1.What Was a Result of the French and Indian War As It Pertained to Georgia?

Revolution Review

1.What was a result of the French and Indian war as it pertained to Georgia?

2. Why was the Colony of Georgia reluctant to join the Revolutionary War at first?

3. How did the French and the British compare as the French and Indian War began?

4. What effect did the French and Indian War have on Georgia’s growth and development?

5. During the French and Indian War, Why did most of the Native American Tribes side with the French?

6. What two countries were involved in negotiations that ended the French and Indian War?

7. What did Georgia gain from the French and Indian War?

8. How did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?

9. What law forbade colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?

10. What became Georgia’s Southern boundary after the Proclamation of 1763?

11. Which British policy had the greatest effect on Georgia?

12. What were the Intolerable Acts?

13. What was the behavior of most Georgians during the Revolutionary War?

14. What was the actions taken by the British called?

15. For which reasons did Georgians remain loyal to Great Britain?

16. What is the opening of the Declaration of Independence called?

17. Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

18. What was included in the middle part of the Declaration of Independence?

19. What was included in the third part of the Declaration of Independence?

20. Most of the fighting in Georgia during the American Revolution was fought between whom?

21. Who supported most of the British acts?

22. Where did the first colonial victory in Georgia during the American Revolution occur?

23. Who was the leader of the militia near Washington, Georgia, and led the forces at the Battle of Kettle Creek?

24. What was the importance of the Battle of Kettle Creek?

25. Who was the black soldier who was seriously wounded at the Battle of Kettle Creek?

26. Which military leader commanded the most troops at the Battle of Kettle Creek?

27. What obstacle separated Pickens and Boyd and had to be crossed for the battle to begin?

28. What did Austin Dabney receive from the State of Georgia in 1821?

29. Who was the famous female Georgia Patriot famous for capturing and killing a group of Tories during the Revolution?

30. Who were the Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence?

31. Who was the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

32. How could Georgia’s support of the Revolutionary War effort be described?

33. When did the Colonies gain Independence from Great Britain?

34. Who was the foreign patriot who died during the Siege of Savannah?

35. What was the MOST significant result of the Siege of Savannah?

36. Name the major battles of the Revolution that occurred in Georgia.

37. What was the main weakness of the Georgia Constitution of 1777?

38. Who selected the governors in Georgia based on the Constitution of 1777?

39. Why did the writers of Georgia’s first constitution want to limit the powers of the governor?

40. Who was Georgia’s first governor under the Constitution of 1777?

41. What was the first written plan for the United States called?

42. What was its weakness?

43. What did it include? (Offices)

44. Why were government leaders hesitant to change the Articles of

Confederation?

45. Why did they want a federal government with little power?

46. What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787?

47. Who were the two signers of the U.S. Constitution from Georgia?

48. How many states ratified the U.S. Constitution before Georgia?

49. What was the initial purpose in calling the Philadelphia Convention of 1787?

50. How did Georgia respond to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution?

Answer Key:

1. Georgia gained new territory as a result of the war.

2. They were financially dependent on Great Britain

3. The French had a number of alliances with the Indians, but the British had a larger number of troops.

4. Georgia gained new Lands, new water access for shipping, ample farmland, and rich forest with timber and navel stores.

5. The Indians were trading partners with the French.

6. France and Great Britain.

7. Georgia gained land, navel stores and timber, farm acreage, and new settlers.

8. To get money to repay war debts, Great Britain taxed the colonies on the premise that the war had been necessary to protect the colonies from the French.

9. Proclamation of 1763.

10. St. Mary’s River

11. The British passed the Stamp Act adding a tax on newspapers and licenses.

12. The British required citizens in Boston to pay additional taxes to pay for damage during the Boston Tea Party.

13. Loyalty to the King.

14. Intolerable Acts.

15. Georgia was far younger as a colony than the other colonies and it still needed much support from Great Britain.

16. Preamble

17. Thomas Jefferson

18. A list of grievances against the King.

19. A statement about separation from Great Britain.

20. Georgia Patriots and Loyalists

21. Patriots

22. Kettle Creek

23. Elijah Clarke

24. The colonists took needed weapons and horses from the British.

25. Austin Dabney

26. Colonel Boyd

27. Fence and fallen trees

28. 50 acres of land in Washington County.

29. Nancy Hart

30. George Walton, Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett

31. George Walton

32. Led by Savannah and the upcountry Revolutionary leaders.

33. 1776

34. Casimir Pulaski

35. The city of Savannah remained in British hands.

36. Ebenezer

37. It gave too much power to the legislative branch.

38. The Legislature

39. They feared the governor would become a dictator.

40. John Treutlen

41. Articles of Confederation

42. Thirteen states not becoming a unified nation.

43. Legislature

44. They were afraid people would panic

45. They had freed themselves from the domination of a strong, powerful government in Great Britain.

46. Revise the Articles of Confederation

47. Abraham Baldwin

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49. Established a stronger federal government.

50 It approved quickly as the Fourth State to enter the Union.