georgia trustee colony
Who is James Oglethorpe
200
Button Gwinnett, George Walton, and Lyman Hall were significant during the American Revolution due to their contribution to this document
What is the Declaration of Independence
200
This is the name for the Native American removal from areas of the southeast to parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas
What is the Trail of Tears
200
This region is the most densely populated and contains the state capital
What is the Piedmont region
200
This event was started over southern states' reluctance to accept a tariff on imported British goods
What is the Nullification Crisis
200

Describe one benefit of creating a budget.

What is knowing where you spend your money (expenses) and saving for emergencies?

300
This was a significant Patriot victory in Georgia that won much-needed supplies and inspired more patriotic morale in the state
What is the Battle of Kettle Creek
300
This discovery in Georgia led to many white settlers encroaching upon Cherokee lands
What is gold
300
This is the name for the Native American peoples that inhabited Georgia at the time of European arrival
What is the Mississippian people
300
The addition of California to the union as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the idea of popular sovereignty are all associated with this document
What is the Compromise of 1850
300

This is an economic term that describes a system in which there is a limited amount of wealth in the world and therefore countries should seek to establish colonies in order to trade and amass the most wealth possible

What is mercantilism

400
Georgia was late in joining the colonies in their war against Great Britain and this was mainly because...
What is they were a younger colony and therefore more loyal to Britain
400
The public land-grant university that was founded in 1785 and was first among its type in the country.
What is the University of Georgia
400

Spanish explorer who search Georgia for Gold.

Who is Hernando DeSoto?

400

The Dred Scott decision was a landmark decision in the U.S. because in effect it stated...

What is Slaves were not legal citizens

400

This European nation was the first to establish colonies along Georgia's barrier islands in an effort to convert native people to Catholicism

What is Spain

500
No power to tax, no power to create a national army, and no executive leader were all weaknesses of the original document governing the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation
500

The land allocation system where individuals receive tickets in a barrel. Hint...Windows and soldiers received extra chances.

What is the land lottery system

500
This geographical features is located along Georgia's coast and serves as protection for the coast against hurricanes
What are the barrier islands
500

The 3rd Royal Governor of Georgia, whom the colonists liked, resulted in many Georgians remaining loyalists.

Who is James Wright?

500

This is the "final straw" for many southern states and prompts South Carolina to be the first state to seceded just one month following the event

What is the Election of 1860