Fall Final Exam study guide
1)Which river flows along the eastern border of GA?
2)Who were the Liberty boys?
3)What is federalism?
4)What was the Trail of Tears?
5)Which region of GA has the largest population?
6)Know the chronological order of the cultural periods.
7)Why do people and businesses move to GA?
8)Know which states and physical features border GA.
9)What were the Bill of Rights?
10)What is the fall line?
11)Who held the most power under the articles of confederation?
12)Why did the founding fathers develop the checks and balances system?
13)Who is the “Father of the Constitution”?
14)What is Brasstown Bald?
15)What was mercantilism?
16)Who was Dr. Sam Nunis?
17)What cities does the Chattahoochee River flow through?
18)What did the Proclamation of 1763 make a natural boundary?
19)Who was Oglethorpe’s interpreter?
20)Which body of water most affects the weather of GA?
21)What was the Bering Strait used for in prehistoric times?
22)What is an archeologist?
23)What is a geologist?
24)What is a paleontologist?
25)What did the Great compromise decide?
26)In the original charter of GA, who could NOT become citizens?
27)Who created the first written Native American language?
28)What were the main cash crops of the colonial period?
29)Which cultural period is known as the Temple Mound period?
30)What disease caused the deaths of 90% of the Native Americans?
31)What product made Jamestown colony profitable?
32)In what year were the first slave sold in North America?
33)How many debtors were released from prison to come to Georgia?
34)What were the three reasons for founding Georgia as a colony?
35)Which branch of government enforces the law?
36)What is a citizen army called?
37)What was the main effect of the French and Indian War on GA?
38)Which branch of governments makes the laws?
39)Which group of people helped Oglethorpe defeat the Spanish at Bloody Marsh?
40)Which Georgians signed the Declaration of Independence?
41)Who were the two largest Indian tribes in GA?
42)Where was GA’s only significant Revolutionary War battle victory?
43)Who were the Tories?
44)What was the Boston Massacre?
45)Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
46)Who was Tomochichi?
47)Who was Nancy Hart?
48)What quote was Patrick Henry famous for saying?
49)Which European countries main interest in North America was fur?
50)What was the cotton gin?
51)What war left Great Britain with a huge war debt?
52)What was Laisse Faire?
53)Which Indian culture first built permanent villages?
54)What became Georgia’s western border after the French and Indian war?
55)According to the Declaration of Independence, what three rights were all people born with?
56)What was Terminus?
57)Who were the Hessians?
58)What was the first government of the United States called?
59)What did Thomas Paine write?
60)Which European country supported the colonies and made their victory possible?
61)What were the intolerable acts?
62)What was the main weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
63)Which culture used Clovis points?
64)How was a plantation owners wealth measured?
65)What determined the location of GA’s first cities?
66)What led to the removal of the Cherokee from GA?
67)What percentage of Georgia families owned slaves in 1860?
68)How did the price of cotton affect the price of slaves?