Unit 1
How the earth is divided N/S/E/W.
What is hemisphere?
Religious settlements run by Catholic priests and friars.
What are missions?
(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.
What is the French and Indian War?
land allocation approach that gave the average Georgian a chance to buy land at pennies on the dollar.
What is the Land Lottery?
A war between factions or regions within a country.
What is the Civil War?
Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees.
What is longitude?
One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit.
What is colonization?
1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.
What is the Stamp Act?
First Land Grant University (Land donated by government) in the United States of America Chartered in 1785 First President was Abraham Baldwin (wanted UGA to be the "YALE of the South".
What is the University of Georgia?
Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.
What is Sectionalism?
Georgia's smallest region located in the northeastern corner of the state.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
Waterways, paths, and trails that traders used to move goods for exchange from one place to another.
What is trade routes?
A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793.
What is a Cotton Gin?
Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property, affirmed that property cannot be interfered with by Congress, slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or states, fueled abolitionist movement, hailed as victory for the south.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
One of the busiest passenger airports in the world. Named after William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson.
What is the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airports?
A person who owes money.
What is a debtor?
American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won.
Who are the Patriots?
Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century.
What are Railroads?
1854 - anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free Soilers and reformers from the Northwest met and formed party in order to keep slavery out of the territories.
What is the Republican Party?
Native to a country, not foreign; relating to the life or affairs of a household; a household servant.
What is domestic?
A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.
What is Slavery?
A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies.
Who are the Militia?
The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
ended slavery, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?