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Georgia Studies (Georgia Milestones Review)
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A final review for the GA Milestones Assessment
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1
Which is NOT a major route of transportation in Georgia?
Hartsfield Jackson International Airport
subways
interstates
2
Name the job of the Executive branch of government.
Makes the law
Interprets the law
Enforces the law
3
What was one of the events that led GA into a depression?
rain
lack of workforce
boll weevil
4
About how many people were killed during the Holocaust?
2 million Jews as well as 2 million "undesirables"
1 million Jews as well as 1 million "undesirables"
6 million Jews as well as 6 million "undesirables"
5
What Civil Rights event was in Washington DC that included the I Have a Dream speech?
March on Washington
The Albany Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
6
What did the GA General Assembly change to protest Brown v. Board of Education?
the GA Constitution
the state capital
the state flag
7
What is the largest expense for GA's government?
workforce
health care
education
8
Who was taken from prison and lynched in public, after being accused of killing Mary Phagan?
John Hope
Jim Crow
Leo Frank
9
What was the 14th Amendment?
Granted citizenship to freed slaves
Gave women right to vote
Gave slaves right to vote
10
Who were the two main groups of Native Americans in Georgia during the early 1800s?
Creek & Cherokee
Sequoyah & Creek
Cherokee & Sequoah
11
As founders of important Georgia businesses, J. Pemberton, T. Cathy, and T.Turner are called...
employees.
laborers.
entrepreneurs.
immigrants.
12
What is NOT a voting requirements for GA?
citizen of the US
live in the county where you vote
at least 21 years old
13
Which branch of Georgia's government is the largest?
local branch
executive branch
legislative branch
judicial branch
14
What famous statement refers to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
"we have only begun to fight"
"shot heard around the world"
"the British are coming"
"day that will live in infamy"
15
Where is the largest single-container facility on the East Coast located?
Brunswick
Savannah
Jekyll Island
Columbus
16
Why have many of Georgia's cities and industries grown up alone the fall line?
Ships can travel northward from there to the northeast
The land along the fall line was fertile for farming.
Rapidly flowing rivers were a source of energy.
Railroads were already built there.
17
Who was governor of GA during the Great Depression and spoke out against FDR's New Deal?
Henry Grady
Eugene Talmadge
Dred Scot
18
What is the time after the Civil War called that allowed the south to reenter the U. S.?
Reconstruction
The New South
Cotton Era
19
What is the set of laws & governing document of the state?
GA Laws of Citizenship
GA Constitution
GA Bill of Rights
20
What 2 events caused the US to enter World War I?
Sinking of Lusitania & Bombing at Pearl Harbor
Sinking of Lusitania AND Zimmerman Telegram
Zimmerman Telegram & Bombing at Pearl Harbor
21
What was the US Supreme Court case that ruled slaves weren't citizens & therefore couldn't sue?
Plessy vs Ferguson
Dred Scot
Brown vs Board of Education
22
What Sup. Court case upheld the Jim Crow laws and kept segregation legal? (Separate but equal)
Brown vs Board
Jim Crow Law
Plessy vs Ferguson
23
Name the job of the Judicial branch of government.
Enforces the law
Makes the law
Interprets the law
24
How did the colonies benefit Great Britain economically?
The colonies imported raw materials from Great Britain.
The colonies manufactured goods for Great Britain.
The colonies traded with one another for goods and services
The colonies enabled G. Britain to manufacture goods to sell
25
First Spanish explorer to set foot in Georgia
Hernando DeSoto
James Oglethorpe
Henry Ellis
Austin Dabney
26
The "Georgia Platform" was a statement supporting....
slavery throughout the United States.
the Compromise of 1850.
popular sovereignty.
states' rights.
27
Who believed Af. Americans should take actions through political & social means, not economics?
W.E.B. Dubois
Alonzo Herndon
Booker T. Washington
28
Where does the government get most of its revenue?
exports
international business
taxes
29
Which person would make a drastic adjustment to a new physical and geographic environment?
A Georgia miner moving from the plateau region to W. Virgina
A logger moving from the Georgia mountains to northern Maine
A Georgia cotton farmer moving to Canada
A computer programmer moving from Boston to Atlanta
30
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is associated with the
"remembrance of his father."
eulogy given at his funeral.
Montgomery bus boycott.
March on Washington D.C.
31
What stance did the US take at the START of WWII?
opponent (opposed the war)
neutral
proponent (for the war)
32
What is not a branch of government?
Economic
Executive
Legislative
33
What was the centerpiece of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy?
international free trade
isolationism
human rights
containing communism
34
What are the most serious criminal crimes called?
insurrections
misdemeanors
felonies
torts
35
Georgia's signer of the Declaration of Independence
Button Gwinnett
Austin Dabney
Lyman Hall
George Walton
36
Who was the only president from Georgia?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Abraham Lincoln
37
Why did Hernando de Soto explore much of Georgia in 1540?
He was attracted by possible large gold deposits.
He wanted to build forts and missions in the area.
He was searching for the magical Fountain of Youth.
He believed he would find a passage to Asia through Georgia.
38
What was Franklin Roosevelt's plan to end the depression?
The Great Deal
The New Deal
The Better Deal
39
Who was the leader of the Civil Rights movement?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gandhi
Booker T. Washington
40
First African American Mayor of Atlanta.
Melvin Thompson
Benjamin Mays
Martin Luther King Jr.
Maynard Jackson
41
Which describes Booker T. Washington's belief?
Af. Americans should improve lives through economic means
Aff. Americans should improve lives by learning to read
Af. Americans should accept their place in society
42
Famous for his March to the Sea during the Civil War
William T. Sherman
Jefferson Davis
John Marshall
43
Which region believed the states should be able to govern themselves w-out interface with gov't
Northern States
Great Lakes states
Southern States
Pacific Coast states
44
One of the reasons for the colonization of Georgia was to serve as a buffer colony. Georgia was
a colony for settlement by the poor
an agricultural station experimenting with cotton plants
an outpost for pirates attacking Spanish galleons.
a military protective zone between British and Spanish
45
What was the first state to secede?
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
46
Interpreter between James Oglethorpe and Chief of the Yamacraw Indians.
Sequoyah
Nancy Hart
Mary Musgrove
47
What document, issued by Abraham Lincoln, freed all slaves in southern states?
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
48
What is the only region of Georgia that contains coal (a fossil fuel)?
Coastal Plain
Piedmont
Appalachian Plateau
49
When should people buy less on credit?
when interest rates are low
when they have no savings account
when they have no collateral
when they have other debts
50
What 2 houses make up the GA General Assembly?
House of Representative & Senate
Congress and House of Representative
Senate and Congress
