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Final exam review
Final review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the 2 seaports in GA | Brunswick and Savannah |
| What is the busiest airport in GA | Hartsfield Jackson airport |
| How many interstate highways are in GA | 4 |
| What is intermodel | Intermodel is the depending on the amount of cargo and how far, how fast it's needed will determine the mode of transportation |
| Roughly how many miles of railroad is in GA | 5000 miles |
| What's mercantilism | When a country should export more than it imports |
| Who is Hernando De Soto | Hernando De Soto was the first European to explore georgia |
| What is a middleman | A trader who buys goods from producers and sells them to other traders and consumers |
| What were Columbus's ships called | Piñata, niña, and Santa Maria |
| When did England start colonies in the Americas | In the 1600s |
| What was the 2nd bloodiest battle during the civil war | The battle of Chickamauga |
| Describe the GA platform | A statement supporting the free state of Californians long as the fugitive slave act was enforced in the north |
| During which phase of reconstruction was the 14th amendment created | Presidential reconstruction |
| What was Andersonville | A confederate prison camp holding Union soldiers prisoner |
| Which amendment abolished slavery in the Union and the Confederacy | 13th |
| What are the 3 underlying causes of the Civil War | States' rights, sectionalism, and slavery |
| What hurt the South's economy badly | The Union blockade/ Anaconda plan |
| Describe the Anaconda plan | The union ships blocked all southern ports making it impossible to trade |
| What is a tenant farmer | a farmer who owns their supplies and equipment but works off someone else's land |
| What were the 2 major campaigns that occured in GA | Atlanta campaign and Savannah campaign |
| Define nullification | make of no use or value: cancel out |
| Why were black legislatures expelled from the GA house and senate | they had the right to vote not hold office |
| What are Copperheads | people who wanted the Civil War to be done with and peace with the Confederacy |
| Who won the election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Why were the results of the election of 1860 so shocking | No one from the South voted for Abraham Lincoln |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation | A statement made by Lincoln that freed all slaves in the South |
| Who was in charge at Andersonvile | Captain Henry Wirz |
| What years did the Civil War take place | 1861-1865 |
| Who was Dred Scott | a slave that once lived in a free state and tried to get freedom |
| What was the fugitive slave act | a law in the northern states that made it legal to bring back runaway slaves to their owners |
| What was the 14th amendment | it gave all people in the United states the same civil rights |
| What was the 15th amendment | it gave all male citizens the right to vote |
| What fort did the Civil war begin at | Fort Sumter |
| What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write about slavery | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| What was the Missouri Compromise | An agreement that said Missouri was a slave state; while Maine would be a free state |
| What was the first southern state to secede from the United States | South carolina |
| Who was the Vice president of the Confederacy | Alexander Stephens |
| What was the bloodiest battle during the Civil War | Gettysburg |
| True or False: Disease was the major cause of death in the Civil War | True |
| True or False: Abraham Lincoln was assasinated | True |
| True or False: GA was Britain's 13th colony | True |
| Who was the interpreter between Oglethorpe and Tomochichi | Mary Musgrove |
| Describe the Charter of 1732 | It let 21 trustees manage GA for 21 years under King George's command |
| What was the name of 1742 battle between the English colonists and the Spanish | Bloody Marsh |
| According to the Charter of 1732, the Georgia colony stretched from the Savannah River southward to where | Altamaha River |
| Who is the "father" of GA | James Oglethorpe |
| Who is Tomochichi | A Yamacraw Bluff chief who befriended Oglethorpe |
| What did Oglethorpe originally want GA to be | A debtors colony |
| Which group of colonists were known for being fierce fighters | Highland Scots |
| Who was GA governed by | 21 trustees |
| Who established missions along the east coast | Spain |
| What was the ship that brought the GA colonists over called | The Ann |
| What were 3 reasons that GA was colonized | Defense, Economics, and Charity |
| Were catholics allowed to become apart of GA | No |
| Who were malcontents | People who weren't original colonists, so they thought that they didn't have to give the trustees the same loyalty |
| Who made Ebenezer | The Salzburgers |
| Define trustee | someone placed in an official place on behalf of someone |
| Where did James Oglethorpe land his people when he got to America | Yamacaw Bluff on Savannah river |
| Was Savannah the first city in GA | Yes |
| What was Spanish name for their claim to the islands of the Georgia coast | Guale |
| What were the 5 GA capitals | Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta |
| Describe the headright system | The headright system was a system that gave land to the head of a white family |
| What scandal took place when Georgia’s governor and some legislators were bribed to sell public land to private developers at below-market prices | Yazoo land fraud |
| What were the 2 major Indian tribes in GA | Cherokee and Creek |
| What system replaced the headright system | Land lottery |
| What was the Louisiana purchase | A purchase that extended the United States to the rocky mountains |
| What was New Echota | The first Cherokee capital |
| Who made the Cherokee syllabary | Sequoyah |
| What invention increased cotton production | The cotton gin |
| Describe red sticks and white sticks | Red sticks were creek indians who wanted war and white sticks were creek indians that wanted peace |
| Which creek chief gave up the remaining land of the creek to the US gov? What was his punishment | William McIntosh, being scalped and he was executed |
| What was the first Native American newspaper | The Cherokee Phoenix |
| Who was the president that started the trail of tears | Andrew Jackson |
| What was the Trail of Tears | The removal of the Cherokee from GA to their reserves by walking on a trail |
| The discovery of what and where led to the final removal of the Cherokee | Gold in Dahlonega |
| Cherokee chief John Ross did what | Made a petition to protest the Indian removal |
| What Congressional legislation allowed Georgia to push the Creek and the Cherokee out of the state and to seize their lands | The Indian Removal Act of 1830 |
| What was the U.S. Supreme Court case about where Worcester vs Georgia | A white missionary who was arrested for trying to help the Cherokee people keep their land |
| What did the U.S. Supreme Court decide in Worcester vs Georgia | Georgia laws did not apply in Cherokee lands |
| Who was the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled that Cherokee territory was not subject to Georgia’s state land | John Marshall |
| Name the 3 GA signers of the declaration of independence | George Walton, Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett |
| What did the Stamp Act do | place a tax on all printed items |
| What did the Liberty Boys oppose | the Stamp act |
| What were the people who wanted independence called | Patriots |
| What did the French Indian war do to lead up to the American Revolution | It put Britain in debt which led to taxes being put on the colonies |
| Which document was considered an act of treason against Great Britain | The Declaration of Independence |
| What was a punishment from the Boston Tea Party | The intolerable acts |
| What was in the proclamation of 1763 that angered colonists | That they couldn't settle west of the appalachain mountains |
| Why was the battle of kettle creek such an important battle for the Patriots | It was their first major win in the war |
| What attempted to end British control in Savannah | The Siege of Savannah |
| What was the name of the document that the colonies used to govern themselves after they declared independence | Articles of confederation |
| What is Paul Revere best known for | Riding into boston to warn the patriots "the british are coming" |
| True or False: The boston massacre was used for propaganda for the patriots | True |
| What was the southern boundary of GA according to the Proclamation of 1763 | St. Mary's |
| What was the meeting in Philadelphia called where they decided to write the Declaration of Independence | Second Continental Congress |
| What is Thomas Jefferson best known for | Being the author of the declaration of independence |
| What were 3 of the many acts that led to the American Revolution | The Intolerable Acts, The Quartering Act, The Sugar Act |
| Under the Articles of Confederation each state was given how many vote | One |
| Describe the Boston Massacre | It was where patriots were calling names at british soldiers and teh soldiers shot fire, killing 5 civilians |
| Who was a trained military officer that helped the Patriots fight for independence | George Washington |
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