Georgia Studies Benchmark Review

What Georgian signed the Declaration of Independence?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Baldwin
• Button Gwinnett
• William Few

Who was the Georgian who helped bring about the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention?

• Abraham Baldwin
• Lyman Hall
• William Sherman
• John Ross

What items did Oglethorpe promise the colonists would produce in the Georgia Colony?

• rice, cotton, tobacco
• wine, indigo, silk
• cloth, ammunition, cotton
• peanuts, peaches cotton

What was the main purpose of the Spanish missions?

• claim land for Spain
• establish trade with Spain
• convert the Natives to Catholicism (Christianity)
• provide protection to the colonists

The following region was home to many cotton plantations because of the fertile red clay

• Piedmont
• Coastal Plains
• Appalachian Plateau
• Blue Ridge

What conflict led to the American Revolution because it left Great Britain in debt and resulted in increased taxes?

• Proclamation of 1763
• Stamp Act
• Intolerable Acts
• French and Indian War

During which prehistoric time period would you find the mound builders?

• Paleo
• Archaic
• Woodland
• Mississippian

Which statement correctly describes the Mississippian Indian's shelter?

• Temporary huts that were easy to move

• Large permanent settlements set up around farms

• Usually caves located along a trade route

• No shelters were used as they were nomads

Which is the best description of Mississippian Indian family life?

• Usually small immediate family of parents and their children

• Small band of nomads with no clear leader

• Loose band of unorganized tribes

• Large Chiefdoms engaged in trade with people near them

Which of the following is NOT a country that competed for land in the New World?

• Germany

• France

• England

• Spain