The Sibley Commission rejected its findings and argued for what?

Token integration to avoid violence and nationwide scorn

Georgia provided which of the following the the U.S. war effort in WWII

Bell Bombers, Liberty Ships, Training Forts

When a bill is first presented in the legislature it first is sent where?

To a committee focused on the issue

Why is Georgia able to grow a large variety of crops across the whole state?

A moderate climate with a cooler north and a warmer south

Why is it noteworthy that the Coastal Plains were once submerged under ocean water?

It's one reason the soil is so good for agriculture, It explains the sharp elevation decline at the Fall Line, It explains why Georgia's state fossil is the sharkstooth

These two men debated and disagreed about how best to improve black lives in the early 1900s

Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois

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1
Revolutionary War battle that gave hope to the American forces with a victory in Georgia
Siege of Savannah
Lexington and Concord
Battle of Kettle Creek
Battle of Atlanta
2
Who might say, "Let our brightest lead the way to equality for all of us now."
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Hope
3
This group invented the Atlatl hook and transformed hunting forever.
Paleo Indians
Archaic Indians
Mississippian Indians
Woodland Indians
4
Former slave turned preacher and missionary following the Civil War
Henry McNeal Turner
Alonzo Herdon
Booker T. Washinton
Austin Dabney
5
Dressing like a man, spying and killing Torries got a county and lake named after this person
Mary Musgrove
Stephanie Gwinnett
Rosalyn Carter
Nancy Hart
6
The Sibley Commission rejected its findings and argued for what?
The full and complete integration of schools
Token integration to avoid violence and nationwide scorn
The integration of the University of Georgia
The closing of all public schools
7
When a country keeps only certain powers in different branches it has what principle in action
Confederation System of Power
Separation of Powers
A federal system
Checks and balance
8
What is this image depicting?
Yazoo Land Fraud
Burning of the Emancipation Proclamation
Georgia's power as a state
The first meal at the capital
9
This document established charity, economy and military defense as the reasons for Georgia
The Tomochichi Accords
Georgia Platform
Charter of 1732
Emancipation Proclamation
10
Why was white Leo Frank lynched by the Knights of Mary Phagan
They hated that he killed a young white girl
He whistled at a white girl on the street
Antisemitism
He made a white girl work with a black man
11
This group of people were the absentee rulers of Georgia for it's first two decades as a colony
Trustees
The Georgia Council
Oglethorpe's legion
King George's Court
12
It costs Mr. B $7 to make a t-shirt and he sells it for $15. He made what on the sale?
Debt
Savings
Profit
Income
13
Without this document written by Alexander Stephens, the Compromise of 1850 would have failed
The Compromise of 1850
The Georgia Platform
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
14
What U.S. president is best represented by the angel?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
15
In this land giveaway, people put their names in large barrels to be chosen at random
Land hand out
Land lottery
Headright system
Distribution of land
16
The Trail of Tears happened under the watch of this Cherokee chief.
Sequoyah
Austin Dabney
John Ross
William McIntosh
17
Helped by the Freedmen's Bureau newly freed slaves voted primarily for what political party?
Torries
Republicans
Democratics
Whigs
18
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. constitution granted all of the following except
Separate but equal
Right to vote for all
Equal protection for all
Abolished slavery
19
Led by Tom Watson in Georgia and supported poor farmers, initially both black and white
Populists
Republicans
Whigs
Democratics
20
Georgia provided which of the following the the U.S. war effort in WWII
Bell Bombers
Nuclear power
Liberty Ships
Training Forts
21
Slave who saved Elijah Clarke in Battle of Kettle Creek
Alonzo Herndon
Homer Plessy
Nancy Hart
Austin Dabney
22
This Creek leader was killed by his own people for selling their land to the Americans.
John Ross
William McIntosh
Austin Dabney
Sequoyah
23
She ran an outpost selling to traders and spoke both Yamcraw and English.
Nancy Hart
Rebecca Felton
Mary Musgrove
Rosalyn Carter
24
When a bill is first presented in the legislature it first is sent where?
To the floor for a vote
To a committee focused on the issue
The governor's desk
The other house for a vote
25
This branch is called the General Assembly in Georgia and Congress in the U.S.
Judicial
Executive
Legislative
Juvenile
26
In Georgia, this voting process was the only one the mattered for much of the 1900s
General Election
County-unit voting
Governor's Election
Primary
27
What New Deal program did Roosevelt conceive of on his visits to Warm Springs
CCC
AAA
REA
FRD
28
These forms of debt-based farming recreated slavery-type conditioned on southern farms
Tenant Farming
Farm subsidies
Populism
Sharecropping
29
This bug kept Georgia from enjoying the roaring 20s and worsened the Great Depression
Cotton Spiders
War Weevil
Mosquito
Boll Weevil
30
When Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act he enforced it against what branch
Judicial
Juvenile
Legislative
Executive
31
Why is Georgia able to grow a large variety of crops across the whole state?
A moderate climate with a cooler north and a warmer south
Technology allows many crops to grow in new places
Large bodies of water located throughout the state
Rich soil perfect for cotton
32
This branch of government decides if laws passed are constitutional
Juvenile
Executive
Judicial
Legislative
33
Carl Vinson wanted the Navy to be big earning him this nickname.
Father of the Might Navy
Father of the Navy theaters
Father of the Two-Ocean Navy
Father of the U.S. Navy
34
This group built large religious and social mounds at places like Etowah.
Woodland Indians
Archaic Indians
Mississippian Indians
Paleo Indians
35
Colquitt, Brown and Gordon controlled the politics of Georgia in the 1900s and were called this
Bourbon Triumvirate
The Three Peaches
The Triple Threat
Georgia's Mighty Trio
36
Places like Rock Eagle were built by this early Native American group.
Archaic Indians
Mississippian Indians
Woodland Indians
Paleo Indians
37
Home of a deadly Confederate prison camp during the Civil War
Gettysburg
Andersonville
Battle of Chickamauga
Antietem
38
This man helped James Oglethorpe figure out the best place to found his first colony
Sequoyah
Pocahontas
Tomochichi
William McIntosh
39
This governor's death led to three people claiming Georgia's governorship in 1946.
Eugene Talmadge
Ellis Arnall
Herman Talmadge
Melvin Thompson
40
A political movement that supported farmers' rights against big-city idustrialists
Republicans
Whigs
Populists
Democratics
41
Helped by the Highland Scots, this founding reason for Georgia was a major help to England.
Military Defense
Economy
Charity
Religious freedom
42
This branch of government is in charge of enforcing the laws and in Georgia sets the budget
Legislative
Juvenile
Judicial
Executive
43
The first peoples in North America who did most of their hunting by stabbing their food.
Mississippian Indians
Archaic Indians
Paleo Indians
Woodland Indians
44
Spending more money than a person has creates this.
Debt
Income
Profit
Savings
45
Georgia's White Primary was an indirect form of this practice?
Disenfranchisment
Candidate selection
Separate but Equal facilities
Jim Crow laws
46
Despite urging Georgia to stay in the U.S. at first, this man became VP of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Alexander Stephens
William Sherman
Austin Dabney
47
Led by Henry Grady, Georgia began to market what part of the state to Northern industrialists
Savannah
Augusta
Atlanta
Macon
48
The precedent set in this case allowed for the mass expansion of Jim Crow laws
Worchester v. Georgia
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Dred Scott Case
Brown v. Board
49
Why is it noteworthy that the Coastal Plains were once submerged under ocean water?
It's one reason the soil is so good for agriculture
It explains the sharp elevation decline at the Fall Line
It explains why Georgia's state fossil is the sharkstooth
50
These two men debated and disagreed about how best to improve black lives in the early 1900s
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr.
W.E.B. DuBois
John Hope
51
This person presides over the larger legislative body in the General Assembly
Chair of the Senate
Speaker of the House
Lt. Governor
The governor
52
The man was active result of the efforts for blacks to vote during the Civil Rights Movement
Maynard Jackson
Benjamin Mays
Lester Maddox
Ellis Arnall
53
From Plessy v. Ferguson until Brown v. Board what principle stood as the law in the U.S.
Slaves are property
Separate but Equal
Cherokee have the right to their land
Separate is inherently unequal
54
Who would have said, "Let us sell our land and grow the crops we want!" during Trustee Georgia?
Highland Scots
Malcontents
Spanish
Salzburgers
55
Georgia was the inspiration for many of this president's New Deal programs
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
56
This region of Georgia is a great place to begin a hike to Maine
Piedmont
Appalachian Plateau
Blue Ridge Mountains
Ridge and Valley
57
This man landed on the Yamcraw Bluff hoping to establish an English colony in Georgia
Hernando de Soto
Tom Watson
James Oglethorpe
Austin Dabney
58
This woman was a female suffragist and the first female U.S. Senator
Nancy Hart
Mary Musgrove
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Rosalyn Carter
59
This first black president of Morehouse College followed the philosophy of W.E.B. DuBois
John Hope
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Alonzo Herdon
60
Jim Crow Laws applied to what aspects of black life in the South
Barbershops
Family Relations
Theaters
Schools
61
Martin Luther King, by demanding equality immediately for blacks, followed the beliefs of who?
William Hartsfield
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Lester Maddox
62
William Hartsfield led a moderate coalition of Atlanta politicians and nicknamed Atlanta this.
A modern American city
The city open to all
The peaceful Southern city
The city too busy to hate
63
This is the amount of money a person makes in a period of time
Profit
Income
Debt
Savings
64
This group developed pottery and began to settle down and develop religions focused on animal.
Paleo Indians
Archaic Indians
Mississippian Indians
Woodland Indians
65
This founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company also worked as a barber in Atlanta
Henry McNeal Turner
Alonzo Herdon
John Hope
Martin Luther King, Sr.
66
The mineral springs in Warm Springs Georgia helped Franklin Roosevelt's...
Polio
Fighting strength
Powerful speech voice
Knee issues
67
This group hated the Trustees ban on alcohol, slavery and Catholicism (mostly slavery)
Twelve Angry Men
Malcontents
Salzburgers
Highland Scots
68
This founding reason for Georgia was moderately successful compared to South Carolina at first.
Economy
Military Defense
Charity
Religious freedom
69
Adding this position to the executive branch partially led to the Three Governor's Controversy
Governor
Vice President
President
Lt. Governor
70
This system is designed to apply laws to people under the age of 17 in Georgia
Juvenile
Executive
Judicial
Legislative
71
The primary political parties in the United States (more than one correct answer)
Republicans
Whigs
Populists
Democratics
72
Abraham Baldwin was the first president of this university
Harvard
University of Georgia
Georgia Tech
Yale
73
This document did not allow the Federal government to tax the states and was changed
U.S. Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Charter of 1732
74
Under this system, workers use owners' land and give them the crops and share the profits
Sharecropping
Farm subsidies
Populism
Tenant Farming
75
The whites-only primary allowed this political party to disenfranchise black voters in Georgia
Independents
Republicans
Democrats
Tea Party
76
Jim Crow is a fancy term for what behavior
Disenfranchisement
Segregation
Racial Violence
Antisemitism
77
This man pointed a gun at blacks to keep them from his store & later became Georgia's governor
Hamilton Holmes
Lester Maddox
Benjamin Mays
William Hartsfield
78
To run for this office you must be at least 30 years old.
State senator
Governor
State representative
Supreme Court justice
79
Georgia was late to join on to this fight for colonial independence.
Revolutionary War
French and Indian War
Spanish American War
Boston Tea Party
80
This is the reason Atlanta was able to become the capital of Georgia.
Film Industry
Railroad lines
Hosting the Olympics
Peaceful School desegregation
81
Required during Reconstruction for Confederate states to rejoin the U.S.
High voter turnout in a presidential election
Official apology for the Civil War
Adoptions of 13th, 14th and 15th admendments
Payment of reparations
82
The separation of powers in this document gave most of the power to the original 13 states.
Charter of 1732
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
U.S. Constitution
83
Gwinnett, Hall and Walton all committed treason when they did this.
Signed the Declaration of Independence
Crossed the Appalachian Mountians
Helped write the U.S. Constitution
Dumped Tea in Boston Harbor
84
"Since my dad was elected governor, I should be appointed governor!" who might have said?
Eugene Talmadge
Melvin Thompson
Ellis Arnall
Herman Talmadge
85
The party that created the white primary as a form of disenfranchisement
Torries
Republicans
Democratics
Whigs
86
Cherokee became a written language when this leader created a syllabary for the spoken words
Sequoyah
John Ross
Austin Dabney
William McIntosh
87
Who might say, "Our people should focus on labor skills in order to improve our lives now."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
John Hope
88
Based on the picture, what might Manifest Destiny mean?
Moving West is good for all people
The march West is inevitable because of European power
Angels with guns lead the way
Technology gives some power over others
89
Reynolds, Ellis and Wright?
The outspoken leaders of the Malcontents
The first Trustees of Georgia
The Hawks' Big Three
Georgia's Three Royal Governors
90
This war created the atmosphere of Americans vs. English in Colonial America
The Civil War
Revolutionary War
The War of 1812
The French and Indian War
91
In 1956, Georgia changed its flag to this what explicit reason?
To honor Georgia's history
As a sign of support of Massive Resistance
To celebrate the Civil War centennial
To show Georgia as an open, welcoming state
92
The Knights of Mary Phagan rose up following the murder conviction of what Jewish man
Alonzo Herdon
Homer Plessy
Leo Frank
Martin Luther King, Jr.
93
During this post-Civil War period, Henry McNeal Turner was a successful politician
Centennial
Reconstruction
Antebellum
Sharecropping
94
Checks and balances allows what to happen in Government?
It lets each branch balance their own budgets
It keeps allows each branch some power over another
It allows the courts the final say
It lets the executive write checks and balance the budget
95
The Intolerable Acts, The Stamp Act and the Proclamation of 1763 were all results of what?
French and Indian War
Merchantilism
King George III's anger at the colonies
The Post Office
96
This New Deal program gave farmers money to not grow food.
AAA
CCC
FRD
REA
97
Peaceful desegregation of schools helped this mayor sell major sports teams to come to Atlanta
Lester Maddox
Ivan Allen Jr.
Ellis Arnall
William Hartsfield
98
Party of Lincoln that fell out of favor in the South until 1980
Democratics
Republicans
Torries
Whigs
99
This is how people build wealth and avoid debt on expensive purchases
Income
Profit
Savings
Debt
100
These people take on debt and take a risk to start a business.
Risk managers
Entrepeneurs
Investment Bankers
Debt Collectors
101
This established the 36.30 parallel as the line separating free and slave states.
The Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Georgia Platform
Missouri Compromise
102
Expanding business opportunities and keeping negative news at bay was the goal of this mayor
Ellis Arnall
William Hartsfield
Herman Talmadge
Carl Vinson
103
To run for this office you must be at least 25 years old.
State representative
Supreme Court justice
State senator
Governor
104
This three-day Civil War battle was the largest battle ever fought in Georgia
Antietem
Andersonville
Battle of Chickamauga
Gettysburg
105
This group discovered 60 percent of Georgia's wanted no integration of schools
Moderate Coalition
Organization for school desegregation
Integration of Schools Committee
Sibley Commission
106
At Morehouse college this man helped Martin Luther King Jr. solidify his nonviolent ideas
W.E.B. DuBois
Ghandi
Benjamin Mays
Nelson Mandela
107
One of the expanded roles of the Lt. Governor in Georgia gives the person power over these.
Committee chairs
Voting laws
The state budget
The state militia
108
Breaking these laws could mean a juvenile is tried as an adult and can go to jail for life
Seven Deadly Sins
Five Liftetime Laws
Murder
Nine troublesome act
109
He might have said, "We need to protect our farming way of life by protecting our farmers."
Tom Watson
W.E.B. DuBois
Henry Grady
Booker T. Washington
110
This branch is called the General Assembly in Georgia
Executive
Judicial
Legislative
Juvenile
111
The Bourbon Triumvirate help power by appealing to all but the following classes of people
White women voters
New black voters
Big City Industrialists
Southern Farmers
112
Hernando de Soto was a Spanish conquistador best know for what?
Being the first European in Georgia
Assimilating the Mississipians into European culture
Training attack dogs
Leading a successful search for gold in Georgia
113
This was the first way Georgia attempted to grand land to families of settlers
Land lottery
Headright system
Distribution of land
Land hand out
114
Five states border Georgia, which one has the smallest border by area and no major interstate?
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Tennessee
115
In 1956, Georgia changed its flag to this what implicit reason?
To honor Georgia's history
As a sign of support of Massive Resistance
To show Georgia as an open, welcoming state
To celebrate the Civil War centennial
116
This was the second attempt at establishing a government following the American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
Charter of 1732
U.S. Constitution
Articles of Confederation
117
An example of the total war philosophy of General William Sherman
Burning of Atlanta
Antietam
Gettysburg
Battle of Chickamauga
118
Under this system, workers use owners' tools, land and provide labor to grow crops
Populism
Sharecropping
Tenant Farming
Farm subsidies
119
This was the most unsuccessful of the three reasons for the founding of Georgia
Religious freedom
Charity
Economy
Military Defense
120
Billy takes a lawnmower from his neighbor. In what court would his neighbor complain?
Criminal
Petty
Juvenile
Civil
121
This system of awarding votes by county gave disproportionate power to south Georgia
County-unit system
County-based politics
County-voting requirements
Disenfranchisement
122
The man was worked with the King during and was a result of the Civil Rights Movement
Benjamin Mays
Ellis Arnall
William Hartsfield
Andrew Young
123
Vinson thought funding this military branch helped both the U.S. and Georgia economically
Navy
Army
Air Force
Marines
124
This group of Germans came to Georgia seeking religious freedom and established Ebenezer.
Highland Scots
Mississippians
Salzburgers
Malcontents
125
The oldest public university in the United States
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Yale
University of Georgia
126
What would be one of the best places in Georgia to move to harness hydroelectric power?
Macon
Atlanta
Savannah
Milledgeville
127
Georgia was home to many military bases built in WWII thanks to this politician
Ellis Arnall
Richard Russell
Carl Vinson
Herman Talmadge
128
What court is needed to administer the last will and testimony in Georgia
Chancery
Probate
Juvenile
Superior
129
To keep the Union (U.S.) together, the Georgia Platform encouraged the acceptance of this
Missouri Compromise
Emancipation Proclamation
The Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
130
This Civil War plan aimed to hurt the economy of the Confederacy through trade restrictions
Total war
Naval blockade
Cotton gin
Article of Secession
131
To run for this office you must be at least 21 years old.
State senator
Supreme Court justice
State representative
Governor
132
William Sherman's path through Georgia following the battle of Atlanta
March to the Sea
Battle of Chickamauga
Gettysburg
Antietam
133
"God, Gold and Glory"
A chant shouted by Hernando de Soto
An equation for success in life
Three reasons for European exploration
The three most important resources of Georgia
134
A statutory law is passed by the legislature and is adjudicated by what type of court?
Supreme
Juvenile
Criminal
Civil
135
Democrats and Republicans are examples of what?
Teams
Voters
Political Parties
Presidents
136
This allowed for new states the right to chose to be slave or free using popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
The Georgia Platform
The Compromise of 1850
137
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were the first black students where
Atlanta public schools
The University of Georgia
At any Georgia School
Gwinnett County Schools
138
What did the Yazoo Land Fraud cost Georgia once discovered?
National respect as a pure state
The ability to vote for the next president
The right to slaves
All the land from the Chattahoochee to the Mississippi
139
California is a free state, D.C. stops the slave trade and the fugitive slave law is enforced
The Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
The Georgia Platform
Kansas-Nebraska Act
140
"People in each state should vote to pick whether to have slaves," is an example of what idea?
County-unit system
One man-one vote
Electoral politics
Popular sovereignty
141
A moderate governor of Georgia who balanced the budget and increased voting rights
Nathan Deal
Eugene Talmadge
Ellis Arnall
Sonny Perdue
142
The party of Georgia's only U.S. president, Jimmy Carter
Democratics
Republicans
Whigs
Populists
143
Federal officials who came to the confederate states during Reconstruction to help freed slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
U.S. Marshalls
Carpetbagger Society
Lincoln's leaders

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