8th Grade SS GEORGIA MILESTONES REVIEW

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT a large business that provides jobs and income for GA?

Accepted Answer

Wal-Mart

Question 2

paying taxes, serving on jury, protecting country, voting, are all examples of ___ of citizens

Accepted Answer

Responsibilties

Question 3

Used to train soldiers, serve as military hospitals, and POW camps during WWII in GA

Accepted Answer

Military bases

Question 4

Economic system where you export more than you import

Accepted Answer

mercantiism

Question 5

Region of GA that receives the most rainfall and provides water for the state

Accepted Answer

blue ridge

Question 6

Two major Indian tribes living in GA during the time of European exploration

Accepted Answer

Creek & Cherokee

Question 7

System of voting used in local and state elections which gave small counties more voting power

Accepted Answer

County Unit

Question 8

Civil War battle where Union troops won control of railroad center near Chattanooga, TN

Accepted Answer

Chickamauga

Question 9

Three primary reasons for European exploration of new world

Accepted Answer

God, Glory, gold

Question 10

Chief justice of Supreme Court who ruled in favor of Cherokees in Worcestor v GA

Accepted Answer

John Marshall

Question 11

Said colonists could not move west of Appalachian Mts to stop conflicts with Indians

Accepted Answer

Proclamation of 1763

Question 12

legal theory that states had the right to invalidate any law they believed unconstitutional

Accepted Answer

nullification

Question 13

A county government is headquartered here:

Accepted Answer

County Seat

Question 14

Last major prehistoric Native Americans in Georgia, wiped out from diseases brought by Spanish

Accepted Answer

Mississippian

Question 15

Which geographic region is the largest in land area (in yellow and lime green on map)?

Accepted Answer

coastal plain

Question 16

GA's third capital city; first to show shift in population westward

Accepted Answer

Louisville

Question 17

Policy used by US at beginning of WWII to allow Allies to borrow or rent weapons

Accepted Answer

Lend-Lease

Question 18

redrawing the boundaries of election districts; allowed more blacks & women to be elected in GA

Accepted Answer

reapportionment

Question 19

Father of "Two Ocean" navy; served 25 consecutive terms in US House of Representatives for GA

Accepted Answer

Carl Vinson

Question 20

considered an offense when committed by child; not a crime when commited by adult

Accepted Answer

Unruly

Question 21

Churches by Spain to convert natives to Catholicism; first set up on islands off coast of GA

Accepted Answer

Missions

Question 22

The three parts of a household budget include all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Entrepreneurship

Question 23

Desegregation movement that began in Albany, GA with the help of NAACP and SNCC

Accepted Answer

Albany Movement

Question 24

Mayor of ATL who integrated City Hall and helped to bring major league sports to city

Accepted Answer

Ivan Allen, Jr.

Question 25

Northern war strategy to close off southern ports to keep them from importing or exporting

Accepted Answer

Blockade of GA coast

Question 26

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Allied powers in WWII

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 27

Battle in GA that resulted in a loss that failed to take back GA's capital city from British

Accepted Answer

Siege of Savannnah

Question 28

Which is the first step in a bill becoming a law in GA?

Accepted Answer

drafting

Question 29

Which was not one of the 3 main reasons outlined in the Charter of 1732 for settling Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Religious Freedom

Question 30

President of Atlanta University who helped create NAACP& worked with wife to help blacks in ATL

Accepted Answer

John Hope

Question 31

River that serves as the natural boundry between Georgia and Alabama

Accepted Answer

Chattahoochee

Question 32

New political party that was formed in the New South that supported farmers and blacks in GA

Accepted Answer

Populist

Question 33

Number of trustees that lead GA during trustee periiod

Accepted Answer

21

Question 34

Type of court case where one person sues another for wrongdoing

Accepted Answer

Civil

Question 35

Insect that destroyed large amounts of cotton grown on southern farms in 1920s

Accepted Answer

boll weevil

Question 36

a person who created jobs by taking the risk to start a new business

Accepted Answer

Entrepreneur

Question 37

Which is NOT one of the 7 deadly sins that gets a juvenile charged as an adult in GA?

Accepted Answer

Skipping school

Question 38

New Deal program that restricted farm production by paying farmers to grow less

Accepted Answer

AAA

Question 39

One of the two events that led to US joining WWI

Accepted Answer

Zimmerman Telegram

Question 40

The General Assembly make up the Legislative Branch & include which 2 houses?

Accepted Answer

Senate & House of Representatives

Question 41

A school police department is an example of which type of government:

Accepted Answer

Special Purpose

8th Grade SS GEORGIA MILESTONES REVIEW

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