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Final Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the causes of the Civil War? | Tariffs (taxes), slavery, sectionalism, election of Lincoln. |
| What was the first state to seceded from the Union? | South Carolina |
| What was the first major battle of the Civil War? | First Battle of Bull Run |
| This battle became known as the bloodiest day of the Civil War? | Antietam |
| As the Civil War began the South planned a(n)... | A defensive war |
| Who was the Union general who waged a total war and led some 62,000 troops on a march to the sea to capture Savannah, Georgia? | William T. Sherman |
| What were the two leading causes of death during the Civil War? | Infection and disease |
| What freed the slaves in ONLY the Confederate states? | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Why did President Lincoln decide to issue the Emancipation Proclamation? | He regarded slavery as another strategy to ending the war. |
| He was the last Union general who won the war for the North. | General Ulysses S. Grant |
| The small group of Democrats remaining in Congress who protested the war were known as ___________? | Copperheads |
| The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in... | 1863 |
| This three-day battle changed the tide of the war against the south. | Gettysburg |
| Approximately how many people die in the Civil War? | 620,000 |
| Where was the treaty for the end of the Civil War signed? | Appomattox Courthouse |
| This was a military campaign by William Tecumseh Sherman to, "show young and old, alike, the hard hand of war."This campaign is an example of "total war." | March to the Sea |
| Who surrendered to General Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse? | Robert E. Lee |
| What law allowed California to enter the Union as a free state? | Compromise of 1850 |
| What amendment freed ALL slaves? | 13th amendment |
| What amendment allowed all adult men including blacks to vote? | 15th amendment |
| Which amendment gave ALL blacks citizenship and equal rights as the rest? | 14th amendment |
| Who was the President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865? | Jefferson Davis |
| What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820? | effort by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to maintain a balance of power between the slave holding states and free states |
| How did the Georgia Platform help? | It helped stop the secession of 1850. |
| What was the Atlanta Campaign? | It cut off the Confederate's supply lines.(May 7, 1863- September 2, 1864) |
| Which battle in the Civil War was the second bloodiest battle? | The Battle of Chickamauga |
| What is nullification? | a state of being nullified. |
| What is the difference between tenant farming and sharecropping? | A tenant farmer brings his tools, animals, and supplies while a sharecropper only brings his labor. |
| Why was the South angry about the results of the Election of 1860? | The south was angry that no one in the south voted for the person who actually won the election and they thought he had cheated. |
| What was the Dread Scott Case? | It established that slaves were property not citizens and that they had no rights. |
| What does the acronym SALMA stand for? | The 5 capitals of Georgia in order (Savannah, August, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta) |
| Georgiaâs first capital. | Savannah |
| Georgiaâs fifth and present capital. | Atlanta |
| What does a system of land distribution in Georgia that provided 200 acres of land to the head of a household describe? | Headright System |
| What is a Land lottery? | This was a system of land distribution that provided men who were 21 years of age and older the chance to win a plot of land. |
| This act sold much of the land that would become Alabama and Mississippi to four land companies for $500,000. | The Yazoo Land Fraud |
| What was the invention that increased the amount of cotton and slaves? | The cotton gin |
| What are railroads? | Transportation invention of the early 1800s that connected different regions |
| What was the first chartered land grant university? | UGA |
| What was the permanent capital of the Cherokee? | New Echota |
| Who were the Cherokee? | They were a Native American tribe who adopted the European lifestyle and lived in the mountains of North GA. |
| Which Native American group lost their land due to the Treaty of New York in 1790 and the Treaty of Indian Springs? | The creeks |
| What happened during the trail of tears? | Thousands of Native Americans were forced from their homes and marched to Oklahoma. Over 4,000 men, women, children, and babies died on the trip from exposure and disease |
| The court case ruled that the Cherokee Nation did not have to follow the laws of Georgia. | Worcester vs GA |
| What was the Dahlonega gold rush? | In north Georgia gold was found in this city. This caused a major rush of settlers to move to the area, which was Cherokee Indian land. |
| Which Creek Indian chief who was executed by his own tribe for angering them? | William Mclntosh |
| Who was John Marshall? | He was the chief justice of the US Supreme Court. He ruled in favor of sovereignty for the Cherokee Nation and his ruling should have prevented the removal of thousands of Native Americans from Georgia. |
| Who was the inventor of the cotton gin? | Eli Whitney |
| He was a Cherokee chief of mixed heritage who fought against Indian removal. | John Ross |
| Who was Andrew Jackson? | President of the United States who supported Indian removal and refused to enforce the supreme court ruling that would have prevented Indian removal. |
| What was the third and final part of the Declaration of Independence? | Declaration |
| What was the preamble of the Declaration of Independence? | It was the first part of the Declaration of Independence and explains to the reader about the natural rights of all people, states the reasons for the document. |
| What was the second part of the Declaration of Independence? | The grievances which includes the list details why the colonies deemed independence necessary. |
| What was the document that claimed the 13 colonies' independence from Great Britain? | The Declaration of Independence |
| He signed the Declaration of Independence for Georgia and his signature is very valuable? | Button Gwinnett |
| He also signed the Declaration of Independence for Georgia and had the most political success than the rest. | George Walton |
| Who was Lyman Hall? | one of the Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence and elected Governor in 1783. |
| What was the name for the American colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain? | Loyalists |
| What was the name of the American colonists who rebelled against Great Britain? | Patriots |
| What was the Constitutional Convention of 1787? | a meeting of men representing who represented the states where the U.S. Constitution was written |
| This was an important battle for the patriots. | The battle of kettle creek |
| What was the siege of savannah? | battle that marked the first time American and French troops fought together |
| War between Great Britain and France, fought over their world empires. | The French and Indian War |
| It was a tax placed on newspapers, legal documents, and licenses. | Stamp act |
| What was the Proclamation of 1763? | Order issued by King George III that moved Georgia's southern boundary to the St. Marys River and did not allow the colonist to move west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| What was the slogan the colonists used for protests? | âNo taxation without representationâ |
| He founded UGA and was one of the Georgia signers of the US constitution. | Abraham Baldwin |
| He was one of the Georgia signers of the US constitution. | William Few |
| What was the name of a group of middle and upper class citizens that formed to protest the Stamp Act? | Sons of Liberty |
| This was an agreement signed by the 13 original states setting up the first national government for the United States. | The Articles of Confederation |
| What was the plant that produced a bluish-purple dye, was highly desired by British textile producers? | Indigo |
| This was Georgia's first staple crop, became a profitable agricultural commodity along the coast and encouraged the rise in great wealth for producers of the grain? | Rice |
| How did colonist make silk? | Colonists planted mulberry trees in an effort to provide sustenance for worms. Never became successful. |
| Who were the Mississippians? | Native Americans living in Georgia at time of European exploration. rose to dominance around 800 CE and organized themselves into a very complex "chiefdom" society. |
| What was a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread Christianity to the Native Americans? | Spanish Mission |
| Who was the first explorer to explore Georgia? | Hernando De Soto |
| Who were the 3 royal governors of Georgia, in order? | John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, and James Wright |
| What was one reason for the colony of Georgia to help relieve poverty and unemployment? | Philanthropy |
| The act of defending something or someone from attack, one reason for the colony of Georgia? | Defense |
| What does economics have to do with the founding of the colony of Georgia? | To increase trade and wealth and one reason the colony of Georgia was founded. |
| What was the Charter of 1732? | Created strict guidelines for Georgia colonists and outlined the boundaries for the colony of Georgia. |
| Who was the founder of Georgia? | James Oglethorpe |
| He was a creek leader who allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff. | Tomochichi |
| She was the translator between James Oglethorpe and Tomochichi. | Mary Musgrove |
| They first arrived in the Georgia colony five months after Oglethorpe landed at Yamacraw Bluff, allowed in the colony because of their doctor. | Jews |
| Who were the Salzburgers? | They were group of German Protestants who moved to the Georgia colony and settled in New Ebenezer and opposed slavery. |
| They were group from Scotland who moved to the Georgia colony and settled in Darien and opposed slavery. | Highland Scots |
| Who were the people in Georgia who were constantly angry? | Malcontents |
| Who were the trustee? | They were 21 individuals named by King George II in 1732 to govern the new colony of Georgia |
| A trade policy based on the idea that a country should sell more to other countries than it buys from them, in order to increase its wealth. | mercantilism |
| What disease from Europe killed many Native Americans? | Small pox |
| What were the three major reasons for exploring the new world in Spain? | God, glory, gold |
| What were the three major European countries competing for the new world? | Spain, France, and Great Britain |
| Who signed the Charter of 1732 that created Georgia? | King George || |
| Who is known as the father of Georgia? | James Oglethorpe |
| What is one of the busiest airports in the world located in Atlanta? | Hartsfield- J Jackson international airport |
| What road system helped Atlanta become a national business destination if its accessibility? | Interstate highway system |
| Important waterways used for shipping cargo located in Savannah and Brunswick. | Deep water ports |
| What transportation system crucial to Atlanta founding continues to be important too the cityâs economy today? | Railroads |
| Vehicles that are transported to the east coast of this country from another would most likely enter the country where? | Brunswick Georgia |
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Carolina Diaz
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