Modern Georgia

U.S. Supreme Court case/decision that ruled that segregation to be unconstitutional (illegal); dealt with a group of young people trying to attend (and being denied the right to attend) an all white school in Topeka, Kansas.

• Dred Scott Case
• Plessy V. Ferguson 
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Leo Frank Case

He was elected the first African American mayor of Atlanta.

• Herman Talmadge

• Lester Maddox

• Maynard Jackson

• Andrew Young

This transportation system includes I-95, I-85, I-75, and I-20.

• Interstate Highways

• Deepwater Ports

• Railroads

• Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

This transportation system became important to Georgia in the 1800s.

• Interstate Highways

• Railroads

• Hartsfiled-Jackson International Airport

• Deepwater ports

This transportation system is located in Savannah and Brunswick. It relies on railroads and Interstate to bring goods to and from its ports.

• Harsfield-Jackson International Airport

• Railways

• Deepwater ports

• Interstate Highways

He succeeded Maynard Jackson to become the second African American mayor of Atlanta. He played a key role in bringing the 1996 Olympic Games to Atlanta.

• Lester Maddox

• Andrew Young

• Herman Talmadge

• Maynard Jackson

He became the first and only Georgian to win the Presidency.

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• Bill Clinton

• Donald Trump

Atlanta won the honor of hosting this in the summer of 1996.

• Sibley Commission

• 1996 Centennial Olympics

• Reapportionment

• County Unit System

This is the process of people moving to a country or state from somewhere else.

• Immigration

• County Unit System

• Iran Hostage Crisis

• Reapportionment

To what position did President Jimmy Carter appoint Andrew Young?

• ambassador to the United Nations

• president of South Africa

• secretary of housing and urban development

• secretary of the interior