Georgia History

2nd Semester Study Guide

American Revolution

  1. How did the following two events impact Georgia:
  2. The French and Indian War
  • Proclamation of 1763
  1. How did the French and Indian War lead to the Revolutionary War?
  1. What was Georgia’s natural border after the Proclamation of 1763?
  1. What did the Proclamation of 1763 accomplish?
  1. Identify and define the following people and events:
  2. James Wright
  • Austin Dabney
  • Nancy Hart
  • Elijah Clarke
  • Button Gwinnett
  • Lyman Hall
  • George Walton
  • Tories
  • Patriots
  • Siege of Savannah
  • Why significant?
  • Which famous people were involved?
  • Battle of Kettle Creek
  • Why was it significant?
  • Which famous people were involved?
  1. Describe Georgia’s relationship with Great Britain during this time period.
  1. Why was the Declaration of Independence written? What did it explain to Great Britain?
  1. Which act affected Georgia the most?
  1. What were the provisions of the Intolerable Acts?

Articles of Confederation, Georgia Constitution of 1777, and Georgia at the Constitutional Convention

  1. Identify and Define the following people in relation to the time period:
  2. William Few
  • Abraham Baldwin
  • John Treutlen
  1. What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
  1. What rights were guaranteed under the Georgia Constitution of 1777 and 1789?
  1. Georgia was the ___th state to ratify the constitution.
  1. How did Georgia respond the ratification of the U.S. Constitution? Why did they respond that way?

Westward Expansion Period

  1. Explain the Yazoo Land Fraud. Where were the documents burned?
  1. What historical claim can the University of Georgia make?
  1. Name the capitols of Georgia in order.
  1. Why did the capitol of Georgia move so many times?
  1. Explain Eli Whitney’s invention and how it influenced the growth of slavery in the South.
  1. What was the chief cash crop of Georgia before the Civil War?
  1. Which mode of transportation was developing in Georgia just before the Civil War which was very important to Georgia’s war effort and post-war economic development?
  1. What was the original name for Atlanta and why was it called that?
  1. What discovery led to the Cherokee losing their land in Georgia?
  1. What was a syllabary and who invented it?
  1. Who signed the Treaty of Indian Springs? What happened to him?
  1. What was the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Cherokee territory was not subject to state law?

Civil War

  1. Explain the meaning of the term Antebellum.
  1. What were states’ rights and why was it important to the South?
  1. What is secession and why did Georgia plantation owners favor it? Why did they feel that they had the legal right to secede from the Union?
  1. What was the Missouri Compromise and what was its purpose?
  1. What was the Compromise of 1850 and what was its purpose?
  1. What does the term “popular sovereignty” mean?
  1. Explain the Dred Scott case (include the outcome).
  1. Explain the Georgia Platform. Who were the leaders involved?
  1. Describe the importance of the following people:
  • Alexander Stephens
  • Robert E. Lee
  • William T. Sherman
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Abraham Lincoln
  1. How did Lincoln’s election in 1860 impact Georgia?
  1. Explain the importance of the following battles:
  2. Antietam
  • Gettysburg
  • Chickamauga
  • Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign
  • Sherman’s March to the Sea

Reconstruction and the New South

  1. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
  1. What rights did the following amendments give?
  2. 13th Amendment
  • 14th Amendment
  • 15th Amendment
  1. Describe the Ku Klux Klan and their activity after the Civil War.
  1. What was the “New South”?
  1. Explain the importance of the following Civil Rights Activists:
  2. W. E. B. DuBois
  1. Alonzo Herndon
  1. Booker T. Washington
  1. Explain the term Jim Crow Laws?
  1. What was the main purpose of the International Cotton Exposition that was held in Atlanta?
  1. Explain the importance of the following people:
  2. Henry Grady
  • Tom Watson
  • Leo Frank

World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II

  1. What two events occurred causing Georgia’s economy to be weakened long before the beginning of the Great Depression?
  1. During World War I, what country did Germany urge to attack the United States in the Zimmerman telegram?
  1. How did Georgians supported World War I?
  1. What evidence best expresses the fallacy of the following statement: “World War I made the world safe for democracy”?
  1. Why did Georgians not feel the impact of the stock market crash of 1929?
  1. Describe the history of Eugene Talmadge as governor.
  1. What mistake cost Eugene Talmadge the election of 1936?
  1. What was the “New Deal” and what was its primary aim?

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  1. What New Deal program resulted from President Franklin Roosevelt’s view of rural Georgia while sitting on his porch in the evening?
  1. What was the purpose of social security?
  1. Why did the United States enter World War II?
  1. Explain the importance of the Bell Aircraft Marietta plant and what it is known as today.
  1. What were the Liberty ships of WWII?
  1. Explain the Holocaust and use of concentration camps during WWII.
  1. Why did Franklin Roosevelt spend so much time in Georgia?

Modern Georgia

  1. After WWII, what was one of Georgia’s most important agricultural products?
  1. What was the issue for which William Hartsfield is best remembered?
  1. Explain the controversy surrounding the 1946 election for governor.
  1. What was the controversy involving the Georgia flag of 1956?
  1. Explain the importance of the March on Washington in 1963. Who was involved? Why did they do it? What famous speech was given?
  1. Explain the importance of Brown v. the Board of Education.
  1. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and what did it do?
  1. What challenge did Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter face in 1961?
  1. Explain the importance of the following people:
  1. Lester Maddox
  2. Andrew Young
  1. John Lewis
  1. Maynard Jackson
  1. Jimmy Carter
  1. Sonny Perdue
  1. Explain the importance of the 1996 Olympics on the economy of Georgia.
  1. Define entrepreneur.

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Home Depot
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