Georgia Milestones Review Georgia Studies

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Which group settled in GA and founded the city of Ebenezer? This group was a Protestant group from Austria who was being persecuted by the Catholics of the country.

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Salzburgers

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What lasting effect of the French and Indian War helped lead to the American Revolution?

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debt from financing the war led to taxes on the colonists

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What document declared the colonists no longer wanted to be part of the British empire?

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Declaration of Independence

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The Proclamation of 1763 forbade the colonists from settling where? South of the Mason-Dixon line, In Florida, In Canada

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West of the Appalachian Mts

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During the American Revolution, what city in Georgia quickly fell to the British? Options: Augusta, Savannah, Athens, Milledgeville

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Savannah

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Which of these accurately reflects a WEAKNESS in the Articles of Confederation? Options: Congress taxed citizens too much., There was no separation of powers., The document was too easily amended by the states., The central government held too much power over the states.

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There was no separation of powers.

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Which Georgia institution is being described by these statements?
-chartered in 1785 by the Georgia General Assembly
-founded by Abraham Baldwin who also served as the university's first president
-the oldest public university in the nation
-the largest of the state's institutions of higher learning

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The University of Georgia

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Which is the correct order of Georgia's capitals? Options: Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta, Milledgeville, Louisville

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Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta

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Law that gave the President the power to make treaties with Native Americans exchanging their land for unsettled western land

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Indian Removal Act

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1832 Supreme Court case which ruled that Cherokee had federal protection from the actions of state governments. President Jackson did not enforce the ruling.

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Worcester v Georgia