2025 1st Semester Review

What European Country was the 1st to Explore AND Live in Georgia?

• Spain

• England

• France

Which Georgia city was the 4th state capitol? Hint --> SALMA

• Macon

• Milledgeville

• Augusta

• Louisville

What land distribution system FOLLOWED the Headright system?

• Land Lottery

• Headright

• Land Rush

• Yazoo Giveaway

The belief that a states are superior and can choose what federal laws it wants to obey.

• State Rights

• Constitutional Law

• Nullification Doctrine

• Superior Doctrine

This Law:

1. 1. Admitted California as a free state

2. 2. Ended the slave trade in Washington DC,

3. 3. Included the Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-California Act

In the Dred Scott Case, the US Supreme Court ruled that:

• The Fugitive Slave Act was abolished.

• Slaves in free states were free.

• Slaves were property, and slavery was legal.

• Slavery was abolished.

What event led pushed Georgia and other southern states over the edge and sparked the creation of the Confederates States of America?

• Fighting in Kansas between slave and free settlers

• Dred Scott Decision

• Election of 1860 (Lincoln Won)

• Compromise of 1850

The French and Indian War caused Great Britain to do these TWO things to the Colonies ..... (Choose TWO)

• Impose Taxes

• Restrict Where They Live (Proc of 1763)

• Attack Them Near Boston.

• Abolish all Slavery and Servanthood.

Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton .....

• Primary authors of the Constitution of the United States.

• Three Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence.

• The primary authors of the GA's first Constitution.

• They all signed the treaty of paris.

One-fourth of the Cherokee population died on their forced journey to Oklahoma. This event came to be known as ...

• The Sand Creek Massacre.

• The defeat at Little Big Horn.

• The Trail of Tears.

• The Battle of Wounded Knee.