Colonial Cash
(Goods & Services)
(Goods & Services)
The acronym "W.R.I.S.T." is used to remember the main agricultural goods produced in colonial Georgia. Name two of the crops that make up this acronym.
What is Wine, Rice, Indigo, Silk, or Tobacco?
During the Revolutionary War, Georgians who wanted independence were called ______, while those who remained faithful to King George III were called ______.
Patriots; Loyalists (or Tories).
Before heading to Washington D.C., Jimmy Carter served as the highest executive officer in Georgia from 1971 to 1975. What was his title?
What is the Governor?
Because of aggressive state tax credits, diverse locations, and mild weather, Georgia has earned the nickname "The Hollywood of the South" due to the explosion of this industry.
The Film and Television Industry.
Passed after Reconstruction, these state and local laws mandated the racial segregation of public facilities, severely restricting the rights of African Americans.
What is Jim Crow Laws
Because the colony couldn't grow everything it needed, colonists traded these goods, harvested from the massive pine forests of Georgia, which were used to build and waterproof British ships.
What are Timber / Naval Stores (pitch, tar, rosin)?
This 1779 battle was a massive victory for the Patriot militia in Georgia. It boosted morale and allowed them to capture badly needed weapons and horses from the British.
What is the Battle of Kettle Creek?
Jimmy Carter's political career began in the Georgia General Assembly when he was elected to serve in this specific legislative role in 1962.
What is a State Senator?
From the Georgia Aquarium to the Appalachian Mountains, this industry brings in billions of dollars and employs over 400,000 Georgians who provide hospitality and entertainment to visitors.
What is Tourism?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the white primary were all methods used in Georgia to achieve this—the denial of a person's right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
This was the primary service that the Trustees intended for the Georgia colony to provide to South Carolina regarding the Spanish in Florida.
What is to act as a "buffer" or military defense?
In this bloody encounter, a joint force of French and Patriot troops tried for weeks to retake Georgia’s capital city from the British, but ultimately failed and suffered heavy casualties.
What is the Siege of Savannah?
After serving as the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter took on the role of "Past President." Name one major accomplishment or focus of his post-presidency.
What is Winning the Nobel Peace Prize, founding the Carter Center, fighting diseases (like Guinea worm), monitoring global elections, or building homes with Habitat for Humanity?
This massive, multi-year infrastructure project deepened a major waterway on Georgia's coast, allowing massive "Post-Panamax" cargo ships to bring goods in and out of the state, boosting global trade.
What is The Savannah Port Expansion (or Savannah Harbor Expansion Project/SHEP)?
Fueled by false newspaper reports of violence, white mobs roamed the streets of Georgia's capital for days in this tragic 1906 event, resulting in property destruction and the deaths of dozens of African Americans.
What is The 1906 Atlanta Riot?
Leo Frank was the superintendent of a pencil factory in Atlanta who was accused and convicted of murdering a 13-year-old worker named Mary Phagan. What was Leo Frank's religious background, which made him a target of prejudice?
What is Jewish?
The intense hatred and discrimination directed at Leo Frank during his trial are a primary example of this specific type of prejudice.
What is Anti-Semitism?
After the Governor of Georgia commuted Leo Frank's death sentence to life in prison, a mob calling themselves the "Knights of Mary Phagan" broke into the prison, kidnapped Frank, and did this to him, demonstrating a violent resistance to equality and due process.
What is They lynched him.
This 1896 Supreme Court ruling claimed that segregation was constitutional as long as facilities were "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson.