Milestones Practice Test, Part 2

Which of the following groups 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. 

• Highland Scots
• Malcontents 
• Salzburgers 
• Puritans 

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

• debt from financing the war led to taxes on the colonists
• the British defeat meant France would own more land in America
• King George used the French to spy on the colonist's meetings
• Britain signed a treaty with the French that angered the colonists

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

• Mayflower Compact
• Articles of Confederation
• U.S. Constitution
• Declaration of Independence

The Proclamation of 1763 forbade the colonists from settling where?

• South of the Mason-Dixon line 
• West of the Appalachian Mts
• In Florida
• In Canada

During the American Revolution, what city in Georgia quickly fell to the British?

• Augusta
• Savannah
• Athens 
• Milledgeville

Which of these accurately reflects a WEAKNESS in the Articles of Confederation?

• 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.

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

• Georgia State University
• The University of Georgia
• Georgia Southern University
• The Georgia Institute of Technology

Which is the correct order of Georgia's capitals?

• Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta, Milledgeville, Louisville
• Augusta, Savannah, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
• Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
• Louisville, Savannah, Augusta, Milledgeville, Atlanta

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

• Worcester v Georgia
• Troup v U.S.
• Brown v Board of Education
• Plessey v Ferguson

 What group of three men supported the New South movement and dominated Georgia politics in the late 1800’s?  

• Bourbon Triumvirate
• Atlanta Triumvirate
• Populist Party
• Farmers Alliance