Georgia Studies Mid Term Part 2

Question 1

Sequoyah was known for…

Accepted Answer

Developing the Cherokee syllabary

Question 2

The “Trail of Tears” was the name given to the route the Cherokees took from Georgia to…

Accepted Answer

Oklahoma

Question 3

Why did Georgia invest heavily in railroads in the early 1800s?

Accepted Answer

to ship agricultural products

Question 4

Which did NOT contribute to the removal of the Native Americans in Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Sequoyah’s syllabary

Question 5

Why are there checks and balances in the Georgia and US Constitution?

Accepted Answer

to ensure that no branch of government becomestoo powerful.

Question 6

The two largest Indian tribes in Georgia were the…

Accepted Answer

Creeks and Cherokees

Question 7

What can the Executive Branch do to a bill? ( 2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

Accepted Answer

Do nothing and allow the bill to become a law, Sign the Bill or Veto the Bill

Question 8

In order to calm states over the new Constitution, new amendements were added called:

Accepted Answer

The Bill of Rights

Question 9

What does SALMA mean? ( Hint- Georgia's Moving Capitals)

Accepted Answer

Sasvannah, Augusta, Louisville, Miledgeville, Atlanta

Question 10

Which is a qualification to participate in the land lottery?

Accepted Answer

You had to live in Georgia for 12 months

Question 11

What are the functions of each branch of government? (3 correct answers)

Accepted Answer

Legislative- Make Laws, Judicial- Interpret the Law, Executive- Enforce Laws

Question 12

The privilege of Georgia citizenship brings with it certain VOLUNTARY responsibilities, like...

Accepted Answer

voting

Question 13

The Creek Indian chief who was killed because he agreed to cede the last of the Creek lands:

Accepted Answer

William McIntosh

Question 14

The Yazoo Land Fraud is the worst political scandal in Georgia history because…

Accepted Answer

land speculators bribed politicians to sell them land cheap

Question 15

After the Yazoo Land Fraud, Georgia's Western border shrunk to the ___________ River

Accepted Answer

Chattahoochee

Question 16

Georgia leaders based their decision of not recognizing the Cherokee government on.....

Accepted Answer

the Constitution prohibited having a nation within a state.

Question 17

Initially, Georgia land was distributed through the _________ system, then the _____ _____

Accepted Answer

headright, land lottery

Question 18

The capital of Georgia moved many times in order to….

Accepted Answer

stay in the center of the state’s population

Question 19

Because of its being a transportation hub of the railroads, Atlanta was first given the name:

Accepted Answer

Terminus

Question 20

Expressing your opinion to a newspaper or website is an example of...

Accepted Answer

freedom of speech and press

Question 21

The whites wanted the Creeks removed…

Accepted Answer

for their fertile land.

Questions 21