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Worksheets8th Grade BM2 Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 55mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was Elijah Clarke?
a)
A war hero in the American Revolution, who fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek
b)
Signed the Declaration of Independence
c)
Started a mission on St. Catherines Island
d)
Helped create the House of Representatives
2.
Who was Austin Dabney?
a)
One of Georgia Royal Governors
b)
Helped spread the idea of the "New South"
c)
Slave who fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek; gained his freedom after the American Revolution
d)
Head of Georgia's Democratic Party in the 1960s
3.
Who was Nancy Hart?
a)
First female U.S. Senator
b)
Patriot spy; credited with killing British soldiers
c)
Secretary of Jimmy Carter
d)
Spokesperson for convincing women to join in the war effort during World War II
4.
Who were the Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Abraham Baldwin, William Few, William Hartsfield
b)
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
c)
Maynard Jackson, Benjamin Mays, Andrew Young
d)
Henry Ellis, James Wright, John Reynolds
5.
Who were the Georgians who helped create the U.S. Constitution during the Constitutional Convention?
a)
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
b)
William Few, Abraham Baldwin
c)
Andrew Young, Benjamin Mays
d)
Elijah Clarke, Austin Dabney
6.
How did John Ross try to prevent Indian Removal?
a)
Lobbied in Washington, D.C.
b)
Led a rebellion
c)
Had a tea party
d)
He did nothing
7.
Which president helped pass the Indian Removal Act?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Theodore Roosevelt
c)
Andrew Jackson
d)
George Washington
8.
Who was the Supreme Court Justice who ruled that the Cherokee did not fall under Georgia law in Worcester v. Georgia?
a)
Andrew Jackson
b)
Andrew Young
c)
John Marshall
d)
Alexander Stephens
9.
What was important about the Dred Scott Court Case?
a)
Slaves were determined to be property without rights
b)
All slaves were free
c)
The Fugitive Slave Law was created
d)
It led to South Carolina to secede
10.
Who was from Georgia, supported the Georgia Platform, and became the Vice President of the Confederacy?
a)
Alexander Stephens
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
Carl Vinson
d)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
11.
What was the role of the Ku Klux Klan?
a)
Helped disenfranchise African Americans and discouraged voting for Republicans
b)
Tried to prevent racial inequality
c)
Helped disenfranchise African Americans, discouraged voting for Democrats
d)
Slowed the transition from agriculture to industry
12.
What type of labor system replaced slavery following the Civil War?
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Frontier farming
c)
Chain gangs
d)
Yeoman farming
13.
What was the name of the prison camp in Georgia?
a)
Auschwitz
b)
Savannah
c)
Andersonville
d)
Chickmauaga
14.
What was the name of this Union strategy?
a)
The Anaconda Attack
b)
The Anaconda Plan
c)
Operation Snake Bite
d)
The Great Bite
15.
After the battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued the following the document
a)
Declaration of Independence
b)
13th Amendment
c)
Emancipation Proclamation
d)
Gettysburg Address
16.
Who was the Vice-President of the Confederacy?
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
Jefferson Davis
c)
Alexander Stephens
d)
Stonewall Jackson
17.
The March to Sea went from what to city to....
a)
Atlanta - Savannah
b)
Atlanta- Andersonville
c)
Chattanooga - Atlanta
d)
Dalton-Milldgeville
18.
Abraham Lincoln was part of which party
a)
Democrats
b)
Whigs
c)
Dixiecrats
d)
Republican
19.
The Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around
a)
the annexation of Texas.
b)
the annexation of Texas.
c)
decreased trade with France.
d)
southern opposition to tariffs.
20.
Which of these inventions resulted in Southern farmers buying slaves in record numbers?
a)
cotton gin
b)
cotton mill
c)
assembly line
d)
spinning jenny
21.
Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to
a)
preserve the Union.
b)
encourage sectionalism.
c)
enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.
d)
end slavery throughout the entire country.
22.
Which two issues played the GREATEST roles in causing the Civil War?
a)
slavery and states' rights
b)
Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal
c)
the Missouri Compromise and the California Gold Rush
d)
the election of James K. Polk and the Northwest Ordinance
23.
Which compromise resulted in the admission of California to the Union as a free state?
a)
the Great Compromise
b)
the Compromise of 1850
c)
the Missouri Compromise
d)
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
24.
What does the term “popular sovereignty” describe?
a)
A. The right of the states to vote on laws
b)
B. Abolitionism
c)
C. The right of the federal government to nullify laws
d)
D. The vote to end the Civil War
25.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
a)
A. It freed all slaves in states fighting against the Union.
b)
B. It freed all slaves in the United States
c)
C. It put Ulysses S. Grant in charge of all Union forces.
d)
D. It allowed slaves to fight in the Confederate army.
26.
What was the purpose of the Union’s blockade of Georgia’s coast?
a)
A. To destroy rail lines
b)
B. To take Atlanta
c)
C. To keep the South from trading goods by ship
d)
D. To force Lee’s surrender at Gettysburg
27.
Which amendment gave citizenship rights to freed slaves?
a)
A. 12th Amendment
b)
B. 13th Amendment
c)
C. 14th Amendment
d)
D. 15th Amendment
28.
Which of the following helped African Americans in the South after the Civil War?
a)
A. Most white landowners
b)
B. The Ku Klux Klan
c)
C. The Freedmen’s Bureau
d)
D. Conservative Democrats
29.
Who could participate in the Land Lottery?
a)
War Veterans and widows
b)
heads of households with kids and white males
c)
All of answers given
30.
What was the purpose of the headright system?
a)
It distributed Indian Lands to new farmers and settlers
b)
It was a method of counting the population
c)
It was a way to monitor voting districts
31.
What scandal took place when Georgia's governor and several legislators were bribed to sell valuable Georgia land at below market prices?
a)
The Cotton Pickin' Fair
b)
The Georgia Land Express
c)
The Yazoo Land Fraud
32.
What was the most damaging result of the Yazoo Land Fraud?
a)
The records were burned
b)
The nation lost confidence in Georgia
c)
Georgia lost valuable land and money in the scandal
33.
The Methodist and Baptist churches split over what issue?
a)
Slavery
b)
The relevance of the Bible
c)
Female preachers
34.
What system replaced the headright system as a way to distribute land?
a)
Settlers Land Give Away
b)
Land Lottery
c)
Homesteading
35.
How did Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin influence the growth of slavery in the South?
a)
It made it easier for slaves to pick cotton.
b)
It replenished the soil as the cotton was harvested.
c)
It increased the profits from growing cotton.
36.
The capital of Georgia moved many times in order to...
a)
stay in the center of the state's population
b)
take adantage of cheaper land
c)
be located in the geographic enter of the state
d)
keep up with the growth of the state government
37.
Why did Georgia invest heavily in railroads before the Civil War?
a)
To transport slaves
b)
to prepare for war
c)
to transport agricultural goods
d)
to attract Northern business and industry
38.
Which system offered Georgia settlers 200 acres of free land, with an additional 50 acres per family member or slave?
a)
the Land Lottery
b)
the Headright system
c)
the Cherokee cession
d)
the County Unit system
39.
Why was William McIntosh killed by his own people?
a)
He signed a treaty giving up the last Creek lands in GA to the federal government
b)
He became friendly with the Cherokee
c)
He failed to defeat the Georgia militia
40.
All the trails along which Natives were taken ended in the Indian Territory which today is ________
a)
Texas
b)
Oklahoma
c)
Kansas
d)
Nebraska
41.
Why were Georgians upset about the Yazoo Land Fraud?
a)
The president kept the money
b)
The land was given away
c)
The Governor and General Assembly were bribed
42.
What was the decision that was handed down in Worcester v. Georgia?
a)
the state of Georgia did not have the right to enforce laws that were not in their jurisdiction
b)
the state of Georgia could arrest anyone they wanted without cause
c)
the Cherokee must leave their lands immediately
d)
the state of Georgia must give up all their lands to the Cherokee
43.
The economic cost of the war led to which two events that created tension between the British and the colonists?
a)
The Quartering Act and the second was the Letter Tax.
b)
The Proclamation of 1763, and the second was a series of taxes, including the Stamp Act (1765).
c)
Declaration of Independence and the second was the blocking of the Boston Harbor
d)
The French and Indian War and the Battle of the Bloody Marsh.
44.
Why did Great Britian impose the Intolerable Acts?
a)
The British issued what the colonist called the Intolerable Acts which included four punitive acts designed to punish the Massachusetts colonist for hanging the effegies of Parliment leaders and royal governors..
b)
The British issued what the colonist called the Intolerable Acts which included four punitive acts designed to punish the Massachusetts colonist for not being Loyalists.
c)
The British issued what the colonist called the Intolerable Acts which included four punitive acts designed to punish the Massachusetts colonist for not buying stamps to place on their letters, newspapers and documents.
d)
The British issued what the colonist called the Intolerable Acts which included four punitive acts designed to punish the Massachusetts colonist for the Boston Tea Party.
45.
Georgia’s loyalty was divided amongst its colonists. Some were loyal to the King and others were outraged over the Intolerable Acts. These two different groups were called
a)
British and Americans
b)
Colonists and Tories
c)
Effigies and Patriots
d)
Loyalists and Patriots
46.
Which Georgia battle was victory for the Patriot colonists?
a)
Lexington and Concord
b)
Siege of Savannah
c)
Bloody Marsh
d)
Kettle Creek
47.
What caused Britain to tax the colonists?
a)
Debt from the French & Indian War
b)
They were poor
c)
The Boston Tea Party
d)
Proclimation of 1763
48.
The first written plan for the government of the US was the
a)
U.S. Constitution
b)
The Georgia Constitution of 1777
c)
The Articles of Confederation
d)
The Declaration of Independence
49.
Why did the authors of the Articles of Confederation want a weak federal government?
a)
They wanted the 13 states to be 13 independent countries.
b)
They did not want to give power to southern states.
c)
They did not want to pay soldiers in the continental army.
d)
They did not want a powerful government like Great Britain.
50.
The initial purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was
a)
to revise the Articles of Confederation
b)
to select the nation's new president
c)
to draft a declaration of independence
d)
to sign the Treaty of Paris
51.
The Articles of Confederation divided the U.S. government into executive, legislative and judicial branches
a)
True
b)
False
52.
Which of the following is true regarding Georgia’s Constitution of 1777?
a)
It made many colonists nervous because it gave too much power to the governor.
b)
The people did not trust a strong governor, so it gave the assembly most of the power.
c)
It did away with counties and combined Georgia into just one state.
d)
It was repealed once the Declaration of Independence was signed.
53.
What document was created in an attempt to revise the Articles of Confederation?
a)
Bill of Rights
b)
Georgia's Constitution of 1777
c)
Declaration of Independence
d)
U.S. Constitution
54.
How was the threat of Creek Indian raids on the Georgia frontier related to Georgia's stance regarding the division of power between federal and state governments during the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
a)
Georgia supported the creation of strong state governments due to the fear of placing too much power in the hands of the president.
b)
Georgia refused to ratify the new Constitution until citizenship rights for the Creek Indians was guaranteed by the federal government.
c)
Georgia supported the creation of a strong central government because the state needed federal support defending the frontier from the Creeks.
d)
Georgia supported the creation of strong state governments because the state militia had been effective in defending the frontier from Indian raids.
55.
What was the main weakness of the Georgia Constitution of 1777?
a)
It placed too much importance on checks and balances.
b)
It gave too much power to the legislative branch.
c)
It established two houses in the legislature.
d)
It created a powerful executive branch.
56.
The Georgia Constitution of 1777 divided Georgia's government into executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
a)
True
b)
False
57.
Which would be a STRENGTH of the GA Constitution of 1777?
a)
It protected basic rights of citizens.
b)
GA voters did not get to ratify (approve) it.
c)
The legislature was very powerful.
d)
There was a unicameral (1 house) legislature.
58.
After the U.S. Constitution was written and signed, it had to be ratified by the states. How did GA respond?
a)
They refused to ratify without a Bill of Rights.
b)
They were slow to approve it.
c)
They quickly ratified, likely to get help with Indian treaties.
d)
They never approved it and later had to apply for statehood.
59.
Why did the patriots want independence from Great Britain?
a)
They wanted to be ruled by Spain.
b)
They felt the taxes were unfair.
c)
The British government was torturing them.
d)
They wanted to have their own monarchy in America.
60.
The Great Compromise accomplished which of the following?
a)
Created a one house legislature
b)
Postponed the conversation about slavery
c)
Added the Bill of Rights
d)
Created a two house legislature
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