3-30-22

What was one purpose of the founding of Georgia?

• to establish bases to expand the fur trade

• to learn about the culture of the native people

• to provide military protection for other colonies

• to establish places to practice religious freedom

This region of Georgia contains the highest elevation in the state. This area also receives the most rainfall of any of the regions.

• Coastal Plain

• Blue Ridge

• Appalachian Plataue

• Valley and Ridge

A production company is considering filming a movie in Georgia. Which statement would probably be MOST persuasive in convincing the company to film in Georgia?

• Georgia’s rivers provide recreational opportunities for production companies.

• Georgia’s many hotels and restaurants are available to serve production companies.

• Georgia’s state and local governments offer financial incentives to production companies

• Georgia’s unemployed people are available for temporary work with production companies.

In which region of Georgia is the Okefenokee Swamp located?

• Piedmont

• Coastal Plain

• Blue Ridge

• Ridge and Valley

The controversial sale of land by the governor of Georgia and the state’s legislature during the mid-1790s. Tracts of land in what would become Mississippi and Alabama were sold cheaply to political supporters. Though reformers later passed a law nullifying the sales, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the law.

• Yazoo Land Fraud

• Siege of Savannah

• Mississippi Burning

• Louiseville

Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton

• Signers of the Declaration of Independence

• Georgia Signers of the Articles of Confederation

• Georgia Signers of the Declaration of Independence

A small town in southwest Georgia known for its Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.

• Augusta

• Savannah

• Andersonville

• Sparta

A slave who, on the basis of having lived in free states, sued for his freedom in federal court. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately decided that, as “property,” he had no right to sue. The court also declared parts of the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because they deprived slave owners of their property.

• Natt Turner

• Dred Scott

• John Walton

• Fredrick Douglas

: The name of a war fought in the United States between the Northern industrial states and the Southern agricultural states (which had seceded over the issue of slavery and states’ rights). It lasted from 1861 to 1865.

• The French and Indian War

• American Revolution

• The Civil War

• Spanish American War

Even within the Southern states, there was much debate over whether leaving the Union was constitutional. Ultimately, Georgia voted to secede

• State's Rights

• The debate over seccession

• nullification

• Annaconda Plan