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WorksheetsGeorgia History -Practice test
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What Spanish explorer crossed Georgia hoping to find cities of gold?
a)
Hernando de Soto
b)
John Cabot
c)
Ponce de Leon
d)
Henry Hudson
2.
Who established the colony of Georgia?
a)
Samuel de Champlain
b)
James Oglethorpe
c)
John Reynolds
d)
Tom Watson
3.
What Indian chief helped early Georgia settlers?
a)
Yamacraw
b)
Tomochichi
c)
Sitting Bull
d)
Geronimo
4.
Who opposed restrictions on slavery, land sales, and liquor in Georgia
a)
malcontents
b)
Highland Scots
c)
Salzburgers
d)
James Oglethorpe
5.
What stopped settlers from moving west beyond the Appalachian Mountains
a)
Colonization Law
b)
Boundaries Act
c)
Proclamation of 1763
d)
Settlement Act
6.
What punished colonists for rebellious activities like the Boston Tea Party?
a)
Intolerable Acts
b)
Stamp Act
c)
Molasses Act
d)
Tea Act
7.
Which Georgia signed the Declaration of Independence
a)
James Oglethorpe
b)
Henry Hudson
c)
Casimir Pulaski
d)
Button Gwinnett
8.
What Revolutionary War battle broke the British stronghold in Georgia
a)
Siege of Savannah
b)
Battle of Virginia
c)
Battle of Kettle Creek
d)
Battle of Britain
9.
What Georgia slave was freed to take his master's place in the Revolutionary War
a)
Elijah Clarke
b)
Dred Scott
c)
Austin Dabney
d)
John Adams
10.
In what year was Georgia's first constitution adopted
a)
1776
b)
1800
c)
1840
d)
1777
11.
What document was created in an attempt to revise the Articles of Confederation?
a)
U.S. Constitution
b)
Georgia Constitution
c)
Declaration of Independence
d)
Articles of Government
12.
What was the first university established by a state government
a)
Oglethorpe University
b)
University of Georgia
c)
Augusta State University
d)
Harvard University
13.
Legislators were bribed to sell land at a very low price in the
a)
Yazoo Land Fraud
b)
Yazoo Land Lottery
c)
Georgia Land Scandal
d)
Land Purchase Plan
14.
What crop led to tremendous growth in 19th century Georgia
a)
wheat
b)
peanuts
c)
cotton
d)
carrotts
15.
What event eventually led to the removal of Cherokee Indians from Georgia
a)
murder of a Cherokee leader
b)
spread of slavery in Georgia
c)
burning of Atlanta courthouse
d)
discovery of gold in north Georgia
16.
What were Southerners objecting to in the "nullification controversy"?
a)
tariff on imported goods
b)
slave trade in Georgia
c)
taxation without representation
d)
sale of liquor in Georgia
17.
What compromise kept the balance between slave states and free states?
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Georgia Platform
d)
Nebraska Agreement
18.
General Sherman took his troops through the state of Georgia in the
a)
Atlanta Campaign
b)
March to the Sea
c)
Battle of Augusta
d)
Battle of Kettle Creek
19.
What organization helped freed slaves after the Civil War
a)
Freedman's Bureau
b)
Freedom First Group
c)
Reconstruction Bureau
d)
Slavery Aid Society
20.
Who led Georgia farmers in the Populist Party
a)
Rebecca Latimer Felton
b)
Button Gwinnett
c)
James Oglethorpe
d)
Tom Watson
21.
What laws were passed to discriminate against African Americans
a)
County Unit Laws
b)
Plessy-Ferguson rulings
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Fair Living Laws
22.
Who urged African Americans to speak out against discrimination
a)
Booker T Washington
b)
W.E.B. Dubois
c)
Lugenia Burns Hope
d)
Thomas Jefferson
23.
The sinking of what British passenger liner during WWI outraged Americans
a)
Lusitania
b)
Titanic
c)
Prosperity
d)
America
24.
What event led the United States into World War II
a)
Lend-lease Act
b)
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
c)
bombing of Hiroshima
d)
murder of Abraham Lincoln
25.
What civil rights leader believed in nonviolent protest
a)
Booker T Washington
b)
Martin Luther King, Sr
c)
Martin Luther King, Jr
d)
W.E.B. Dubois
26.
What legislation prohibited discrimination based on color, race, or religion in public places
a)
Civil Rights Act
b)
Albany Act
c)
Civil Equality Act
d)
Stamp Act
27.
Who was the first African American mayor of a major Southern city
a)
William Hartsfield
b)
Lugenia Burns Hope
c)
Andrew Young
d)
Maynard Jackson
28.
What divides Georgia's sources of water
a)
Fall Line
b)
Amicalola Falls
c)
Chattahoochee River
d)
Mississippi River
29.
Georgia's location has made it a center of _____ in the South
a)
Southern Culture
b)
transportation
c)
museums
d)
boating
30.
Georgia's General Assembly is what branch of government
a)
executive
b)
legislative
c)
judicial
d)
least important
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