1. Trasketball Review

2. Name the prehistoric cultures in order
Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian (moved from a nomadic lifestyle to growing their own food)

3. What three cities are located on the fall line
Columbus, Macon, Augusta

4. Name the 5 regions of Georgia
Piedmont, Coastal, Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, Appalachian Plateau

5. What economy could climate affect in Georgia?
Agriculture can be affect by droughts, tornados, hurricanes, storms, blizzards

6. What is the capital of Georgia
Atlanta

7. What region is the Okefenokee Swamp located in?
Coastal

8. What is Ft. King George?
First British fort established in Georgia to help for defense purposes against Spanish and Native Americans

9. Why is Yamacraw Bluff an ideal spot?
This is where Oglethorpe first encountered Tomochichi, Bluff are ideal so that you can see your enemies coming ahead of time.

10. What was the first city created in Georgia?
Savannah

11. What was the war called between British and French?
French and Indian war

12. What was the French and Indian War about?
Fight over the Ohio River Valley

13. What was created after the French and Indian war?
The proclamation of 1763

14. What was the Proclamation about? (2 things)
No expanding west of the Appalachian mountains and the colonist have to pay taxes

15. Who fought in the American Revolution?
British vs. Colonists

16. Why did the American Revolution happen?
Colonist wanted their freedom from Great Britain

17. What came in response to the Boston Tea Party?
The Intolerable Acts

18. Name some things loyalist participated in?
They favored the acts, they favored, rules and restrictions, anything that supported great Britain

19. Name some things patriots participated in.
Anything that rebelled against Great Britain or was against unifying the two territories

20. The colony of Georgia was patriot or loyalist? Why?
Loyalist, because they were still a baby colony that relied on funding and food from Great Britain and did not want to make them mad by going against them

21. What is the significance behind the Boston Massacre?
Helped spread propaganda among the colonies to get all the colonist to turn against Great Britain and their soldiers

22. Who fought in the battle of Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke was the general and Austin Dabney saved his life during the battle.

23. Was the Battle of Kettle Creek a loss or a win?
Win, helped the soldier of Georgia feel like they could win the American Revolution and helped to resupply things needed in order to continue fighting.

24. Name 2 Intolerable Acts Closed Boston Harbor
Banned town meetings and had to have british soldiers at any colonist event also had restrictions for curfew

25. Name the other two intolerable acts
British soldiers tried in Great Britain for any crime committed
Quartering act where colonist had to house and feed British soldiers

26. Who signed the Declaration of Independence from Georgia?
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

27. Who signed Georgia’s constitution?
William Few, Abraham Baldwin

28. Why did the Royal period want to limit the Governor’s control
They didn’t want one person having all the power, wanted the people to have a say.

29. Who was Nancy Hart?
Patriot who killed loyalist/British soldier, only female to have a county named after her in Georgia.

30. What was the first form of Government in the United States?
Articles of Confederation

31. What was wrong with the Articles of Confederation?
Gave too much powers to the states and not enough power to the federal government

32. What does the Executive branch do?
Enforce the laws

33. Who is in charge of Executive branch
Governor and then Lt. governor

34. What does Legislative Branch do?
Make the laws

35. Who is a part of the Legislative branch
General Assembly is made up of the Senate and the House of Repersentatives

36. Who makes up the House of Representative and Senate?
General Assembly

37. What does the Judicial branch do?
Enforces the laws

38. What is check and balances?
Making sure that one branch does not have all the power and balances everything out among the three branches

39. What is separation of powers?
That each branch has a specific role that they do. That way one branch is not doing two jobs and overlapping another branch

40. How does a bill become a law (3 ways)
Governor vetos- then General Assembly can override it with a 2/3 vote
Governor ignores the bill (pocket veto) it then becomes a law
Signs it

41. Bills came be proposed by who?
Citizens, anyone can propose a bill to their senate/ house of representative member

42. If the governor dies who is next in command?
Lt. Governor

43. If Lt. Governor dies who is the next in command?
Speaker of House

44. What are committees for?
To review, research, and debate bills. If they like a bill it will continue through the process to be voted on. If they do not like a bill it will die/end in committees

45. What is westward expansion?
Manifest destiny, expanding westward from coast to coast. Was able to happen with the expansion of railroads

46. How could we see westward expansion in Georgia?
Shifting of the capitals and people moving westward to find more jobs and build more towns. More land to expand into

47. What helped with the growth of westward expansion?
Railroads

48. What did the cotton gin do?
Increased production of cotton and increased slavery

49. Who created the Syllabary?
Sequoyah

50. What is significant about the Cherokee Nation
They were declared a sovereign nation and tried to copy the whites’ culture

51. What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?
Where land companies tried to bride the Georgia government for land but was unsuccessful because Georgia sold the land to the United States where they created the states of Alabama and Mississippi

52. What was significant about Worcester vs. Georgia?
John Marshall declared the tribe a sovereign nation and could not be touched. Andrew Jackson thought otherwise and had them removed during trail of tears

53. What was significant about Dred Scott?
Supreme Court ruled they could not restrict slavery and that Dred Scott would remain a slave and a piece of property

54. What are the three things behind the Missouri Compromise?
Temporary solution to slavery
Main free state
Missouri slave state
36’30 line to solve slavery issue

55. What is secession?
To leave something (south breaking away from the United states)

56. What is the Georgia Platform?
Argued if they wanted to stay a part of the United States. Alexander Stephens helped they not secede and accept the Compromise of 1850 by adding the fugitive slave act

57. What is Nullification?
To ignore federal law especially when dealing with taxes

58. What are the three things behind the Charter of 1732
Charity economy defense

59. What is the stamp act?
Tax on all paper good

60. What is Mercantilism
Prosper through trade (colonist could only trade with great Britain) they harvest raw materials sold that to Great Britain where they turned the raw materials into manufactured goods and sold them for a higher price back to the colonist