2017 Georgia Studies Final Exam Study Guide

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2017 GEORGIA STUDIES FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

GEOGRAPHY (workbook 152-167)

1.  Which of Georgia’s physiographic regions occupies the largest land area in the state? Which states touch Georgia’s borders?

2.  Cities located on Georgia’s Fall Line? Which regions of the state are separated by Georgia’s Fall Line?

3.  Most of Georgia’s major agricultural products, including peanuts and Vidalia onions, are grown in which region?

4.  Describe how the barrier islands protect the mainland?

NATIVES & EXPLORERS (workbook 13-22)

5.  The first permanent English settlement in the New World was at:

6.  What countries were major colonizers of the New World?

7.  The first Spanish settlement in what would become part of the United States was at:

8.  The trade policy of Great Britain with her colonies was called?

9.  Know the groups of people that were among the earliest Georgia settlers.

GEORGIA COLONIZATION (workbook 22-37)

10.  Georgia’s first settlement was made near the present city of?

11.  What were reasons that Oglethorpe wanted to form the colony of Georgia?

12.  Georgia’s Charter of 1732 included what types of provisions?

13.  Where did Oglethorpe and the first Georgia colonists land when they arrived in Georgia?

14.  Name the term that BEST describes the kind of people Oglethorpe and his associates wanted to bring to Georgia?

15.  When did Georgia become a royal colony?

AMERICAN REVOLUTION (workbook 39-52)

16.  How the French and Indian War led to America’s Revolutionary War?

17.  Why was anti-British sentiment less in Georgia than in the other colonies during the revolutionary period?

18.  The primary author of the United States’ Declaration of Independence was?

19.  Which of the colonies were the oldest and the youngest?

20.  What was the main type of colony established in America?

21.  What natural border did the Proclamation Line of 1763 follow?

22.  The ______of 1773 resulted in a group of Patriots dressing as Mohawk Indians and tossing 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

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

24.  Who represented Georgia at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

25.  What was the major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

WESTWARD EXPANSION (workbook 52-70)

26.  What was the purpose of the headright system?

27.  The Yazoo Land Fraud…

28.  The original names for Atlanta were?

29.  The most important mechanical invention to affect Georgia’s economy in early 1800’s was?

30.  Sequoyah’s major contribution to Cherokee culture was?

31.  What discovery led to the final Indian removal from Georgia?

32.  The Cherokee nickname for their forced removal from Georgia was?

33.  What land acquisition allowed the U.S. to obtain the most new land?

34.  The Great Awakening was a period of ______.

GOVERNMENT (workbook 168-197)

35.  The maximum number of consecutive years that a Georgia governor may serve as the state’s chief executive officer is?

36.  What are some of the informal powers of the Governor?

37.  Who is the current governor of Georgia?

38.  According to Georgia’s Constitution, all government originates from?

39.  If a person found guilty of a crime thinks that a mistake was made in their trial, they may take their case to?

40.  A judge says that a juvenile must spend 60 days in a youth development center. This judgment would have taken place during what step in the Juvenile Justice system?

41.  How do the courts in Georgia differ from the legislative and executive branches?

42.  In a criminal case, who files the charges?

43.  Why were juvenile courts created?

44.  How many votes are needed to pass a bill in the full house?

45.  The presiding officer of the Georgia Senate is?

46.  The government of Georgia is based on what written document?

47.  In Georgia, the separation of power refers to the division of power between?

48.  To vote in Georgia you must be how old?

CIVIL WAR (workbook 70-86)

49.  Name the amendment making slavery illegal in the United States.

50.  One who farmed land he did not own with his own equipment and animals is called a?

51.  Who was the Union President elected in 1860?

52.  Where was the Confederate POW camp located in Georgia?

53.  The Freedman’s Bureau was created to do what?

54.  The plan to rebuild the South and restore it to the Union was known as______.

55.  What are some fundamental causes of the Civil War?

56.  What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

RECONSTRUCTION & NEW SOUTH (workbook 87-108)

57.  Name the man that was wrongly accused of murdering Mary Phagan and lynched.

58.  Name the 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal” train cars and opened the door for even more Jim Crow laws.

59.  This organization grew out of the Niagara Movement of 1909 and stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. What is the acronym?

60.  A ______stated that only those men whose fathers or grandfathers had been eligible to vote in 1867 were eligible to vote.

61.  Name the man that believed that African Americans could not accept second-class status and should fight for equality through political action. W.E.B. Dubois or Booker T. Washington.

62.  He is known for writing the phrase “new south”, and later becoming editor of the Atlanta Constitution.

63.  A group of three men committed to strong economic ties with the industrial north. (Joseph Brown, Alfred Colquitt and John Gordon).

64.  He believed that by working hard, saving money, and becoming important to the local economies African Americans could earn the respect of whites. (W.E.B. Dubois or Booker T. Washington.)

WORLD WAR I, GREAT DEPRESSION, NEW DEAL, WORLD WAR II (workbook 108-124)

65.  Why was WWI so large if it only started as a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia?

66.  The policy of remaining removed from international diplomacy was called ______.

67.  Name the term describes the belief that economic problems can work themselves out in the marketplace without government help or controls?

68.  Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt spend so much time in Georgia?

69.  What are some underlying reasons for the beginning of WWI in Europe?

70.  What were two factors that caused GEORGIA to fall into an economic depression?

71.  Why did the United States start a Lend-lease system of war equipment in WWII?

72.  The day the nation’s stock market “crashed,” plunging the country into a depression is referred to as______.

73.  The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was created by Roosevelt to?

74.  The Great Migration occurred when African-Americans left what part of the country? Where did they move to?

75.  The New Deal programs were intended to?

76.  The basic wage that workers can be paid per hour is called ______.

77.  The overall program of economic improvement that FDR instated was called the______.

78.  Who was president of the United States when the nation fell into the Great Depression in 1929?

79.  The B-29 bombers were built in Georgia at the______.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT & MODERN GEORGIA (workbook 125-151)

80.  How did participants of the SNCC voice their opinions during the Civil Rights movement?

81.  Why was the Sibley Commission formed?

82.  Name the men who claimed to be governor during Georgia’s infamous “Three Governors Episode”?

83.  What Civil Rights approach did Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.’s use to gain equality and civil rights for all citizens?

84.  What was the purpose of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?

85.  What was the main focus of Georgia’s Albany Movement?

86.  Which method of influencing political decision-making led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

87.  Jimmy Carter’s accomplishments as PRESIDENT included______.