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WorksheetsAvelar 1st 9 weeks Review
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 28mins
The state of Georgia’s smallest region tucked into the northwest corner of the state referred to as TAG corner and is home to Lookout Mountain and Sand Mountain
Blue Ridge
Piedmont
The Appalachian Plateau
Valley and Ridge
This region is home to Brasstown Bald, and receives most of the state’s rainfall
Appalachian Plateau
Blue Ridge
This region has the majority of the states population due to densely populated cities like Atlanta, Augusta, and Macon.
Piedmont
Coastal Plains
Valley and Ridge
Blue Ridge
This region is home to Dalton, Ga aka the Carpet capital of the World
Piedmont
Coastal Plains
Blue Ridge
Valley and Ridge
Georgia's largest region that covers most of the state
Home to most of Georgia’s industries and leads the nation in production of granite and marble
Piedmont
Blue Ridge
Coastal Plains
Valley and Ridge
This Georgia region produces apples, grapes, wood and its mountains receive the warm air from the gulf stream to produce rain
Appalachian Plateau
Coastal Plains
Piedmont
Blue Ridge
This region is known for its red clay that is rich in iron minerals
Piedmont
Coastal Plains
Blue Ridge
Valley and Ridge
This region produces the majority of the states crops like peanuts, onions, pecans, and other agricultural products
Coastal Plains
Piedmont
Blue Ridge
Valley and Ridge
What region of the United States is Georgia located in
This is the continent that Georgia is located on.
Georgia is located in these two hemispheres
This body of water separates Georgia from South Carolina on it’s eastern border
This river serves as a border on the western side of the state separating Georgia from Alabama. It also runs into the Gulf of America/Mexico
This southern edge of the Piedmont has waterfalls and rapids that can be used for hydroelectricity
Okefenokee Swamp
Fall Line
Appalachian Mountains
Lake Hartwell
This initial ruling governmental group of Georgia was against rum, slavery, and land ownership of more than 50 acres
These people paid their own way over to Georgia and strongly opposed the prohibition of slavery
Pilgrims
Highland Scots
Jews
Malcontents
These Austrian settlers were in support of the prohibition of slavery
Salzburgers
Malcontents
Highland Scots
Trustees
Due to a change in the laws that satisfied the Malcontents this population grew dramatically
Slaves
These three crops were the only successful W.R.I.S.T. crops and grew in bulk
Rice, Indigo, Tobacco
Economically, the mercantilist goals for the new colony were to use the colony to provide markers for British goods and to produce these two unsuccessful crops for British markets
The two unsuccessful crops were likely wine and silk.
Colonists were encouraged to plant these during the trustee period to increase the silkworm population
The colony being set up in Savannah was beneficial because of its location on the Atlantic Ocean encouraged trade of the WRIST crops with what nation?
King George II thought that Georgia would serve as this as a means of defense which was the MAIN reason the British government supported the colony
The three reasons outlined in the Charter of 1732 for settling Georgia
He was chief of the Yamacraw or Creek Indians who negotiated a peaceful settlement in Savannah as a mediator for his tribe
She served as a translator/interpreter between Oglethorpe and the Creek to help with the founding of the colony of Georgia and developed a friendship with the tribe
A group of German Protestants who sought religious freedom and desired to establish a silk colony. Given land they named Ebenezer
These colonists felt that Georgia would never prosper unless people could buy and sell land and use slaves in their fields
Malcontents
Salzburgers
Jews
Highland Scots.
They settled in Darien, Georgia and were recruited to help defend the colony from Spanish Florida as they had a reputation as skilled warriors who’s Presbyterian faith believed slavery should be banned
Highland Scots
This religious group was not permitted in the colony as there was a fear that their faith might allow them to side with the Spanish in Florida
They were appointed by King George II after the trustee period
During the royal colony period this group of people became legal to work the fields and help Georgia thrive economically
Male property owners in Georgia were able for the first time in the Royal Colony period were able to do these two things
Plans to sell rum, have slaves, and build large plantations to grow cash crops marked a change to this period with began in 1754
The Royal Colony period leading to the American Revolution.
Why did Spanish concentrate their initial colonization of Georgia along the barrier islands?
The English colonies would be used as a source of food crops, tobacco and raw materials for England and also as valuable markets to sell the English products made in the factories from these raw materials is referred to as.
Which of the following is the first barrier (wall) to the warm air from the Gulf?
As a result, this was the primary reason that led to the American Revolution. (used to repay debt from the French and Indian War.)
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
What effect did the Proclamation of 1763 have on the colony of Georgia?
It expanded the states boundaries to the St. Mary's River tot he south and the Mississippi River to the west.
Explain how Georgia felt about the imposition of the Stamp Act on the colony as a whole
Georgia opposed the Stamp Act, viewing it as an unjust tax imposed without representation but sold the stamp anyways.
These are the three parts of the Declaration of Independence.
Preamble, List of Grievances, the Declaration
Quartering troops, taxes (No taxation without representation), no power in the legislature would all be found in what part of the Declaration of Independence?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights…” would be found in which part of the Declaration of Independence
Who were the three gentlemen who represented Georgia in the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
William Few, Abraham Baldwin, and Button Gwinnett
These colonists felt that their God given rights were being violated
The American patriots.
They felt the colonists were guilty of treason (betraying their country)
Patriots
Loyalists
Malcontents
Highland Scots
Elijah Clark led the patriot militia to victory at the Battle of Kettle Creek which did these two things
Boosted patriot morale and provided supplies to the Patriot Army.
The colonists saw this city’s ports as important because it could prevent the British from shipping and receiving supplies
Savannah
The French joined the colonists in an effort to retake a coastal city, but it was an epic failure as it resulted in the second largest loss of life in the American Revolution.
1787 Constitutional Convention was set up to revise these for having a weak central government.
States having their own currency (money), inability to force states to comply with taxes and laws were some of the reasons the United States replaced the Articles of Confederation with the
The AoC couldn’t enforce taxes without an executive branch, or settle legal disputes because they did not have a what?
judicial system/National court system
After the American Revolution, the states set up a weak national government in the Articles of Confederation because
