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Georgia and the American Revolution
Georgia and the American Revolution
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Why was Nancy Hart famous?
Signed the Constitution
Captured and killed a group of Tories.
Captured Liberty Boys
Fought at Kettle Creek
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What was the first direct tax by Parliament on the American colonies?
Currency Act
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
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Who were the three Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett, James Wright
Noble Jones, Elijah Clark, Austin Dabneye
George Walton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Ellis, James Wright
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Declaration of Independence was written primarily by
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
William Few
Thomas Jefferson
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Who was the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
George Walton
James Wright
Henry Ellis
Button Gwinnett
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What was the Most significant result of the siege of Savannah?
Last major conflict of the Revolutionary War.
Deadliest battle of the Revolutionary War.
British were pushed out of GA.
Savannah remained in British hands.
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What battle ended the Revolutionary War?
Kettle Creek
Lexington
Siege of Savannah
Yorktown
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Revolutionary War Hero born a freeborn mulatto
Crispus Attucks
Alonzo Herndon
Elijah Clarke
Austin Dabney
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Who led the forces at the Battle of Kettle Creek?
Elijah Clarke
George Washington
Benjamin Lincoln
Nathaniel Green
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What was the main weakness of the Georgia Constitution of 1777?
Gave too much power to legislative branch
Independent executive branch
Two-part legislative branch
No court system
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How did the French and Indian War lead to America's Revolutionary War?
Great Britain taxed the French and Indians.
The British taxed the colonies.
Great Britain sold Spain.
Great Britain sold rum to the Indians.
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How was the governor selected under the Georgia Constitution of 1777?
legislature
judicial
executive council
judges
13
The Proclamation of 1763 moved Georgia's southern boundary to the
Suwanee River
Flint River
St. Mary's River
Altamaha River
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How many states ratified the U.S. Constitution before Georgia?
3
2
4
5
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Four laws inactedby Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Tea Act
Navigation Acts
Stamp Act
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The purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, was to
Revise the Articles of Confederation.
Select a president.
Select a governor.
sign the Treaty of Paris
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Which Act impacted Georgia the greatest?
Quartering Act
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
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Georgians who came together to oppose the Stamp Act called themselves the
Sons of Liberty
Tories
Revolutionary Guards
Liberty Boys
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What law forbade colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?
The Proclamation of 1763
Missouri Compromise
Emancipation Proclamation
Intolerable Acts
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Those loyal to the king of England were known as
Patriots
Liberty Boys
Loyalists
Colonists
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Who was the foreign patriot who died during the siege of Savannah?
Casimir Pulaski
Henri Comte d'Estaing
Jean Baptist Rochambeau
Bernardo de Galvez
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Where did the first colonial victory in Georgia during the Revolutionary War occur?
Sunbury
Louisville
Savannah
Kettle Creek
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Under the Articles of Confederation, there was no
Confederation
law-making body
national court system
unicameral legislature
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Why are Abraham Baldwin and William Few significant in Georgia History?
Signed the U.S. Constitution
They were loyalists.
Wrote the Georgia Constitution
Wrote Articles of Confederation
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Most of the fighting in Georgia during the American Revolution was between
Patriots and Loyalists
British and French
Loyalists and Indians
Spanish and British