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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
Feeling Lucky
100
There are ten amendments in this part of the U.S Constitution
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
State at least two conditions/provisions of the Missouri Compromise
What are Maine became a free state, Missouri became a slave state, slavery prohibited in Louisiana territory, and/or the 36'30' parallel line was established abolishing slavery north of the line.
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
This means loyalty to the concerns of your own region or section of a country rather than the nation
What is sectionalism
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
In the Inner Coastal Plains, what is the swamp located in it
What is Okefenokee
400
The Dred Scott decision was a landmark decision in the U.S. because in effect it stated...
What is that slavery was legal even in the north; slavery is legal everywhere
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 that replaced the headright system in Georgia and eventually led to the Yazoo Land Fraud
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 Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in violent clashes between border ruffians and abolitionists mainly because elections in Kansas were open to...
What is anyone who moved there, creating a rush of people trying to move to the state to sway the vote in their favor
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